If you haven’t been keeping up on Mugwug’s ‘FrankenGarand’ project, you should go here and start at the bottom post.
Once you have done that, you really need to go here and read what he had to go through after he completed the rifle.
You see, Mugwug is Canadian and, as we all know, Canadian citizens are required by law to register their firearms with the government.
Which is sad really, because on the same day he posted about his registration experience I found this tale of woe at Ravenwood’s Universe about how the state of California(-stan) went through their computerized records to find the owners of certain Smith & Wesson and Walther 22 pistols and notified them that they must either return the pistols to the factory to have a certain set of threads removed, turn them in for destruction OR GO TO JAIL.
Yes, you read that right; the California Deptartment of Justice (what a sick use of that word) is officially telling the owners of full sized pistols in teeny-tiny .22 Long Rifle caliber that they could possibly go to jail and have all of their firearms confiscated if they don’t mail their pistols back to the manufacturer to have a set of useless threads removed.
It gets better; the CDOJ let these particular firearms be sold in their state for 2 YEARS after discovering that they contained these offending threads.
Add to that the CDOJ threatened to sue S&W with a lawsuit to persuade them to pay for the entire cost of modifying these firearms.
Basically, what I’m trying to say is the old truism about registration ALWAYS leading to confiscation is alive and real in California(-stan) and that any person who can build a custom Garand should get automatic US citizenship.
Mugwug, I know you’re currently in the middle of moving and all, but if you could you just drop anchor south of the border this time around, I think we’ll all feel better. Just don’t go to California(-stan).
Or Massachusettes, New York or Illinois for that matter.
Hehe, moving South of the “line” has occured to me more than once, especially as my brother and his wife live in Texas. It’s particularly painful to stop by a gunshow down there, while visiting, and oggle the rows on rows of firearms that are “prohibited” up here.
In so far as our firearms registration system, we’re $2 billion in (yes, thats “billion” with a “b”) and it really hasn’t seemed to have had an impact (strangely the criminals didn’t knock themselves over rushing to register their firearms).
Still if it saves just one life….(gotta love that “battle cry”, no?)