Americans never give up your guns

[peyton]

I was scanning the news and came across this article from Pravada and I wanted to post it.

I never realized the extent of gun control in the Soviet Union/Russia until this last Christmas. My brother in law married a Russian women and we were visiting them. Mike, had bought a Mosin Nagant 91/30 from a friend and we were admiring it.

I commented to his wife that perhaps she was familiar with the rifle and that it could be that her grandfather might of used it in the "Great Patriotic War" against the Nazi's.

She looked confused for a moment and then told us that she remembered the stories of the war but no soldiers that fought in the war were allowed to own guns afterwards. I explained that the rifle was the finest weapon made in Russia and would be used to protect her home and it would last to protect her great grandchildren 100 years from now.

Americans never give up your guns - English pravda.ru

 

[Old 44 Guy]

I remeber a woman in our church. She was a German war bride married to an American of German ancestry that met while he was overseas during WW2. We had a terrific thunder & lightning storm one night [Saturday] and when we picked her up to go to church on Sunday she said she hadn't slept at all. We asked her why. Marianne said the thunder reminded her of the bombing in Berlin when she was young. Marrianne is gone now but the memory of her saying that clings to my thoughts even today

 

[luangtom]

My grandmother told me at age 10 to never give up our arms. It took only 100 Nazi soldiers to take over their town in Slovakia in the late 1930's, without firing a shot. First came registration, then came confiscation of handguns, then armories for the long-arms and check them out for hunting and enumerate the ammo taken out and used and then....not one firearm was in the possession of any local citizens when they rolled into town. Pitch-forks and rakes with hammers and scythes are all they had.

Grandma's brother and brother-in-law died fighting for the Resistance. Another brother was blinded by the Nazis right after they raped and murdered his daughter. It was the last sight he ever saw.

I pledged an oath when I enlisted and when I was sworn-in as a LEO. It is not gonna happen on my watch.

 

[LVSteve]

Russian gun control has some odd effects. The Saiga rifles have a peculiar chamber so the brass gets an extra step after being fired. That way the authorities there can distinguish between shells from a Saiga and those from a military AK. When the Saiga came here lots of folk were scratching their heads when they first saw their fired brass.

 

[YogiBear]

Aloha,

As an American of Japanese Ancestry, I have friends and relatives who were interned.

I also have friends and relatives who were in the 442/100 during the war.

Many of us AJAs have ARs or similar and say Never Again.

I had to explain the internment to my Wife(German ancestry from Minnesota). She never really understood
what happened until I told her the entire story.

She was shocked because persons of German ancestry were never treated like that in Minnesota or else where.
She understood that it was a racial thing and was even more appalled.

I asked her if somthing like that happened again would she let me go or would she go with me.
She said, "That's what we have guns for"

I guess we're Not going.

 

[souperdoo]

My in-laws, born in America, were interned at Poston and Santa Anita, father-in-law was 442.

My grandparents were born in Germany, coming here ~1900. They farmed through the war.

Never again.

Tom

 

[johngalt]

An interesting tidbit about gun control in the Soviet Union:

Soviet subjects could own firearms, at least in some of the republics. Right before the fall of the Soviet Union, I remember seeing on the news stories about the Soviets gathering up privately owned rifles.

The news stores were about Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania. They were trying to stop attempts of them from rebelling.

 

[Stevie]

One of my customers married himself a Belo-Russian girl. Talking to her about her native country(even after the fall of comunism)...she says you must seriously watch what you say and believe or you will have serious problems!!

 

[diamonback68]

My wife was born in Bremerhaven and hide out during the war in Osnabruck with her grandpa and grandma and remembers how Hitler slowly conned the German people into become sheeple. It all started with gun control and then one lie after another.

 

[george minze]

ANYTHING SEEM FAMILIER? OFCOURSE NOTHING LIKE THAT COULD HAPPEN HERE........