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by rsm2ndbtnLF » Fri Apr 30, 2010 11:54 am
1Shirt...... you'll learn quite a bit by keeping tabs on this thread. But the main thing is how America.. if the new spate of anti-gun laws carry.. will end up putting America like Europe = DEFENCELESS! The British Gun Laws have always been anti-gun, so getting an FAC is a minefield, and for the most part, if one is not a member of, or an applicant to join a bonafide Gun Club..... you've no chance of getting past the initial interview for FAC application.
In recent years, in fact.. only last year, (in line with their basic moronic dislike and false stereotype of honest gun owners) the Police and Home Office were stating that a great number of Deactivated (called De-Milled in the US) weapons pay a great roll in the countries gun crime! I never read such crap before as when I read that Police report. The Police in the UK basically are spineless, and massage the crime figures like nothing else. Anyway, I digress.
When I was a serving RM, I had quite a collection of WW1 service rifles, so was looking to keep them on my FAC. A month before I was due to leave the RM's, I received a letter from the county police chief where I was living at the time. It basically gave me till the end of my term in the RM's to dispose of my firearms collection before my release... or face imprisonment! I was a member of a civillian gun-club at the time. With the letter was a certificate that I was obliged to have the gun dealer sign when I had sold the weapons. All this basically meant was that I had no choise in the metter, and the rifles were vertually given away. Once the dealer saw ther police certificate... he saw pound signs in front of his eyes for he knew I was stuck in barrel as to the reason for my disposing of the weapons, and vertually had to accept his offer.
Unfortunatelly, those morons in Sacramento, CA, haven't actually thought about the wacky rules and regulations that they are desparatelly trying to pass. In fact, if anything were to happen to either themselves or anyone close to them as a result of their laws, they will be the first ones to cry wolf.. and then blame everyone but themselves! The NRA in the USA (i'm a fully paid up member) is doing a superb job, and long may it continue to the detriment of the wacko anti-gun lobby. Just as in the UK, the anti-gun lobby are targetting the honest law abiding, and not getting down to the route of the problem...... the criminal.
Sephton Allen.
RSM : 2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers [GWHS, Southern California].
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun, and in morning... WE WILL REMEMBER THEM!
