Posted on 12/01/2022 4:37:12 PM PST by nickcarraway
French gun owners were handing over their weapons at police collection points across the country this week as part of a campaign to round up unlicensed firearms, often heirlooms lying in attics or forgotten at the back of cupboards.
Gun ownership in France is nowhere near as prevalent as in the United States, for instance, and gun crimes are relatively rare, but France is keen to limit the number of illegally owned firearms - as many as six million, authorities estimate.
"They were my dad's and I didn't know what do with them," Lionel said at a police station in Nice in southern France where he handed over his weapons. "I don't really like guns, and since there's a way to get rid of them cleanly, there's a moment you have to get rid of such souvenirs."
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Betting there were weapons turned in that should be in a museum.
Guns are icky.
Suggestion was made
Et mets-toi à genoux.
They said “Oui” and did so.
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English: And get on your knees.
The French are making this too easy: no one is better at dropping weapons then the French.
Short memories.
Didn’t they give most of them to the Germans in 1940?
The French have been maligned for a very long time.
how long have the yellow vests been calling for freedom vs
how long US “Freedom Fries” have been decrying the anti freedom creeps
I knew a guy who had a ww1 museum. no one cared except for the french.
At least Navy Arms got hold of a bunch of Lee-Enfield rifles in France recently, No. 4 Mk 1, I believe. I covet one, but I don’t really want another caliber to deal with.
In the next war the French government will put out a call for Genoese crossbowmen as they did in the Middle Ages as they cannot trust their own people with real weapons.
.303, right?
Could the Islamist invaders ask for anything better than unarmed natives?
And to think, in the movie “IS PARIS BURNING?” there is an old man shooting at the Germans with an old Vetterli rifle.
I bet his grand kids turned that rifle in to the police.
“Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion.”- General Norman Schwartzkopf.
7.5x54mm, although Century Arms does some...”work”...and converts them to .308 Winchester after importation. I’d love an old French MAS 36, but not if it was converted. Same with an old Lebel, or a Berthier.
Remember, they will send proxies to do it for them.
Local police. Local sheriffs. Local swat teams if they think you will be not welcoming.
People need to think about who needs to really be reached out and touched, first.
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