Soldiers Owning Their Weapons. #shorts #army

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[TSPLY]

Talked to a green beret about owning his own gear .

[AndersAylward]

This is MY rifle. There are many like it, but this one is mine!

[RCP-]

In switzerland you can buy your issued rifle at the end of your service for a bargain. You need a license for it and it gets converted to semi only though.

[gorbdonfreeming]

NEVER keep your personal weapon in the arms room, especially if you are married/ don’t live in the barracks. Shit will go missing. Either attachments or the entire weapon itself will disappear, and someone gets away with a new to them weapon.

[BiggestIron-]

WWII service members 100% klept those Garands.

[spuewsc]

You can have full auto without a license if it was manufactured before 1986. The pre 86 m16s go for like 20-40k I think though😂

[felix]

Imagine someone showing up with a musket for Training

[spacecadet]

You can actually buy some full auto M-16s in certain states. On the federal level, all fully automatic "machine guns" that were produced prior to 1986 are considered antiques and can be sold on the open market provided the buyer gets registered at the ATF and they purchase a tax stamp. However, the laws very wildly state by state, with some banning all antique firearms that are fully automatic and others only banning certain types. If I remember correctly, where I'm from allows for the purchase of antique WW2 and WW1 era machine guns.

[conangaming]

My grandfather kept his Lee Enfield from his service in the Australian army.

Unfortunately you can’t do that now.

We still have it, my dad owns it now seeing that my grandfather passed 10 years ago.

But still.

[CultOfMonika]

Video was just as helpful as asking the ATF

[patrickkenyon]

At the end of World War 2, when his unit was being sent home, my father asked if he could keep his P-51.
They said no.
He asked, what if he paid to have it shipped? They said no.
Then, at the end of the Korean War, he asked if he could keep his F-86.
They said no.
He asked, what if he flew it home himself, and paid for the fuel?

They said no, and we are watching you...

[darthhodges]

It should also be noted that there have been policies in some countries at certain times where a soldier could purchase their issued weapon from the military they served in when their service ended. I am not aware of any nation where it is still true, today.

Regarding full auto in the United States it is not banned outright but it is heavily regulated. Full auto firearms manufactured on or after May 19, 1986 cannot be owned by civilians but any manufactured before that date can. However, unlike a typical gun purchase background check that can currently be completed in a few minutes the process for purchasing an "transferable" machine gun includes a lot more paperwork which the ATF has to process. You can't take possession of your purchase until approval is received and the ATF's current backlog is around a year. Also the limited market means the cheapest machine guns sell for $10, 000 with desirable ones going for many times that.

[TiffanyPlaysOwO]

I remember that soldiers after the Civil War were allowed to keep their service rifles

[okamiexe]

As I've heard, Soldiers used to be able to bring their personal weapons into war up until the Vietnam war. They only stopped allowing it because too many soldiers kept complaining that their own weapons would break or get lost/stolen.

[GP-]

Caviot here* civilians could buy machineguns prior to may of 1986 so long as they were registered under the national firearms act. Any registered under the NFA prior to the closing of the registry are still legal to own. That date puts the M4 out of reach but some models of the m16 are on the registry as transferable machineguns. But have fun with about a year worth of paperwork, and price tag thats more than a good chunk of Americans make in a year.

[lancecorporalveteran]

I heard of guys bringing their own pistols one staff seargent brought his 1911 pistol and surprisingly no one noticed when he walked through inspections with it inside his holster.

[lord_nihilus]

As an FFL, you can buy a brand new machine gun for less than $2, 000 and have it transferred to you in a few days. As a private citizen (without an FFL) you can only buy an old machine gun (over 35 years old), it'll likely cost north of $15, 000, and you'll have to wait around a year for the transfer via an ATF Form 4.

[skipdavis]

actually you really can own a full auto rifle. it's hassle, but it can be done.

[bearjam]

Not going to fact-check myself, but I'm like 80% certain that even during ww2, you never owned your gun. Maybe you could buy it back, but what I always understood is that veterans mostly got them in the 50's after they got sold as cheap surplus.

[isaacramirez]

Could you do a video on weapon attachments? I know people buy their own buttstocks, but do people buy their own optics?