And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
Piles of Rifles surrendered by German Soldiers after the End of the Second World War, 1945
Adopt a Mauser today, don’t let them lay around in sad piles anymore.
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ReplyDeleteGives a whole new meaning to the order: "Stack arms".
ReplyDeleteWhere are they now?
ReplyDeleteI'll take a dozen or so.
Every Allied service person should have been allowed to take one home.
ReplyDeleteThe last time I saw this photo it was captioned as being taken in Norway in 1945.
ReplyDeleteI think Sam Cummings visited this place the day after the picture was taken and shipped all of them back to Interarms...
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