[Teku]

🙏 just me paying my respects as history that should be preserved is just tossed away.

 

[Shoots High]

What is probably an original M1 folder carbine just brings me to tears. And there are so many other treasures in there too.

 

[BlackPowder]

Looks like an M1A1, a Gew 98, some other military Mauser, an MP40?, and I don’t know what that revolving carbine is but it looks really cool. Too bad. To a liberal anything that goes bang that is not operated by their own police or military is a hateful tool of oppression and violence that must be eradicated from the earth.

 

[Teku]

Looks like an M1A1, a Gew 98, some other military Mauser, an MP40?, and I don’t know what that revolving carbine is but it looks really cool. Too bad. To a liberal anything that goes bang that is not operated by their own police or military is a hateful tool of oppression and violence that must be eradicated from the earth.

If you look ing the top right box, theres a ww2 Thompson smg. its gone now

 

[Slider]

Is that an 03-A4 sniper rifle? Looks a lot like one. The sheer disrespect the French government are displaying here is amazing, Americans built, paid for, and fought to the death with those guns to free France and now they're gonna crush em all rather than see them returned to us. That country is a disaster.

 

[Whig]

There's a ton of wealth in just the slings, stocks, scopes, magazines and other parts. Wonder if anyone ever thought of that before dumping them in the crusher?

 

[Baltimoreed]

Those pinfires are extremely dangerous. All the rage of french gangbangers. What a waste. How much would just the parts be worth?

 

[Teku]

Those pinfires are extremely dangerous. All the rage of french gangbangers. What a waste. How much would just the parts be worth?

Are you talking about that revolving rifle at the top of the pile? Probably a couple grand at the least since not many were made to begin with.

 

[marshallj]

All the German weapons should be returned to Germany. They were stolen from German holiday makers who were visiting France back in the 1940’s.

 

[Story]

I'll take "Context for $100", Trebek
“We believe there are about 5 or 6 million weapons that are being kept in an irregular manner by our fellow citizens,” said Jean-Simon Merandat, Head of the Interior Ministry’s Central Service for Arms and Explosives. “Eighty to ninety percent of these weapons are in their possession due to an inheritance.”
France makes push to collect heirloom weapons across country | AP News

and this is all they got????

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[henrybucki1]

i feel a lot safer now.

 

[Pardt]

And the crime rate will be unaffected

 

[panzerfaust44]

This is what happens when you have socialist regimes....

 

[perchman]

What happens after the ^law abiding^ citizens of a country are completely disarmed?

 

[yesca]

there tax money at work

 

[19donose]

Sadly this is an all too common fate for these pieces of history

 

[Teku]

Sadly this is an all too common fate for these pieces of history

In particular in Europe since they have extremely strict gun laws that result in them either being completely destroyed, or turned into chunks of steel effectively to render them Inert instead of just doing a more sensible thing and exporting them to other places with less strict gun laws and a wide variety of collectors willing to pay for them :/

 

[perchman]

a more sensible thing and exporting them to other places with less strict gun laws and a wide variety of collectors willing to pay for them :/

That's not the mind set. They believe they know what's best for all people and their cultures. We must be looked after and taken care of. We're not capable of surviving with out "Their" assistance.

The destruction of history is the worst part of it. If the sayings are true...

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“History is not the past but a map of the past, drawn from a particular point of view, to be useful to the modern traveler.”

“History is the story of events, with praise or blame.”

“History is the study of all the world's crime.”

“History is who we are and why we are the way we are.”

These are some dark times.

 

[heckinohio]

Stupidity rating........France #1.....and so it goes.

PJH

 

[jkv45]

Not sure if it's possible, but why aren't people turning in just the bare receivers and keeping everything else?

Wonder if it needs to be a functioning firearm?

Didn't Australia make it possible to plug the barrel and make the firearm non-functional, instead of turning it in?

There was an article in the Garand Collectors Assn magazine a while ago about a guy from England that collected M1 Garands. They all were modified to the point where they were non-functioning, and couldn't be made useable again in any reasonable manner.

Just sad.