French Surrender Firearms in Record Numbers During Government

[Sylvain]

I'd like to hear from our French resident member on this topic.

Meh. That's really a non-event.
It's the same thing in the US when some cities offer to "buy back" (not that they sold them in the first place) guns to gem them "off the streets".
They only collect junk guns that nobody used in the first place.
They don't get guns from gang members.
It has zero effect on so-called "gun crime".

That program is really for people who inherited firearms, or found them.
If they are not registered they can't legally keep them.
Of course the state is not telling those people that they could register those weapons if they wanted.

If you look at pictures of the guns collected in the last few days it's only old rusty semi-auto, or lever action, hunting rifles.

It's not the "hot stuff" illegally owned by many French citizens.
One guy was recently arrested for having several illegal guns.
That what they found:

Mostly full-auto modern military style weapons.

Most of those you can't even legally own in France (they would be NFA items in the US).
Heck some you can't even legally own it in the US either.

People who have access to that kind of firepower are not giving away their guns.

When people hear that guns have been taken off the streets they think about the last two pictures.

They don't think about a rusty shotgun that spent 20 years in a barn.

It's all about smoke and mirrors.

 

[Brad69]

Auftragstaktik or mission command in U.S./U.K. speak.

This is IMO why the French took a beating in WW2. Simply the Germans could take initiative at the lowest level. The French relied on a top down mission plan that was slow to adapt.

It didn’t help the French had basically lost a generation of men in WW1.

Little known fact the French had better weapons and more of them.

 

[Sylvain]

If you look at pictures of guns "taken off the streets" from "buy back" programs in US cities you always find the same junk.

Old rusty broken revolvers, and some high point pistols.

I don't think any gang member in Chicago is carrying any of them.

You won't find a Glock with a 33rds mag in those pictures.

It's probably a good deal if you're offered $200 for any of those.

 

[Ingomike]

Reminds me of something G. Gordon Liddy said on his show several years ago.

A couple of years ago????

Reading is hard. Several and couple are not synonymous…. LOL

 

[edporch]

A couple of years ago????

"... several years ago".

 

[Ingomike]

Reminds me of something G. Gordon Liddy said on his show several years ago.

He spoke of a Frenchman he knows who told him that after WW1 and the huge losses France suffered of the young men at that time killed in the war, that in the time after that leading up to WW2, the young men were raised more with a philosophy of pacifism and avoidance of war.

In the meantime, the German young men were raised in a more militaristic manner to stand up and fight for their country.

So when WW2 broke out, the French young men who on average had been raised to be more pacifist, were at a disadvantage when suddenly faced with a German invasion.

The French had their gene pool was first decimated at Waterloo, a huge chunk of their males were wiped out, but this was just a prelude to the wars of a hundred or so years later that basically eliminated the strongest fighters in much of Europe, and left the weak to rebuild. It is those weak that ushered in socialism…

 

[Hkindiana]

The first picture in post #61 shows a nice WWII German 98K Mauser Rifle, and a U.S. WWII 1911A1 pistol, so they aren’t ALL ”junk guns”

 

[actaeon277]

none....our soldiers brought them back home after ww2.

if they're smart the gov would have a pile of hi points missing the firing pins

Pretty sure there were rifles to be found.
Bodies don't police up their own rifles.

 

[KittySlayer]

It has zero effect on so-called "gun crime".

So if 1% of men whack off their penises it will have zero effect on rapes?

 

[DoggyDaddy]

So if 1% of men whack off their penises it will have zero effect on rapes?

Pretty sure way more than 1% of men have done that... Especially when they were younger.

 

[KellyinAvon]

If you look at pictures of guns "taken off the streets" from "buy back" programs in US cities you always find the same junk.

Old rusty broken revolvers, and some high point pistols.

I don't think any gang member in Chicago is carrying any of them.

You won't find a Glock with a 33rds mag in those pictures.

It's probably a good deal if you're offered $200 for any of those.

Now in the top picture, the revolver with the cylinder missing appears to be a cap and ball/black powder pistol. Gang bangers not wanting to leave shell casings are kickin it old school. REALLY old school.

The bottom picture, left side towards the middle: Ruger Single Six?

 

[2in1evtime]

Well that's probably not even half the firearms in Indiana alone

But according to INGO a large percentage of those are at the bottom of some body of water

 

[bobzilla]

I took my shoes off for this one. After that I grabbed the $5 Casio calculator...

You do realize that both your phone and computer have calculators on them. No need for a clunky half functioning solar powered calculator

 

[KittySlayer]

You do realize that both your phone and computer have calculators on them. No need for a clunky half functioning solar powered calculator

But solar power is so cool nowadays.

Plus the government can’t track you on your Casio calculator.

 

[bobzilla]

But solar power is so cool nowadays.

Plus the government can’t track you on your Casio calculator.

Oh you think so huh? You know why those solar powered calculators never work in the sunlight? Those “solar panels” Are just a camera, antenna and processor transmitting to a satellite

 

[jwamplerusa]

No need for a clunky half functioning solar powered calculator

I will have you know that proper clicky keys are NOT clunky, and my calculator does NOT have a solar thingy! Hmmff, I think I still have one that uses a 9V.

 

[duanewade]

But according to INGO a large percentage of those are at the bottom of some body of water

One of worst boating accidents I've ever had and I lost every firearm I had except for my pellet rifle and muzzleloader.

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[KittySlayer]

Oh you think so huh? You know why those solar powered calculators never work in the sunlight? Those “solar panels” Are just a camera, antenna and processor transmitting to a satellite

OMG that must be true since you didn’t use purple.

 

[KellyinAvon]

You do realize that both your phone and computer have calculators on them. No need for a clunky half functioning solar powered calculator

Sleek, fully functional calculator, and it's a real calculator. On the phone? That's not a real calculator, that's an app. If I can't do it with my $5 Casio I go straight to Excel.

Well, you went there, here's the story:

My Texas Instruments TI-25 (which I got in 1999 when the Air Fore sent me to school to be a Manpower and Organization Analyst) died from the dust in Qatar shortly after I returned in 2005. So I grabbed a $5 Casio since I needed a calculator. An old Colonel I worked for at Air Combat Command always had one of those Texas Instruments small desktop (you can hold it in your hand, but it's a desktop) calculator and could break the most complicated stuff down to a level he could check the math with his $5 calculator. I figured if a $5 calculator was good enough for this old Colonel, it was good enough for me.

My $5 Casio from 2005? Not to be confused with my $5 Casio here at home? It's on my desk at work, I use it every day.

 

[Creedmoor]

So if 1% of men whack off their penises it will have zero effect on rapes?

Whack off or cut off?