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Hi all, and greeting from New Zealand !
I just wanted to share something with you so you can value your FN FAL / L1A1's a little bit more today. I'm in New Zealand and (currently) own 2 x mint condition Lithgow Manufactured L1A1's, one of which was my fathers personal service rifle that kept him alive in Vietnam in 66/67 (where on a side topic he was deployed next door to the US 173rd Airborne and they did a lot of joint operations together)
Naturally as not only an FN FAL / L1A1 enthusiastic I was until recently "as happy as larry" so to speak to own not just one, but too such beautiful pieces of history (and especially happy to have my fathers actual service rifle). Unfortunately as you've all no doubt heard the New Zealand government (following the terrorist attack in Christchurch) is now is the process of banning semi-autos and much more (and they rushing the legislation through without proper democratic due process to boot).
Having already been told that I need to "surrender" my two L1A1's by September or else (its a forced buy back) I'm now considering all options to at least save my fathers service rifle from destruction (they'll likely destroy everything like the Aussies did during their forced buy back) and I may see it I can gift it to a war museum if possible.
However, I'm getting off topic. The point I want to make is this, if you are a US Citizen this is yet another reminder to continue to value and protect your 2nd amendment as the US is the only country in the world to have such a protective mechanism and whats currently happening here in NZ is yet another tragic example of what happens to honest law abiding citizens when you don't have a 2nd amendment.
Even my father who was issued his L1A1 back in 1966 and risked his life doing what his country had asked of him, is no longer allowed (trusted) to own such a rifle (which strikes me as not only absurd, but insulting), and his rifle that survived a war and everything the Vietcong and NVA had to throw at it (and he was in the thick of it) will (unless the museum idea works out) be destroyed by the hand of our own left leaning government. The irony is tragic.
Luke Atkins, FN FAL owners group, Facebook
I just wanted to share something with you so you can value your FN FAL / L1A1's a little bit more today. I'm in New Zealand and (currently) own 2 x mint condition Lithgow Manufactured L1A1's, one of which was my fathers personal service rifle that kept him alive in Vietnam in 66/67 (where on a side topic he was deployed next door to the US 173rd Airborne and they did a lot of joint operations together)
Naturally as not only an FN FAL / L1A1 enthusiastic I was until recently "as happy as larry" so to speak to own not just one, but too such beautiful pieces of history (and especially happy to have my fathers actual service rifle). Unfortunately as you've all no doubt heard the New Zealand government (following the terrorist attack in Christchurch) is now is the process of banning semi-autos and much more (and they rushing the legislation through without proper democratic due process to boot).
Having already been told that I need to "surrender" my two L1A1's by September or else (its a forced buy back) I'm now considering all options to at least save my fathers service rifle from destruction (they'll likely destroy everything like the Aussies did during their forced buy back) and I may see it I can gift it to a war museum if possible.
However, I'm getting off topic. The point I want to make is this, if you are a US Citizen this is yet another reminder to continue to value and protect your 2nd amendment as the US is the only country in the world to have such a protective mechanism and whats currently happening here in NZ is yet another tragic example of what happens to honest law abiding citizens when you don't have a 2nd amendment.
Even my father who was issued his L1A1 back in 1966 and risked his life doing what his country had asked of him, is no longer allowed (trusted) to own such a rifle (which strikes me as not only absurd, but insulting), and his rifle that survived a war and everything the Vietcong and NVA had to throw at it (and he was in the thick of it) will (unless the museum idea works out) be destroyed by the hand of our own left leaning government. The irony is tragic.
Luke Atkins, FN FAL owners group, Facebook