Why?!!!? WHYYYYYY!!!!!!????

purple said:
The longevity of some of these things is pretty amazing. For instance, when I was on the Golan in 1979 some of the Finnish officers were still carrying issue Lugers. At the same time the Austrians were still using WW2 vintage P38s. One of the IDF LOs was still packing an M1 Carbine in his jeep.

The Turks are also champion conservers of old ordnance. When I spent some time in E. Turkey in 1989 the Turkish Army looked like a bit of a WW2 replay-vintage WW2 deuce-and-a -halfs, Long Tom 155 guns, and even locally made M1A1 Thompson SMGs. The guards at the Turkish Army Museum in Instanbul were still shouldering No4 LEs at this same time. Come to think of it I saw various gate guards in Egypt armed with No4s in 1979.
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After flying into a small airport in Kenya in 2009, I noticed one of the security guards was carrying a Martini Henry!!! :eek: I tried to take his picture, but he became extremely agitated, and yelled at me that no pictures are to be taken of him... :(

Then, just before leaving I met up with another security guard/soldier at a mall, and got a picture with him and his G3! Still don't know where that picture went... :redface:
 
I wonder how many Syrian rebels shot their eye out trying to fire other calibres in these???? They should just close that sea container and send it here...where it may end up on Storage Wars. That would be an epic episode....
 
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