Christian Question

Hello Dave,

Bill had told me teh same storry a long time ago, too.

By the way, I hope Bill is doing fine. I'vbe heared that he was recovering from being pretty ill.

But back to the weapons question:

There are unfortunately a couple of problems.

First of all German laws make it illegal to recover any WWII weapons or even ammunition. If you find e.g. one bullet only this can allready get you into pretty bad legal trouble.

However when a weapon is beyond useable condition there will of course be exceptions from the law which brings us however to the 2nd problem:

Many of these old arms will be beyond collectable condition. I've heraed of weapon caches that were in like new condition as everything had been wrapped up in oiled paper and packed into wooden storage boxes.

But for anything that got lost or that the former owner for one or anotehr reason wanted to get rid of in a quick way, there's not much hope. Those weapomns will be realy badly rusted.

Then last but not least there are other dangers involved:

E.g. a storage box could be bobytrapped - that is when you pull the lid you will charge some handgrenades which have been attached to it. Also there may be anti-person land mines hidden in the soil which are very carefully.

Best wishes,

Christian

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