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Posted: 11/28/2004 7:03:13 PM EDT
These were turned in last month in  Edit: Sorry if I gave the impression that this was first hand . I got this picture here: www.defenselink.mil/photos/Oct2004/041011-N-4614W-084.html And I am looking for the story about the arms sales I read last week, no luck yet. |
I know we can't mail them home. The post office checks every package and gun parts are verboten. For those of us who have purpose built upper recievers i.e. longer range capable SPR type upper, this is going to pose a problem for us to get them home. Middle Eastern airports tend to get very agitated if you have one of these in your checked baggage. |
Do you think they have their own version of gunshow B.S.? This ak was used by Sadaam's latrine digger in his last ditch stand against the infidels. |
Cool, check out the RPK and RPDs on the right - Like finding Buried Treasure! |
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I understand the sentiment, especially in a recent war - but the trophies are kept for other reasons. Such as to remember the sacrifices made and the victory over ones foe. War trophies go back to the beginning of war. I collect WW2 Japanese weapons - many of them likely wounded or killed our boys, but when I hold one I think about the entire picture, what happened to the soldier that held it, what battle was it in, what soldier captured it and what did he have to go through to do it? They serve as historic relics of what happened. They call the Korean War the forgotten war - hell some people refuse to even call it a war. But I wonder how well current and future wars will be remembered by succeeding generations when we don't have historic artifacts to pass on and study. If you ask me as a historian (and collector) - it is a historic travesty that our boys (and girls now) are not at least allowed to bring back the non NFA weapons that they were allowed to bring home in every war up to the first Gulf War. Earl
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Quoted: I understand the sentiment, especially in a recent war - but the trophies are kept for other reasons. Such as to remember the sacrifices made and the victory over ones foe. War trophies go back to the beginning of war. I collect WW2 Japanese weapons - many of them likely wounded or killed our boys, but when I hold one I think about the entire picture, what happened to the soldier that held it, what battle was it in, what soldier captured it and what did he have to go through to do it? They serve as historic relics of what happened. They call the Korean War the forgotten war - hell some people refuse to even call it a war. But I wonder how well current and future wars will be remembered by succeeding generations when we don't have historic artifacts to pass on and study. If you ask me as a historian (and collector) - it is a historic travesty that our boys (and girls now) are not at least allowed to bring back the non NFA weapons that they were allowed to bring home in every war up to the first Gulf War. Earl +1.. |
...and I understand Marine snipers will take you out if they spot you dealing arms out of a car trunk... Least thats what happened a few months ago in a Baghdad Bazaar. |
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