Comments by "Simon Nonymous" (@Simon_Nonymous) on "It Belongs in a Museum! Or, "Ian Offends Curators"" video.

Glad you are surviving Alan, and a good precis of the issues seen from the museums' point of view.
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@stephenbarker5162 , it's not probably, it's a fact. The UK changes came about after 2007 when a pair of arms dealers were busted for converting possibly over 3,000 deactivated firearms back into viable weapons, and funnily enough, they weren't sold on to FAC owners but to criminals who I presume were not into punching holes in paper targets or collecting rare and historical weapons. Link to news report here: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/dec/09/ukcrime.ukguns
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@zsoltmolnar1143 highest rate as 'a per centage of people murdered where the weapon is a knife'. Homicide rate per head is less than one quarter than that of the USA . Thank you.
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An intelligent and reasoned monologue! I don't think anyone could be offended by this one Ian. I do like your hypothesis about museums then and now, and think it holds water. I agree that to understand a machine it has to be used - what I would like the Royal Armouries to do is offer me a job putting this into practise. I can do 40 hours a week, have my own eye and ear protection, and am willing to work my lunch.
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