{"id":5364,"date":"2010-07-08T02:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T02:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2010\/07\/08\/bubbas-franken-rifle\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:11:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:11:17","slug":"bubbas-franken-rifle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=5364","title":{"rendered":"Bubba&#8217;s Franken-Rifle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you just have to shake your head wondering what the heck they were thinking. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gibbsrifle.com\/tunnel_buster.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Tunnel Buster from Gibbs Rifle<\/a> is one of those things.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/p009_1_01.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/p009_1_01.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It mates the cut-down barreled action of a Springfield 1903A3 with the front sight\/flash hider\/bayonet lug of an Enfield No. 5 Jungle Carbine and puts it all in a plastic stock. And then they publicize it with this drivel:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Had &#8220;Carbine&#8221; Williams not invented the M1 Carbine, who would doubt that the U.S. military would have shortened the 1903A3 in a similar fashion to issue to paratroopers jumping at Ste. Mere-Eglise in World War II, Marines at Inchon and Tunnel Rats in Vietnam.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;As a licensed collector of Curios and Relics, all I can say is have they no shame?<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you just have to shake your head wondering what the heck they were thinking. The Tunnel Buster from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[977,4658],"class_list":["post-5364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-curios-and-relics","tag-gibbs-rifle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5571,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364\/revisions\/5571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}