..Finally, Thanks-to-God, the last blank/unexplored/unknown
area/spot in Austria's Orwellian landscape is going to be
explored/closed within short.
What is that ?
The up-to-now unregistered vintage shotguns have to be
registered , i.e. the present group D (shotguns) will
vanish and will be treated like rifles (group C).
"Registrierung Flinten-Altbestand".
We are told that this is in line with
"EU-Waffenrichtlinie" ex Brussels.
....
At the invasion of the Russian army in april 1945 all
weapons were confiscated,piled with others, burnt
and the remaining iron dumped into the nearby trench.
This happened also to the shotguns of my father, who
has been still at war when the Russian army entered
my parental village.
But once the invasion was over, shotguns were free:
REPEAT: SHOTGUNS UNDER RUSSIAN OCCUPATION FROM 1945
TO 1955 WERE FREE, NO REGISTRATION, NO CONFISCATION,
NO LOOTING, NO :"DAWAJ TOWARISCH TWOJU PUSCHKU".
Once the game-depleted fields from war-time recovered,
my father bought a rather simple "Hammerless" from
Just/Ferlach,16/65,non-ejector,in post-WW II-quality.
He then hunted with it, sometimes even along Russian
soldiers, who had gentleman-like behaviour.
I started to hunt with it, hunted with it till I fell
prey to the "London-Best" madness, and still have this
gun.
Market-value: One "Erinnerungs-Euro".
So after 70 years I have to REGISTER it, the RUSSIANS
did not care about it, the EU does.
There is also my "Russian " Purdey, ex Russian count
A.A.Bioncourt, built 1889, a jewel of English
shotgun-iana. He had donated the other 598 weapons he
owned to a Moscow museum.
Also this needs to be registered.
...
The Austrian authorities play on "transparency", we do
what EU is telling us to do.
Who is this "EU" in Brussels ?
When I look on these folks who represent there Austria, these
are not the "Best-of-the-breed" of politicians.
Rather from 3rd-tier, who got their "Verpflegungsjob"
in Brussels.
To show/proof their existence they invent pseudo/dummy
exercises like this vintage-gun-registration.
Its also these EU folks in Brussels who messed it up
in the relationship with the Brits, leading to the
Brexit-votum and its final end, the Brexit.
They simply mismanaged it, it's their political "Supergau",
no sensorium for "Live-and-let-live".
(And it has not been the personal feud between the two
Eton-cowboys, the then-PM Cameron and his
opponent ,the Want-to-be-PM Johnson, this is rather a simplified tabloid-merry-tale).
I have full sympathy for the British buccaneers for their
Brexit, for not wanting to be ruled by this sclerotic
and incompetent Brussels-gang. I regret that they leave..
..
I understand that the single country which will not
implement this registration stupidity is - how can it
be otherwise - our Schwejkiad neighbours from Czechia.
In their honour I close with their hunt-greetings
Lovu zdar
..Felix Neuberger..
Postscriptum 1:
Europe's summa-cum-laude-reddie country is Sweden.
They have the most stringent gunlaw.
Despite that, their PM O. Palme has been shot in
open street in 1886, till today not known by whom and why .
Postscriptum 2:
The overall documentation of gun-ownership then opens
the possibility for a "Guni-Leak" and/or state-owned
"Matched-pair" facility.
Both versions could operate on a service-fee bases,
another creation of state-revenue and public-sector-jobs.
Postscriptum 3:
Finally, lets be positive, pragmatic and look at the
chances/opportunities lying ahead of us.
Changes like that always flush/wash up to the market
up to now hidden guns.
Springer's Erben with their auction will wellcome this
development.
So may be in 50 years, when one of my grandsons,
following my hunting tracks, bags his first speckle-belly
goose in the Hortobagy marches in Hungary and being
asked:
"Which gun did you use today", his answer could well be:
"Its the vintage Purdey, which my grandfather has bought when
Europe implemented the Orwellian shotgun control".
..
Amen
Last edited by felix; 11/28/18 07:17 AM.
