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Message started by scryptic on Nov 5th, 2019 at 7:27am

Title: Re: 1898 inherited from my Grandpa
Post by psteinmayer on Nov 6th, 2019 at 1:15pm

scryptic wrote on Nov 5th, 2019 at 7:27am:
Does anyone know if soldiers routinely got to keep their service rifles?


Howdy... and welcome to the forum!

Sometimes yes... back in the day, sometimes servicemen did keep their rifles.  My WW1 veteran Krag was brought home by the Guardsman/Soldier that carried it in France.  My father used to have a friend that kept his M-16 after his tour in Vietnam.  This doesn't happen anymore (they call that Government Theft nowadays). 

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