It's true. After the fall of Dunkirk, England was virtually defenseless as they lost most of their small arms during the evacuation.jmra wrote:I got to thinking, seems like I remember a story about US citizens sending a bunch of hunting rifles to England during WWII. I think I remember we did this because the citizens were defenseless due to existing gun laws. Anyone remember reading something about that? Maybe something posted on the forum? I wonder how many times in the future we will need to bail out those who have neutered themselves?
"Help for the beleaguered nation came from both the American government and from the American people, the latter through the "American Committee for Defense of British Homes. In late 1940, the committee sent an urgent appeal -- which, of course, appeared in American Rifleman -- for Americans to send "Pistols - Rifles - Revolvers - Shotguns - Binoculars" because "British civilians, faced with the threat of invasion, desperately need arms for the defense of their homes."
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That fact was related to me by a rancher friend of the family up in Clay county, to me back in 1962. He donated a couple of shotguns, 2 rifles, and a pistol. He never got them back.