by jaysouth on Wed Feb 03, 2010 11:12 am
As onerous as the gun laws are in France, they are lax in comparison to Germany or the uk.
Many years ago, when I was young and dumb, I worked a year for this French company, SESA, SA. Our offices were in Reston, VA. The French brass in Paris used to invent execuses to come visit so they could shoot black rifles and SMGs at a range in Fredericksburg, VA.
The younger engineers used to bust a gut to get a year tour in our office so they could buy a BIG automobile and shoot anything they wanted any time they wanted. They also bought up every toy in sight because they did not have to pay 17% VAT tax on each purchase. Everyone of them went back to france with a shipping container full of USED electronics, clothes, computers and appliances, there being no VAT on used goods imported into the country.
If you can get Frenchmen out of France and clean them up a little(deodorant and dry cleaning) they are pretty good folks to hang out with.