<< I can go to an Armed Forces day open house as
a reenactor and bring blanks and working weapons (including classIII
machine guns) but if I attend by way of a MV club, I can't bring a
functional weapon, much less blanks. On this point, I mean HMV owners
are discouraged to participate in any kind of firing demo, unless it's
propane. >>
I am all for 2nd amendment rights, BUT...
at a lot of MV events you tape the batteries and fuel tank...and that has
nothing to do with vehicle, has to do with safety and liability.
At an MV event that I host, I'm not much interested in maintaining control of
a bunch of live weapons, some which may belong to folks I don't know (or
don't trust), and keeping the general public's hands off of them. Even with
blanks it just takes a second in the hands of a careless on looker to bring
disaster.
I feel that dummy or demil weapons are appropriate when mounted of stowed as
part of a vehicle display. And I can understand the desire to own fully
functional, but I also understand the hazards and liability (both legal and
morally) this poses to show hosts and insurance companies.
Just as I would hate for a child to step under a moving truck, I'd hate for
an ill mannered, over enthusiastic person to discharge a weapon they thought
dummy.
How many on this list have not found people in, on, under, their vehicles at
a display? Moving levers, switches controls?
I have had people:
Walk accross the hood of my freshly restored LeRoi compressor truck
Sit on hood of M35A2
Start M36A2
turn every switch on 530C fire truck on (& there are plenty of them!)
shift gears into every possible combination on M123A1C
do pull ups on bows on M35A2
this list could go on, and I rarely am more than 50 feet from any one of my
trucks at a display. (and the "do not touch signs didn't help either) Do you
really think this caliber of person needs immediate access to a live weapon?
my .02,
David Doyle
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