Hey Jon, if you think those Yankees are crazy - In Canada a REPLICA gun (any
type) is PROHIBITED unless you owned it before a certain date (who is to
know as they are not registered!), or are a museum, military or movie
company. ANYONE can own a DEWAT real machinegun or SMG without any permits,
but can get arrested if they make one out of plastic piping and wood! DUMB!
You can also be arrested in Canada if you have a 2o round M16 magazine, or
Sten gun magazine! Don't need the gun, just the magazine! DUMB!
The good news for you is that cannons are legal here without any paperwork
BUT the bad news is that we are not allowed to have live ammo for them as
far as I know. Explosives laws.
So here we usually put REAL guns DEWATTED on our ex-military vehicles.
Some photos of recent events here are on our club web site for British
Columbia at www.westerncommand.com Click on the HISTORY page.
Colin Macgregor Stevens
NOTE: I lost about 100 messages in early April, 11 or more messages on 2001
APR 30/May 1 and about 10 more on May 16 due to a server problem. If you
sent me a message during that time that was not answered, please resend it.
Thanks.
MVPA Member 954 (since 1977)
Editor: "Maple Leaf Up!" newsletter & Webmaster
of Western Command Military Vehicle Historical Society
(Established 1977)
Pitt Meadows (East of Vancouver but not beyond Hope)
British Columbia, CANADA
Owner of:
1944 Willys MB jeep (ex-Norway)
1942 BSA airborne bicycles (2)
Personal web site: http://bcoy1cpb.pacdat.net
E-mail: colin@pacdat.net
Club web site: http://www.westerncommand.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Shoop" <shoop19@brick.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Weapon-laden vehicle brings charges for man
> Displaying a fake firearm???????????What the hell is that.......I guess if
> you have a real firearm in the back window of your truck you get charged
> with displaying a real firearm?.........sounds like a Cop as a "make your
> own case" and we will sail it past the local prosecutor and see if he
> bites.......
>
> Love it.....
>
> Made a trip to Knob Creek in April......had the M3AT gun on my 16 foot car
> hauler. Tied down.....registered and legal. A local officer stopped by as
> we were getting ready to leave the shop for Kentucky. He needed parts for
> their department MP5s...so I opened back up and got him his parts......he
> said..".WOW...Ill bet you get pulled over alot on your way there.....with
> that thing on the trailer."........??? I replied," No...have done this
trip
> 5 times with the AT gun ......never pulled over.....for anything...the
> Illinois and Indiana State police just wave"........he said, "No Way...I
> can't believe that...then it hit me.............He would pull me
> over....and jack my ass....over having the M3 on my trailer......Hummmmmmm
>
>
> I remember hauling 3- B-61 Practice Nukes on the same trailer......12 foot
> long each on skids......pretty impressive...big fins..warheads......lots
of
> fancy stenciling............around 850 lbs each.......I trailered one all
> the way to Northern Indiana from St Louis......never a problem.....
>
> Poor guy in Ct........must have been a slow day in West
> haven...............Breach of the peace........what a joke....must be alot
> of dumb asses living around there.............Ohhhhhh the town is being
> invaded.......I'll bet he was driving one of those really huge and
> intimidating M5 Stuarts...........what a joke.
>
> Jon
>
> At 01:07 PM 6/11/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >I am hardly surprised. New England, especially tax-a-chuessets is
> >notoriously anti-gun. Never mind that they weren's REALLY guns, it is
enough
> >that they LOOKED like guns to go to jail up there.
> >
> >Thank God I live in Texas!!!
> >
> >Mike Towers
> >Texas Lawman and Concealed Handgun License Instructor
> >...also a few MVs
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Skip Woods <swoods@samnet.net>
> >To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> >Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 12:43 PM
> >Subject: [MV] Weapon-laden vehicle brings charges for man
> >
> >
> >> Just read this in the Union News New England Briefs:
> >> West haven, Conn. - Police made a motor vehicle stop near the town
beach
> >> that was anything but routine.
> >> Philip Roklen, 51, of Woodbridge, was pulled over Saturday while
driving
> >his
> >> antique military vehicle that came complete with a cannon and three
> >machine
> >> guns. The weapons didn't work, bout police and bystanders didn't know
it.
> >> "It's not a normal occurrence on our beautiful shoreline," said police
> >> spokesman Dominic Vinci. Police later learned that Roklen collects
vintage
> >> military vehicles - such as tanks and jeeps. His ride near the town
beach
> >> had some folks thinking they were under invasion, said Vinci. Roklen
was
> >> charged with operating an unregistered and uninsured vehicle, breach of
> >> peace and displaying a fake firearm."
> >> I did not make this up! Does anybody know Philip? Is he on this list?
>
> >Would
> >> like to know more about what happened! Anybody know more about this?
> >> Skip Woods
> >> 1954 M37
> >> Shrewsbury, MA.
> >>
> >>
> >>
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