*** October 2011 Purchases ***

[theholeinthedonut]

Our Club has a U.S. GVT. Marine Corp M14 loaned to the club, by uncle sam for the CMP Matches. It gets shot a lot, just not on Full Auto. I have not personally ever shot it, but I have seen it, and held it once, after a match. How doe's the whole "collectors premit" thing work? I havent heard anyone talk about those before. I met plenty of guys with full auto stuff before, stuff from WWII also, but they shot thier stuff, on full auto too. They just go to those machine gun meets with lots of other people to do it. The NRA ranges as a rule don't allow full auto around here. I had seen a line officer after a match on an Air Force Base, take his old "grease gun" down to the line by hiself and fire away for a few minutes. That was a welcome sound, especially after a high power match.

I'm in Europe!

Location: "The southern shoulder of the Bulge"

[HILLBILLY-06]

I'm in Europe!

Sorry, I didn't even notice that. My bad, I wasn't trying to rub anything in, I goofed up and made an assumtion that you were in U.S. since you had the M1328 A1 Thompson. So i guess the whole collectors permit idea is so you can have it, just as long as you don't alter it, or use it.

[theholeinthedonut]

Sorry, I didn't even notice that. My bad, I wasn't trying to rub anything in, I goofed up and made an assumtion that you were in U.S. since you had the M1328 A1 Thompson. So i guess the whole collectors permit idea is so you can have it, just as long as you don't alter it, or use it.

No wurries my friend, there was no offense taken! The idea is that you can own historically relevant weapons, but you can not shoot them if they are full auto! My 1928 is still fully functional! My Garand and my M1 carbine, my 1911A1 etc. are on a sporters shooting license and I'm allowed to shot them at the range. The reason why we have such a provision is most probably the fact that, after the Battle of the Bulge, the whole northern part of our country was littered with small arms and military equipment. Most probably the legislator did not want to penalize the people who still had guns lying around at home and gave them a chance to have them legally registrated.