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<blockquote data-quote="BrandonMF" data-source="post: 1580376" data-attributes="member: 13086"><p>I never got this attitude. It's part of the history of the rifle, and one of the attractions of collecting. Maybe being built by slave labor of a race the Germans deemed inferior and then used by a foreign conscript to execute jews isn't as glorious as a mosin-nagant hastily built by slave labor and then thrown to an illiterate 14 year old conscript, but it's all part of the history.</p><p></p><p>Do you think all B-29s should be dismantled? I mean we did use them to destroy entire population centers. Or is it different 'cause it's American?</p><p></p><p>History isn't pretty. We study it so we can learn from it. You give me a rifle used to execute jews, I'm going to use it to educate people on the perils of a armed fascist state and the folly of pacifism. No point in studying history if you're just going to white wash it all into non-existence, and the only reason any of us have any interest in antique obsolete rifles is because we enjoy the history.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BrandonMF, post: 1580376, member: 13086"] I never got this attitude. It's part of the history of the rifle, and one of the attractions of collecting. Maybe being built by slave labor of a race the Germans deemed inferior and then used by a foreign conscript to execute jews isn't as glorious as a mosin-nagant hastily built by slave labor and then thrown to an illiterate 14 year old conscript, but it's all part of the history. Do you think all B-29s should be dismantled? I mean we did use them to destroy entire population centers. Or is it different 'cause it's American? History isn't pretty. We study it so we can learn from it. You give me a rifle used to execute jews, I'm going to use it to educate people on the perils of a armed fascist state and the folly of pacifism. No point in studying history if you're just going to white wash it all into non-existence, and the only reason any of us have any interest in antique obsolete rifles is because we enjoy the history. [/QUOTE]
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