Panzer V Panther taken from old mans cellar
 

No, I'm not taking drugs.

Yes, yes it is real.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news...where-33381772

He had a Flak 88 down there too, and a torpedo. :o Kept in bloody good condition too, shame it was violating a national law, but hopefully they'll find good homes in a museum. :yep:

That's what you get with Obama. Government taking away people's guns.
:nope:

Invasion of Greece cancelled until further notice. :O:

If the weapons are not functional as his lawyer said then he didn't break any law as far as I know. So how comes they are removing that stuff without even knowing whether it's still functional?:hmm2:
Last time I checked people are innocent until proven guilty and confiscating that stuff without proof seems really odd to me.:hmmm:
What if it's not functional? Are they going to put everything back in place the same way they dragged it out and say sorry? Couldn't they find someone to check that on site? That's all really bizarre to me.:-?

Well, that guy owned more tanks than the dutch army... maybe he wanted to go West.:D

True, since going east didn't work out so well...

Nah..More sunshine in Greece. :sunny: :03:

I love german WWII equipment, so this is a great found!

Kitty! :rock:

Nah, just postponed. :O:

Have tried to find it on the internet, without any luck, maybe because it was in the middle or the end of the 80's.

The Swedish police found in a cellar, the wall filled with machine guns from all over the world. This person not known to the police had collected famouse weapons from China, Japan, USA, England etc.

He was arrested. that's all I can remember.

Markus

How'd they know though? Bet you he made his girlfriend angry and she dimed on him.

I often wonder how many German and Japanese small arms got smuggled into the US during WWII? I know that it became such an issue that by 1944 they started running x-rays on certain size parcels of mail sent back. But that just catches the dumb ones. I'd simply strip the STG.44 or MG42 into its small components then send the different bits to different people. "Keep this barrel shroud Nana". Where there is a will there is a way.

Saw this yesterday on another forum I frequent and at least one of the members has similar items stored away :)

Here's a story about an STG 44 turned in by a lady in Hartford, Conn.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...y-program.html

A couple of divisions of Fallschirmjaeger tourists would do wonders for their economy. :D

No doubt in case war with the next door neighbor breaks out over the dog barking at 2 in the morning :O:

Maybe he should just declare his home a museum. It could work :hmm2:

Or give it to me, I'd look after it. :yeah: Especially if it's an Ausf. G, my favourite variant of my favourite German tank. :yep:

EDIT: Apparently it was a Panther built under British directions after the war, so it's a G.

G for Gib...to me...now...

Have any of our German forum members heard an update to the story? Was what his lawyer claimed about the weapons being deactivated true? Will he be getting his tank back?

Personally I would be inconsolable if "da Man" confiscated my tank!

Too bad it wasn't a Tiger Tank. That would wake the neighbors up. :D

I believe that everything remains confiscated as all the items were declared "weapons of war" and therefore illegal for civilians. Haven't heard anything else about it.