Saudi Crown Prince MBS - GetBigger? [Firearms related]

[Taffin]

 

A little chintzy maybe... Didn't Saddam have a gold plated AK47 too?  Is this perhaps an Arabic thing?  I have to admit it genuinely made me wonder how many of you guys had 'pretty' guns too...

The Crown Prince with the golden gun

Saudi's Mohammed bin Salman is given a gold-plated machine gun while visiting Pakistan amid bromance with Imran Khan despite accusation of killing Khashoggi hanging over him

  ■  Mohammed bin Salman visited Pakistan after investing $20billion in its economy
  ■  Saudi Crown Prince was given the country's highest honour by the President
  ■  Senators then handed him a gold-plated submachine gun as an additional gift
  ■  Comes despite international backlash over the killing of Jamal Khashoggi



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6721077/Saudis-Mohammed-bin-Salman-given-gold-plated-gun-visiting-Pakistan.html?ito=email_share_article-top

[IRON CROSS]

A little chintzy maybe... Didn't Saddam have a gold plated AK47 too? 

In Australian war museum 

[BB]

Usually when you see gold guns, Arab countries or Mexico is involved. They are the biggest buyers of them. Mexicans usually like them more ornate, the Arabs like super heavy plating. They've tried over the years, but gold guns hardly go over in Europe or America.

That being said the Goring had this tasteful Walther done up in gold -

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