I took the liberty of moving some of the off-topic banter to a new thread. I think I screwed up the transfer of a few posts, seem they disappeared. Of course I rarely do this editing so that is the cause of missing post. I decided to leave the ATF commentary and legality issues with this rifle as it seemed to me relevant because this rifle could fall into those issues and are therefore on-topic as far as I am concerned.
Not only the Polish semi-auto was seized, but a antique French rifle was seized years ago. It was traced back to a French museum where it was looted by the Germans and subsequently looted by a GI (Texas). This is unlikely to draw the German government interest, they did get hot under the collar regarding a historical bible looted from a church some years ago, but I think they chose to buy it back rather than use international law to obtain possession. I doubt the German government would cause a publicity scene over a rare trails rifle. Funny thing is both the bible and the French relic were lifted by Texans.
Lastly, I am not doing this again, people that post here or in the Republican era do not own the threads, I allow them to progress freely with out censorship or editing. If anyone thinks my moving of their post anyway offensive let me know and I will move such posts back. I really don't like doing this (editing threads) and won't do it again.
Not only the Polish semi-auto was seized, but a antique French rifle was seized years ago. It was traced back to a French museum where it was looted by the Germans and subsequently looted by a GI (Texas). This is unlikely to draw the German government interest, they did get hot under the collar regarding a historical bible looted from a church some years ago, but I think they chose to buy it back rather than use international law to obtain possession. I doubt the German government would cause a publicity scene over a rare trails rifle. Funny thing is both the bible and the French relic were lifted by Texans.
Lastly, I am not doing this again, people that post here or in the Republican era do not own the threads, I allow them to progress freely with out censorship or editing. If anyone thinks my moving of their post anyway offensive let me know and I will move such posts back. I really don't like doing this (editing threads) and won't do it again.