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Hardwood83:
I'll start the festivities. About 10yrs ago- in the midst of the Clinton AWB- I decided I wanted an AR. Being young, ignorant and foolish (is that redundant?) I bought the cheapest I could find: A new Hesse Arms HAR-15. If you are not familiar with the 'Hesse' brand google it or ask about it on ar15.com, where it's referred to as "the Yugo of firearms". To say it was a piece of crap is insulting to turds everywhere. The lower was cast aluminum and fit & finish was drunken monkey level. I attempted to fire about 3 mags through it- never more then 3 rounds without some sort of failure to load, fire or eject despite changing the mag. I learned my lesson, not having the heart to pass it on to some other poor sucker directly I sold it to a pawn shop for about a 20% loss. I have only sold a VERY few guns- but the Hesse hardly qualifies. They later changed their name (due to bad rep) to Vulcan and may have changed again. You've been warned. Who's next? 

FarmerRick:
Ok, I'll jump in next!!

About 15-16 years ago(long before I turned into a gun-nut), my new wife and I went to the Westfair, IA gun show.  I wanted to get her a little .22 semi-auto pistol, and by little...I mean cheap.  Well, I found the perfect specimen...a brand new chrome with pink grips Lorcin .22 pistol.  What a bargain for only $79 plus tax!!  I thought we had hit the jackpot...that is, until we tried to fire it.  Oh, it fired alright, but on the second or third round the firing pin also pierced the rim of the case and proceeded to powder-burn my index finger and that area between the finger and thumb.  Kinda hurt a bit.  I figured that it was just a bad round or something and decided to just go ahead and try to finish out the rest of the mag.  The rest of that mag went fine, but it happened twice more on the next mag.  So much for that day, I was done getting my hand burnt.  Luckily, I had no more problems with that gun as it was stolen less than a month later.  I hope the damn thing blew up in the thief's hand.

Lesson learned, 99% of the time you get what you paid for.

JimP:
While there are no BAD guns........ some are less good than others....... they need more work......

I have one such money pit: A bubba-ed Gewehr 88.  A guy gave it to me for free...... but fixing the headspace (reciever and bolt SN did not match), getting the hacksawed barrel squared/crowned, buying the unobtainium alloy ammo and then brass,bullets, and dies for it set me back further than a new Remmy 700 in a useful caliber would  have.......

.....come to think of it, I have a minor collection of such basket cases....... guns in need of a gun doctor, but fixing them would cost more than they are worth.........

bkoenig:
I bought a Chinese Type 53 Mosin for $35.  As Mosins go they're somewhat rare, but this one was worth precisely $35.  It was covered in Chinese dirt and the barrel had only a trace of rifling left.

Mikee Loxxer:
That would be my Ishapore Enfield 2A1 in 7.62X51. Does not feed from the magazine at all, has canted sights, and very generous headspace.

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