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Edited on Tue Jun-22-04 12:13 AM by Companero
personal war trophies is a criminal offense, I assume Georgie will either be charged or turn his little pistol over to the US govt.
AR 608-4 prohibits soldiers from possessing the following items as war trophies:
(1) United States property or property of any allied nation.
(2) United States property issued or otherwise provided to other governments and captured from enemy forces during hostilities.
(3) Name plates removed from any type of equipment (name plates will not be removed from captured equipment, except as authorized by the appropriate commander).
(4) Live ammunition, explosives, or any item containing explosives.
(5) Weapons defined as “firearms” by the National Firearms Act.
(6) Electronic equipment (radios, radar equipment) or component parts thereof.
(7) Flammables of any nature.
(8) Government-owned or privately owned equipment of any enemy, which is not designed to be issued to or carried by an individual (i.e., motor vehicles, aircraft, motorcycles, machine tools, surgical or dental instruments).
(9) Government-owned or privately owned articles of a household nature, objects of art or historical value, or articles of worth, such as silver or gold ware, chinaware, linens, furniture, stamp collections, coin collections, gems, jewelry, and paintings.
(10) Articles, including works of art or science, which were the property of municipalities or institutions dedicated to religion, charity, education, the arts and sciences, or other items of local value as may be determined by the combatant commander.
(11) Items which are more valuable to research, training, military intelligence, historical, or other purposes than as a trophy, i.e., special purpose clothing, scientific research papers, technical books, weapons or equipment of peculiar design or modification.
(12) Any item, article, or piece of equipment obtained in violation of international law or in violation of any treaty law in effect between the United States and any other country. See FM 27–10, The Law of Land Warfare.
(13) Any other article or materiel not included above but determined by appropriate major commanders to be potentially detrimental to the health, safety, or welfare of individuals will be prohibited for retention or shipment as war trophies.
(14) Any weapon, by whatever name called, which propels or expels a gas or gas-producing material, either by means of an explosive or compressed air.
The following categories of weapons, regardless of the degree of serviceability (serviceable or welded-up), fall within the purview of the National Firearms Act, and are not authorized to be retained as war trophy firearms:
a. Shotguns having a barrel or barrels less than 18 inches in length.
b. A weapon made from a shotgun if such weapon as modified has an overall length of less than 26 inches or a barrel or barrels of less than 18 inches in length.
c. A rifle having a barrel or barrels of less than 16 inches in length.
d. A weapon made from a rifle if such weapon as modified has an overall length of less than 26 inches or a barrel or barrels of less than 16 inches in length.
e. Any other weapon or device capable of being concealed on the person from which a shot can be discharged through the energy of an explosive, a pistol or revolver having a barrel with a smooth bore designed or redesigned to fire a fixed shotgun shell, weapons with combination shotgun and rifle barrels 12 inches or more, less than 18 inches in length, from which only a single discharge can be made from either barrel without manual reloading and shall include any such weapon which may be readily restored to fire.
f. Machinegun, meaning any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger. The term shall also include the frame or receiver of any such weapon, any combination of parts designed and intended for use in converting a weapon into a machinegun, and any combination of parts from which a machinegun can be assembled if such parts are in the possession or under the control of a person.
g. A muffler or a silencer for any firearm whether or not such firearm is included within this definition.
h. Destructive devices.
While in a combat AOR, Article 103 of the UCMJ states that military members must reasonably secure all public property taken from the enemy and turn over abandoned or captured property to the proper U.S. military representatives.
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