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For decades, the French national caliber was the cartidge 7x64 Brenneke in bolt action rifles.

The cartridge 280 Remington was also often used in semi-automatic rifles from Remington.

Otherwise many cartridges were in use, certainly also the cartridges 7mm Rem Mag and 300 Win Mag in bolt action rifles and in semi-automatic rifles.

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Right-wing extremist terrorist activities in France shortly before the WWII.

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I first heard about it when reading about hunting in New Caledonia in the South Pacific. One could not take a military cartridge rifle to hunt the giant Rusa stags.

I thought it might relate to some sort of independence movement in New Caledonia and restricting sources of ammunition.

Of course I later learned the same laws existed in France as well.

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I think such restriction are common in a number of countries. Italy and the creation of the 9x21 to replace the 9x19 comes to mind and in Latin America I think various countries have "military caliber" restrictions. My uncle was a missionary doctor in Ecuador and had to turn in his Savage over/under 20 ga/.30-30 as it was ".30 caliber" and I know a priest who's father was a retired police officer in Mexico who got into hot water for owning a 1911 .45 ACP, that one I suppose technically wasn't because it was "military" but rather because it was larger than the maximum ".38 caliber".

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All laws are valid on French territory, overseas territories also included. There are still some nowadays.

In 1939 the new gun law also applied to the colonies. One read clearly at the end of the legislation that this must also be notified to the colonial ministry.

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I wondered also if these laws related to the Algerian conflict and later betrayal of French Algerian based citizens by the De Gaulle govt. The OAS, French Foreign Legion revolts etc.

Was the ban on military cartridge chambered rifles in force in Algeria on French citizens, when the rebel forces were fighting France?

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Yes, sure.

There were militias to defend localities and settlements, but they officially got their weapons from the army.

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In Algeria it was not as easy as written here, but since some family members of myself were involved in this conflict with all the atrocities, I don't want to comment further on the subject. It is a topic that is not easy to discuss in a public forum.

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That is right.

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