Yes. If this bill is passed, it will probably come to that...
and even worse. The problem is that it seems to be written
vaugely...on purpose.
Lets all follow through with letters, calls and emails..
GR
----- Original Message -----
From: <M35products@aol.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 9:47 PM
Subject: [MV] confiscation of MV's
> n a message dated 9/23/01 9:19:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> rojoha@mediaone.net writes:
>
> << I'm not sure what makes my M35A2 a "Significant" item, but I know I
> can't sell it without notifying a whole passel of people and can only
sell
> to US citizens. It's just a truck, not armor or artillery. But it is
"LAW",
> good, bad or indifferent.
> >>
>
> Question: Am I missing something here? I bought my first M35 from a known
> dealer in the NE USA. He gave me a title form that I turned in to the
DMV. I
> now have a registered vehicle, that I can sell, give away, or destroy. Or
am
> I wrong? At no time during the negotiation, purchase, titling, insuring
or
> registration procedures was I made aware of any restrictions or mandatory
> notifications.
>
> I have bought and sold, casually, a number of these vehicles in the past
few
> years. I never warned anyone about their future obligations to notify
anyone
> should they decide to re-sell the trucks.
>
> Observation: Are we to believe that every military vehicle now in the
hands
> of daily drivers, collectors (a non-specific term, with no legal stature),
> farmers, construction companies, highway depts, fire depts, towing
companies,
> mining companies, etc, etc, will have to be given back?
>
> Are you telling me that everyone from Memphis Equipment down to tiny
> companies like mine, are going to have to find something else to do? Are
> military vehicle magazines, Power Wagon Advertiser, etc, going to fold?
>
> Who is keeping track of these trucks? With what we have read on this list
> and other places, it is possible to register these trucks as anything from
> pickups to campers, and everything in between. Are our government
agencies
> suddenly going to get real efficient at finding us? Will there be
> roadblocks, or will the gov't depend upon our neighbors to do the right
> thing, and turn us in for a reward?
>
> Where are these vehicles to be sent for storage, and ultimate destruction?
> Will they just sit around, until such time that some genious in the gov't
> decides that they could sell them to civilians, and make some needed cash?
>
> There are several guys who chop M35's to make big pickups, swamp buggies,
> etc. What will happen to those trucks, assuming that they are still
> registered under their original VIN's?
>
> This is too bizarre even to contemplate. Anyone have any ideas? a p bloom
>
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