rbmacparts.com is not just another parts vendor. RB MAC Parts is an outgrowth of our MAC Service and Repair Business.

I have 40+ years experience with MACs and many other post War automatic weapons. I am an Ingram SubMachine Gun Armorer, an American Gunsmithing Association Gunsmith, and Certified DuraCoat Applicator. My firearms business is parts and service for Ingram and Atchisson Patent Open Bolt SubMachine Guns (commonly called MACs or Ingrams) and Atchisson Patent Closed Bolt Semi-Autos (erroneously called Cobrays).

I was born in the Ozark Mountains in 1946. And, in less politically correct times, I learned to shoot in the Boy Scouts at age ten.

Later, my high school sweetheart and I spent hours on the dock blowing the heads off of baby snapping turtles with a .410/.22 O&U. At least that's what we were doing some of the time. (I shoulda' married that girl!)

I worked my way through high school and college as a portrait painter, illustrator and graphic artist, and made enough money to buy a Healey and a Jag as well as pay for school. When I moved to the big City of Kansas I got hooked on long legged women and motorcycles. Motocross bikes (when it was all still dirt field amateur stuff) CZ's, Puchs, Bultacos, et al. I married the wrong long legged woman and tried to kill myself several times on my scooters!

By the late '60s I was a full fledged ad agency whore and prime draft meat. When the D.O.D. came knocking at my door, my employer, a former OSS man, found me a consulting job for another ex-OSS veteran, with a now defunct arms manufacturer. Thus fulfilling my obligation to the nation, without actually serving in the military, and garnered me a 4F draft status. That job did not, however, keep me out of the tropics, and gave me a certain familiarity with suppressed weapons and sub machine guns (also a certain familiarity with infections of the middle ear and lower G.I.!)

Always an adrenaline junky, I went into sports car racing in the mid 70's and spent 20 years spending all my money and spare time building and racing prototypes until I wasn't a young man anymore, and the urologist gave me the choice of racing or peeing. That was a tougher choice than you might think!

Since 1971, I've run my own advertising creative consulting business as designer, illustrator, visualizer and creative director, working on stuff for folks like: Blockbuster, DeBeers, Hallmark, Kodak, Porsche, Rolex, Russell-Stover, Scuduria Ferrari, and Wal-Mart.

When the Wonder Nine high capacity 9mm auto pistols started lighting up the handgun market in the mid 80's, I dug out all my old High Powers, and got back into firearms. I started doing a little teaching combat pistolcraft, (another book project yet to be finished) and a local gun show every so often. I was shooting 1000-3000 rounds a month.

All the High Powers are gone, but I still have a gun safe full of MACs, CZ75s and AKM74s.

Oh yea. Along the way, I got rid of the wrong long legged woman and, in 1994 I stumbled upon and married the right redheaded life partner!

In October 2000 Lynette (the aforementioned redhead) and I launched RB Graphics to market my exclusive line of firearms graphics.

We now ship all over the world. The graphics business opened the door to so many interesting new friends at firearms manufacturers all over America: CMMG, CZ USA, Heckler & Koch, SIGArms, plus the RCMP.

In 2004 I decided to try and make a living at an old craft nobody had really cared about, until the last 10 years or so. MACHINE GUNS. Ingram submachine guns in particular.

We launched RB MACstuff (now rbmacparts.com) to market parts and services for Ingram Patent Open Bolt SubMachine Guns, and Atchisson Patent Closed Bolt Pistols. I now offer an exclusive line of upgrades for Ingram SubMachine Guns, as well as all the other "MACs".

As with the firearms graphics business, we now ship all over the USA, to NATO contractors in Europe and operators like Blackwater. The MAC is truly the original PDW (Personal Defense Weapon).

The MAC business really took off in September '08. December '08 was our best month to date.

A little panic and revolution is good for the soul. Thomas Jefferson believed our revolution would be just like the French. A continuing process. One revolution after another. I've never cared for the French...neither did Georgie Patton.

The January 2010 NSSF ShotShow, the firearms industry trade show, was a snore. Same-o same-o. Fat cats makin' deals at the little guy's expense. The weekend after ShotShow, I hosted a MAC Armorer's School and Tactical SubMachine Gun Shoot. The Vegas Corps of Engineers desert range complex is fabulous.

We've tried to put together more MAC Schools I hope to do another soon, at CMMG's Fire-for-Effect Range, in central Missouri. Watch the Calendar Page for this event.

In 2011, I finally got around to rewriting the RB MAC Books, expanding them to be what I had originally envisioned. Plus Armorer's Handbooks for ALL the various MACs, open and closed bolts.

If nothing else, and it don't rain, I plan on seein' you all at the Oklahoma Full Auto Shoot every year or so. If the roads aren't closed and patrolled by Frenchmen wearing blue helmets.

RB

October 2011