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| 02/10/09 02:25 AM |
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Re: Finding Oberndorf Mausers in South America
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Quote:That is actually technically correct. There have been some US military units equipped with .30-30s, as well as some foreign militaries.
Application of the law seems to be somewhat arbitrary in some quarters, too... I remember visiting my Uncle in Ecuador when they confiscated his Savage Model 24 combination gun; it was in a "military" caliber you see. The .30-30 was a ".30", and thus, military...
Carpet; it is hard to find a cartridge that has not been used at some time by some military or paramilitary force somewhere.
Which is, of course, what makes this type of law so odious and so prone to subjective and/or "technically correct" interpretation...
There, at that time, anything ".30" was banned.