Next wave of military surplus?
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Coyote Ugly
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Joe6167 wrote"Oh and a while back there was a story about Russia melting down massive stockpiles of captured German guns (MG42, P38, etc.) to use the metal in a church or something."
A bit of sensationalizing there???? Easy to do though, considering the misinformation of the mainstream media.
There was a piece done on the evening news about the firearms used in that project. The reason there was such a hodge podge of different types sent to be smelted, was simply because they were getting rid of the junkers and non repairable pieces. They showed the firearms that were being melted down.
The metal was going to be cast into a stairway.
A bit of sensationalizing there???? Easy to do though, considering the misinformation of the mainstream media.
There was a piece done on the evening news about the firearms used in that project. The reason there was such a hodge podge of different types sent to be smelted, was simply because they were getting rid of the junkers and non repairable pieces. They showed the firearms that were being melted down.
The metal was going to be cast into a stairway.
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Only thing funny is that Poles shed the yoke of communism whereas Canadians are embracing it while cheering all the way.
People may need to satisfy their military interests by collecting badges and buttons in the future.
Likely NOT, they all have pins that were designed to poke the greatest amount of holes in the shortest amount of time!
FML
Poland still has a very SOCIALIST government and retained many of the regulations imposed upon them by the Soviets. However, they now have the right to abuse their own citizens, without outside direction.
I agree with you though, they are much better off now than they were before and if their plebes so choose, they can actually make changes happen by becoming politically involved.
Polish law allows firearm ownership on shall-issue basis for hunting, sport shooting and collection purposes and may-issue basis for self-defense purposes. With approximately 2.5 civilian firearms per 100 people, Poland is the 166th most armed country in the world. Only 0.6% of citizens have valid firearm permits.
In most of the former soviet satelite countries, guns licences was very hard to obtain. In my childhood in Romania I never seen any gun in civilian hand with the exeption of side by side soviet shotguns. To colect or use for target was almost imposible. This is why collecting and sporting guns is weak in East Europe. The second reason, some countries are poor. In Romania I was having a monthly payment of 300$ in 2004. In that time I cannot dream to have a single Mosin and money for ammo and range.
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Lots of police don’t surplus anymore, and we are already getting police surplus equipment, there just isn’t any big batches because they really don’t have that much gear to surplus in the first place.
