cross-post from milsurps.com

[Claven2]

Thanks to our good friends at the UN and the "Safer Africa" group, the world is a safer place .

Now all those M1 garands and WW1 era (and earlier) Viterlies and Carcanos won't be killing innocents with all the nonexistent obsolete ammo that isn't floating around Africa.

Interesting that I count less than 20 AK's and SKS's combined. Guess those are clearly not threatening enough to be well represented at the "bonfire for safety" :ugh:

http://www.saferafrica.org/progs/safetySecurity/arms_management/destructions/ethiopia/ethiopia_photos.php

I feel safer already, don't you?

 

[Bigbill]

Break Out The Love Beads Children!

Yes, I feel safer already.

I also want to see fire rising from a pile of machetes, like those used to slaughter God-knows how many people in Rwanda. When that happens, the people of Rwanda will live together in peace and harmony. Maybe lawn bowling will become the preferred pastime of that country, as opposed to head chopping.

And when all fertilizer and diesel fuel in the world is incinerated, then never again will a man like Timothy McVeigh build a bomb that can cause so much pain and suffering. Right wing lunatics bent upon horrific slaughter will wring their hands in frustration, as the tools of their evil will be denied to them. No doubt, they will cease worrying about the New World Order conspiracy and begin taking self-help classes, like those featured on the Oprah Winfrey show.

A new age is upon us. I think I will treat myself to a cup of decaffeinated cappuccino to celebrate.

BB

 

[Coyote Ugly]

http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=166559

 

[Speckfire]

Yaaayyy Africa is safe now ....

 

[Scarecrow]

Jesus wept...

 

[Calum]

Methinks these people are actually stupid enough to deserve their fate at the hands of tyrants.

 

[prosper]

Thus protecting and increasing the value of the remaining milsurps out there

 

[ollie]

I see they even burned pointy sticks

 

[happydude]

Think of the children guys, think of the children.

 

[Bittermansbro]

Of the AK's and SKS's in the bunch, they were probably only there because they were beyond repair....

 

[manbearpig]

i doubt that fire even got hot enough to ruin the heat treat.
'woo lets char the stocks a little'

but seriously, shouldnt they be burning machetes?
or better yet machetes with the guerillas that used them still attached. if anything this is just disarming the populace so they can be even more easily butchered, way to make africa safer.

it would be safer if they distributed a few million old mosins so the people could protect themselves from the machete-wielding animals.

 

[Claven2]

Doesn't matter. The very same day, the metal remnants went into the metal smelter whose parking lot was used for the bonfire The "fire" was just to remove some of the wood "impurities" from the steel.

 

[Gomer]

Salt the developing world with 7.62x39 ammo loaded with .34 cal bullets and pistol powder.AK 47 use will decrease markedly.

 

[SKScanuck]

Good god there were some Garands in there....

I'm going to go hug my garand now...

 

[Claven2]

I thought you had more than one Garand SKSCanuck... including that early Winchester you're looking after for me...

 

[SKScanuck]

Yep, two, a Breda and the Winchester I'm holding on to you. November 1941 manufacture date. B4 the yanks really entered the war....

 

[Turkeyslayer 1300]

Thats Horrible!!!!!!

 

[ian_in_vic]

I wonder how many of those old rifles were turned in because their owners got a shiny new AK, and didn't need them any more. Ah progess, development and Peace In Our Time - ya gotta love it. Next week the pictures from that parking lot will be of the government massacre that followed the disarming of the populace