doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com some "pretty" doubles at auction:

Jim, the old German gunsmith who lived a couple miles from my Dad once showed me some vierlings and drillings that were engraved and inlaid like this. I used to frequent his gun shop and was looking at the used gun rack one day, and he came over and said in broken English, "These guns... all junk! You want see some nice guns, I show you nice guns." He took me into his house which was attached to the shop, and it was stuffed with guns of all kinds. Many were extremely ornate, heavily engraved, and inlaid with gold, silver, and ivory.

He explained to me that he was trained as an armorer for the German Army during WWII, and that part of his his job was to destroy guns that the Nazi's confiscated from towns and villages they conquered during the Blitzkrieg. They would issue a decree to the residents that they had 24 hours to turn in their guns, and if they were caught with guns after that, they were executed.

He told me he was supposed to remove the stocks from the guns, burn the wood, and put the breech section of the barreled action in a press, and crush it so it could not be recaptured and reused. The scrap was sent to steel mills to be converted to new steel for Nazi weapons. He said, "Oh, I crush a lot of very nice guns, but really nice ones, I keep and stash when I can. Then after the war, I come to United States, and my brother smuggle them over here to me." I have no idea how they accomplished this, but he didn't just have a lot of guns. He literally had tonnage. Not all of it was as nice as your photo, but I saw stuff that rivaled anything I saw in the NRA Museum, Harold's Club Casino gun collection in Reno, or anything else I've seen.

The last time I saw these guns was in 1991 during the first Gulf War. I went to his new house he built after he retired to see if he had some Mauser parts I needed. His wife remembered me and invited me in because he wasn't feeling well. The new house was also stuffed with guns... thousands of them, in every room. Many were getting that dry rust patina that comes from neglect. It would have taken a year just to clean them all. He and his wife were cheering for Saddam Hussein as CNN reported that Iraq was firing Scud missiles into Israel. They called them "Stud Missiles" in their broken English, and saying they hoped Saddam killed all of the Jews. Once a Nazi, always a Nazi, I guess.

…It's my feeling they got them from the wrong guy. I'm not going to say names as I don't need a lawsuit..

I visited with that Grade 5 in Las Vegas a couple of weeks ago.

Looked on proxibid this a.m. and it appears only 3 or so of the first 100 items sold. I quit looking after that, but that was startling.

Libel: a published false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation; a written defamation.


And now Nasty Bob is falsely accusing a member here of Libel. So exactly where is the libelous statement? What has been said that may be damaging to some person's reputation, and what would the monetary damages be? Who was the person that was libeled? Were any names named, other than by Nasty Bob, who seems obsessed with poop stains for some reason?

I'm asking for a friend. My friend has the opinion that this is a spineless and baseless threat, and that the person making the threat should ask himself if this alleged crime is as bad as engaging in gutless internet doxxing, and then repeatedly making posts here referring to the person he is doxxing as a Lying Nazi??? My friend noticed that Nasty Bob did exactly that on numerous occasions.



My friend also wonders exactly how it is libelous to say something like "I saw some guns listed in an auction that have been listed in the past, and unsold in other auctions."

Wow, that's some really egregious and damaging stuff there... if you're very thin skinned.

What a surprise!
The finger you point at "the wrong Guy" is poop encrusted.
Oh, and bob, you can successfully defend yourself against a Libel suit by proving that your statements are true.
Perhaps you're right. Although too late to keep your mouth shut, It's best you don't name names.