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There was a threat earlier about a nice 1911 that was effectively destroyed, I had a similar experience. I was living in St.John's about 20 years ago. Back then we had to drop off and pick up res firearms at the local cop shop while they were being registered. Just as I was leaving a man and a woman carrying a Boys Anti tank rifle her father had brought back from the war and recently died. I offered to buy it then and there from them, there was nothing I could say or do to convince them, they were turning it in because they thought they could be arrested for having those "army guns".
I waited in my car and seen then make 5 trips with ammo cans and gun cases. Some of the guns were in what I learned later were military canvas cases and one transit case. God knows what they turned in.
I often wondered what they would say, if they knew what those "army" guns were worth.:(
Anybody with a similar experience?
 
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One of my grandfathers cousins who fought in the war had a Luger "bring Back". A few years before he died he turned it in to the cop shop.
 
Who says our population can't be brainwashed, eh?:rolleyes:

There were quite a few interesting toys brought in for disposal at the Kelowna RCMP detachment too. I can remember a loaded bazooka and a streetsweeper off of the top of my head.

One day at the detachment, I encountered an old widow that was bringing in her husbands handguns. She had a couple of mint Colt 1873 Peacemakers.

I said to her, "I hope you aren't bringing those in for destruction as they are worth a lot of money!":eek:

Thankfully, she was just bringing them in until her registration papers came through. She had no intention of giving them up.:cool:
 
MapleSugar said:
Who says our population can't be brainwashed, eh?:rolleyes:

There were quite a few interesting toys brought in for disposal at the Kelowna RCMP detachment too. I can remember a loaded bazooka and a streetsweeper off of the top of my head.

One day at the detachment, I encountered an old widow that was bringing in her husbands handguns. She had a couple of mint Colt 1873 Peacemakers.

I said to her, "I hope you aren't bringing those in for destruction as they are worth a lot of money!":eek:

Thankfully, she was just bringing them in until her registration papers came through. She had no intention of giving them up.:cool:
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On dire measures of nice historical pieces brought in for destruction I think Cops should be allowed to keep them if they want and respect them.
 
Gunslingr said:
Auction them off is a better idea. Give everyone (with a lisence) a chance.
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And re-arm the populace, comrade ? :D I think they surely want to do the opposite if our rights weren't in their way.

Really sad to hear about this happening. I have a family member who works in the department that receives firearms like this (not any Lugers or old milsurps) but they all go to one place in the end: metal smelter. Makes me shiver to think of all the beautiful prohibited milsurps that will be going this route in 50 or so years.
 
Nabs said:
And re-arm the populace, comrade ? :D I think they surely want to do the opposite if our rights weren't in their way.

Really sad to hear about this happening. I have a family member who works in the department that receives firearms like this (not any Lugers or old milsurps) but they all go to one place in the end: metal smelter. Makes me shiver to think of all the beautiful prohibited milsurps that will be going this route in 50 or so years.
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In 50 years ??? ha. try the next Liberal goverment.
 
I keep saying, if I only had the money to start up a non-profit museum to display these firearms that are bound for destruction. Some of them could even be used for the movies to generate enough revenue to keep it running.

I hate to see a perfectly good firearm destroyed, or even demilled.:puke:

Some guys can sell their prohib firearms off, but soon there won't be anyone with the proper licenses left. Eventually, they will have to go to either; a museum, movie prop room, or the smelter.:(
 
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Horror stories indeed....I know of a bring-back Thompson in superb condition c/w drum magazine that was tossed in a farm dugout in the early '60s, along with a very nice Luger........I did manage to acquire the accompanying M1 paratrooper (folding stock) carbine c/w original canvas leg pouch and Walther P38 c/w holster before they suffered the same fate.

I lost track of an excellent condition Schmeisser MP-40 (also a bring-back) - the guy who showed it to me, and let me handle it, later denied having it! That was more than 40 years ago, and I've often wondered what became of that one.

Among the 'bring-back-trophy' tales of woe was a very large cast-metal Nazi eagle, at least 24" wide that I found hanging on the wall of an abandoned farm house in the late 50's. Though tempted, I didn't take it, but later came to wish I had. Another trip to the same old house a few months later showed that some &$!#& had shot it to bits.

I always wondered how those guys managed to get that stuff smuggled home! They all came back by ship in those days, and it's unimaginable that their gear wasn't searched, and even less likely that 'nobody cared'. Maybe it was just 'don't ask/don't tell'. However they did it, I'm sure glad they did! I can't imagine how much history must have been heaved over the sides of returning troop ships.
 
I think their was a trick for pistols, just place pistol at the bottom of bag, when asked to dump your bag out, grab the pistol though the bag, keeping it from falling out. Also things were smuggled in other objects or equipment.
 
Tumbleweed said:
Horror stories indeed....I know of a bring-back Thompson in superb condition c/w drum magazine that was tossed in a farm dugout in the early '60s, along with a very nice Luger........I did manage to acquire the accompanying M1 paratrooper (folding stock) carbine c/w original canvas leg pouch and Walther P38 c/w holster before they suffered the same fate.

I lost track of an excellent condition Schmeisser MP-40 (also a bring-back) - the guy who showed it to me, and let me handle it, later denied having it! That was more than 40 years ago, and I've often wondered what became of that one.

Among the 'bring-back-trophy' tales of woe was a very large cast-metal Nazi eagle, at least 24" wide that I found hanging on the wall of an abandoned farm house in the late 50's. Though tempted, I didn't take it, but later came to wish I had. Another trip to the same old house a few months later showed that some &$!#& had shot it to bits.

I always wondered how those guys managed to get that stuff smuggled home! They all came back by ship in those days, and it's unimaginable that their gear wasn't searched, and even less likely that 'nobody cared'. Maybe it was just 'don't ask/don't tell'. However they did it, I'm sure glad they did! I can't imagine how much history must have been heaved over the sides of returning troop ships.
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I guess in Halifax when the troops came home usually the night before the ship docked the men were told when they disembarked they would be searched and if anything was found they would be detained for several weeks. Apparently there were splashes heard all night long from the stuff thrown overboard. When they did disembark no search, it was all a bluff. Quite a few ships were at anchor, lots of choice stuff down there.
I guess the guys who still have the stuff, called their bluff.
 
You would be really horrified to know how many go in the front door of the police station for destruction and go right out the back door into a police officers vehicle. I have first hand knowledge of more than one case of this.
 
Between this thread, guns on the EE I can't afford and all the anti plans that are exposed on this site, I can only handle CGN in small doses now. Too depressing.
 
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