Valuable Historic Guns to be Destroyed

[JohnRich 4]

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The Canadian War Museum is appealing to Hamilton police not to destroy a rare, vintage musket likely used in local battles during the War of 1812.

Hamilton police have several other weapons that museums would like to have, he said, including a rare Johnson rifle and German MG-34 machine gun from the Second World War, a Remington Rolling Block and a Martini Henry rifle from the 1800s.

And there are suggestions that a weapon owned by a Hamilton man killed with General George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn is on the destruction list.

(The firearms were turned in to police during a gun amnesty period.)

All are due to be melted in a blast furnace at the end of April.

"The people of Hamilton have an intolerance for gun violence," Leendertse said. "If we save one life, that's worth more than any history."

Source: Hamilton Spectator

[SpeedRacer 1]

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"The people of Hamilton have an intolerance for gun violence," Leendertse said. "If we save one life, that's worth more than any history."

Damn those violent guns!!! They should all be executed!

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[SkyDekker 1,465]

I don't understand at all why the Hamilton police does not just hand the weapons to a museum. But then if the original owner was too stupid to realize he could make some money with hem.....

Funny enough the new conservative government is vowing to stop the canadian gun registry, but the association of police chiefs is opposing it, saying the registry is very usefull in their day to day work.

[kelpdiver 2]

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Funny enough the new conservative government is vowing to stop the canadian gun registry, but the association of police chiefs is opposing it, saying the registry is very usefull in their day to day work.

What's the association of police *officers* saying?

[billvon 3,070]

Geez. Drill some holes in em (to make the police happy) and give em to a museum. Seems pretty simple.

[warpedskydiver 0]

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News:

The Canadian War Museum is appealing to Hamilton police not to destroy a rare, vintage musket likely used in local battles during the War of 1812.

Hamilton police have several other weapons that museums would like to have, he said, including a rare Johnson rifle and German MG-34 machine gun from the Second World War, a Remington Rolling Block and a Martini Henry rifle from the 1800s.

And there are suggestions that a weapon owned by a Hamilton man killed with General George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn is on the destruction list.

(The firearms were turned in to police during a gun amnesty period.)

All are due to be melted in a blast furnace at the end of April.

"The people of Hamilton have an intolerance for gun violence," Leendertse said. "If we save one life, that's worth more than any history."

Source: Hamilton Spectator

What sacriledge....they should burn in hell for this

[skydyvr 0]

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Geez. Drill some holes in em (to make the police happy) and give em to a museum. Seems pretty simple.

Remove a functional part or something, but don't drill holes in them.

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[ViperPilot 0]

Fucking idiots...yes, b/c I'm so sure a Musket from the 19th century and an MG-34 will be stolen from the musem and used to kill someone...give me a break; bunch of clowns up there in Canada!

[warpedskydiver 0]

Hey I just had a great idea...the police that want to destroy these historic firearms could just throw themselves in the furnace instead of the weapons

[popsjumper 2]

Leendertse said. "If we save one life, that's worth more than any history."

Well, cool with that but WTF...they got the guns off the street so the hypothetical lives were saved...now turn the historically valuable ones over to the museum untouched, unaltered. I absolutely fail to see the problem with that.

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[JohnRich 4]

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Leendertse said. "If we save one life, that's worth more than any history."

Well, cool with that but WTF...they got the guns off the street so the hypothetical lives were saved...now turn the historically valuable ones over to the museum untouched, unaltered. I absolutely fail to see the problem with that.

Very good summary.

What's amazing is that the anti-gun folks are so bonkers that they actually fear antique single-shot long guns stored securely inside a museum. That's a good demonstration of how illogical and irrational these folks are. They don't make a very good image of themselves for public relations.