You Don't Get To Own A Cannon... Maybe We Need To Re-Frame Gun Control... To Arms Control...

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25. Antisocial or eliteist?

Paul Allen donates $500,000 to gun initiative

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has donated $500,000 to a campaign seeking to expand background checks on gun sales in Washington state.

His Aug. 11 donation to Initiative 594 was made public when it posted on the state's Public Disclosure Commission website Monday afternoon. Campaign manager Zach Silk told The Associated Press that the campaign was grateful for Allen's support.

"He has always been the type of leader who is willing to take on challenging issues and work with people to solve them," Silk wrote in an email.

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Paul-Allen-gives-500K-to-expand-background-checks-271772901.html

Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen sues over Nazi tank he says he bought

Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen has seen his share of court fights, what with a patent war he launched a few years ago against pretty much all of Silicon Valley, and other high-profile business battles.

But few lawsuits have been like the one filed on the billionaire's behalf Wednesday in San Mateo County Superior Court. That legal action, complete with a temporary restraining order, is not about software, but rather concerns the hardest of hardware — a 70-year-old German tank known as the Panzer IV that weighs 27.6 tons.


The Panzer IV tank was built by the Germans in 1944, sold to Syria in the 1950s and captured during the Six-Day War by Israel, which used it for training. It eventually became part of the Littlefield Collection. (Littlefield Collection)
Allen owns a lot of things. The Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks. The NBA's Portland Trail Blazers. A chunk of the Seattle Sounders soccer franchise. He founded the Allen Institute for Brain Science. He has given away more than $1.8 billion. And there's a lot more left over.

Now, he says, he spent $2.5 million on the Panzer IV, a choice bit of history that he bought in July to add to his museum of military memorabilia housed in his Flying Heritage Collection in Everett, Wash.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-paul-allen-panzer-20140912-story.html

So guns bad, tanks good?
And how are people who collect Nazi memorabilia described?