Posted on 06/14/2016 8:14:26 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The German Defense Ministry is taking flak after pictures emerged of soldiers letting very small people play with some very big weapons.
It all started at an open-house event in Stetten, Baden-Württemberg at the weekend, where civilians were invited in to learn about the German armed forces, the Bundeswehr.
But on Monday, the advocacy group German Peace Society/United Opponents of Military Service posted pictures on Facebook showing small, preschool-aged children being offered the chance to handle some powerful guns on their own.
The guns in the pictures included a G36 assault rifle, a USP pistol, and a MP7 submachine gun, but Bundeswehr rules dictate that children under 18 should not be allowed to handle handguns. …
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Lucky kids.
They’d better introduce those kids to firearms, if they want to preserve their culture and nation state.
There used to be a saying “Most countries have an army, in Germany, the army has a country.”
What a bunch of weenies. Guns have always been the most popular attraction at dog and pony shows.
Ooooooooohh. How AWEFUL!!!! They should be watching educational TV like Disneyland instead!!
But these same people actively cover-up the rape of German girls.
I walked through a large toy shop today and this song was playing:
https://youtu.be/eFTLKWw542g
Wow!
Wish I could let my kids hold a G36.
....I want to hold one too.
In 1965 while with the 101st Abn Div we had open houses. Kids and guns go together (no ammunition) but they were allowed to handle them along with crawl over the various vehicles.
I think I prefer to days to today...
When I was ten years old, I attended an Armed Forces Day celebration at a USAF base. I got to actually shoot two live rounds from an M-14.
I’m shocked!
Shocked they didn’t invite me :(
In the years I served on a SWAT team we did the same thing. I guarantee there will never be a SWAT call up on any of those kids.
But Mom, Achmed’s father lets him play with guns!
He’s got his own explosive vest too.
Each year in the early 1980’s I attended Armed Forces Day at Picatinny Arsenal with my parents and brother. A Sgt. let me fire off a few blanks out of an M-16. We sat in helicopter cockpits, climbed in and on armored vehicles, it was great.
I wasn’t a little kid, early teens, at some military sponsored event. Got to fire blank rounds from an M16 with a blank firing adaptor.
When I was assigned to Ft Kox on Speoial Days, Kids, (BOYS) would get to crawl all over tank, climbon to and ride a scaled down slide for life in to the post swimming pool, do a scaled down learn a parachute landing fall and roll.
I know ad a kid one of the greatest days of the summer was the day our local National Guard Armory had open house and we could see the weapons and vehicles.
At least they didn’t let him hold a Pop Tart chewed into the shape of a gun.
http://ktla.com/2013/10/23/3-students-hurt-when-cops-gun-discharges-at-school-safety-demo/
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