Atlanta PD MAC

[MitchWerbellsGhost87]

This has turned into a legendary thread!! Some great pics in here! I have a few of those Cobray diplomas, they are not filled out but have the exact same signatures in the red and blue pen, were they hand signed or copies???

 

[KickStand]

Those police photos were not taken at the farm, but the MAC range did have bleachers, I took a (nostalgic) picture of them because they were all rotted, and I just thought of all the activity there many years ago. I will see if I can find it.

Thanks for posting these old pictures guys!

What in the world is this gun?
It kinda looks like and M14/M1A receiver with a large OD barrel and large chassis for it. Maybe an m14 converted to a shotgun.

 

[Slowmo]

Thanks for posting these old pictures guys!

What in the world is this gun?
It kinda looks like and M14/M1A receiver with a large OD barrel and large chassis for it. Maybe an m14 converted to a shotgun.

Now that you mention it, I’m not sure I recognize any of those guns.

 

[KickStand]

Now that you mention it, I’m not sure I recognize any of those guns.

I think there’s two AA12’s (the OG models at least). They were developed at MAC by Atchisson. Also, if you notice there’s M16/15 22LR (Atchisson) conversions there.
Looks like a Velmet and maybe a Reising too.

The Garand/m14 action with the weird chassis, I can’t figure out. I’m guessing a shotgun conversion.

 

[MAC MAN]

Thanks for posting these old pictures guys!

What in the world is this gun?
It kinda looks like and M14/M1A receiver with a large OD barrel and large chassis for it. Maybe an m14 converted to a shotgun.

C.R.A.C.K. Rifle.

 

[ferndog1]

This has turned into a legendary thread!! Some great pics in here! I have a few of those Cobray diplomas, they are not filled out but have the exact same signatures in the red and blue pen, were they hand signed or copies???

Just copies

 

[KickStand]

C.R.A.C.K. Rifle.

Can you elaborate? A quick web search, revealed nothing.

 

[ferndog1]

Here is an article about Max A. with pictures of his guns and inventions.

Maxwell George Atchisson: Firearms Designer

By Frank Iannamico

archive.smallarmsreview.com

 

[ferndog1]

Can you elaborate? A quick web search, revealed nothing.

I just posted an article about it

 

[KickStand]

Here is an article about Max A. with pictures of his guns and inventions.

Maxwell George Atchisson: Firearms Designer

By Frank Iannamico

archive.smallarmsreview.com

Thanks man.

At first glance, it kinda makes me wonder if the Atkins accelerator guy, got his idea from Atchisson or at least some parts of it.

 

[herd118]

The weird ar-18 looking rifle is a very cool John P. Foote R68 that I have never seen in person but have been looking for it forever. And I believe that’s John P. Foote leaning over it.
https://smallarmsreview.com/john-p-foote-firearms-designer/

 

[Hill Raiser]

Is that a supressed M3 Attack Force Z style?

Love the BQM talk. That was an awesome catalog back in the mid 80’s. I was just thinking about BQM last week when I was putting my Assault Systems sub gun case away.

 

[104timberwolf]

I ran across this pic from the 1981 hostage situation at FBI Atlanta, and it’s a great shot of one of the APD MAC’s. I can’t imagine they’re still in inventory now, I last saw them was while in SWAT training circa 1991.
https://www.corrections1.com/produc...r-of-the-atlanta-fbi-office-VONcDNX5a0cY7L0S/
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[Slowmo]

The weird ar-18 looking rifle is a very cool John P. Foote R68 that I have never seen in person but have been looking for it forever. And I believe that’s John P. Foote leaning over it.
https://smallarmsreview.com/john-p-foote-firearms-designer/

The other rifle facing it looks kind of like the MG69 in that article.

 

[MitchWerbellsGhost87]

Is that a supressed M3 Attack Force Z style?

Love the BQM talk. That was an awesome catalog back in the mid 80’s. I was just thinking about BQM last week when I was putting my Assault Systems sub gun case away.

Yes it’s an m3 fitted with a sionics suppressor

 

[Howlin Mad]

The rifle with the magazine inserted, just in front of the guy leaning over opening the box of ammo, is a Bushmaster Assault Rifle.

 

[ferndog1]

More vintage MAC photos! The good old days!

Photo 008 the late Don Thomas co-author of the MAC MAN book, 0045 Max and John Foote, 0011 Max demoing his CRACK gun, 2 and 3 Max's CRACK rifle. Photos 10 and 11 are of one of the guns on the bleachers at the MAC range in a previous post, One of Atchisson’s curved barrel .22 rifle the rifle appears to have a very short barrel, but the legal-length 16-inch barrel extends to the end of the buttstock where it is loaded from the breech via a hinged buttplate.

 

[ferndog1]

List of ATL Mac serial numbers
And a picture of the bleachers mentioned in an earlier post where Mitch WerBell was sitting. I thought I had a close-up of them, but I don't. I just remember the wood was rotted. And I had a nostalgic moment thinking of the picture of Mitch and all the guns sitting on them many years prior.

 

[strobro32]

I always wanted one of his 3/4 scale 22LR Sterlings. I bought a magazine off GB.

.. or any of his 45 acp SMGs.

... or his M10A2 or 20% smaller M11A2.

 

[ferndog1]

John Foote guns, he had a drawer full of unfinished 22 cal Sterlings. And other cool stuff