Posted on 08/04/2021 9:23:46 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
An 84-year old German man has been fined 250,000 euros ($297,000 USD) for storing a collecting of World War II-era weapons in his basement, including a 45-ton Nazi tank, according to German media reports.
The court in Kiel, Germany convicted the man under the country’s War Weapons Control Act after a search of the octogenarian’s home resulted in the discovery of a large collection of wartime military weapons stored in his underground garage, including the Panther tank, a torpedo, mortars, anti-aircraft guns, machine guns, automatic pistols and 1,500 rounds of ammunition, the Register reported.
The defendant, whose name was kept confidential due to German privacy law, received a 14-month suspended sentence. He must donate or sell the tank and the anti-aircraft guns to a museum or collector within two years, reported the Associated Press.
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TTIWWP!................
Proud to be an American where even the president says we need F-15s and nuclear bombs for personal defense. Or something like that
He was discovered when he tried to bring the take to Washington DC for the Jan 6 coop. Pelosi to investigate.
“He must donate or sell the tank and the anti-aircraft guns to a museum or collector within two years, reported the Associated Press.”
I don’t get it. May he sell it to himself?
This thread is worthless without Patton?
Xiden White House Cabinet Meeting?
BTW - Anyone seen Commiela lately, or is she in Quarantine?
Pretty sure you can own a tank in the US as long as the main gun is disabled, and the machine guns need a proper permit or also disabled.
bttt
Great scene.
Why bother, the tank would last about a minute today assuming it could run.
Same think would happen here if the FIB discovered a General Lee Dodge Charger hidden in your Barn.
Exactly, I thought he was a collector.
I WANT PICTURES!...................GUN PORN!................
Maybe he just feels he needs the stuff to fight the modern nazis in the ruling class.
Lol, sad but mostly true. The domestic terrorists blm would descend on the place and burn it to the ground d no doubt
Battle of the Bulge-underrated flick. I don’t know why.
Supposedly he took his Panther out for a spin during in a nearby city a long time ago:
The mayor of the nearby city of Keikendorf reportedly said, “He was chugging around in that thing during the snow catastrophe in 1978.”
When I lived in Greenville, SC, there was a guy with an M-2 halftrack. He brought it out during snowy weather to help motorists (nobody in the South can drive in the snow). He’d pull them out of snowbanks or up hills or whatever.
It seems to be like this wasn’t a secret or surprise - just some bureaucratic Karens looking to spoil someone’s fun and looking for headlines. Or maybe he donated to their opponent.
BFD, when the war ended there were weapons found on the streets everywhere. Many picked them up and stored them in barns, cellars,attics, buried in yards and anywhere else they could hide them, in anticipation of WW III with the Soviets. No 2nd amendment there, the Government doesn’t want another WW, every time there is one Germany shrinks. Their NATO motto is “In case of war, hide till the Americans come to save us”. Here in America, he would be considered a collector or a white supremacist preparing an assault on D.C..
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