Comments by "Baneofbanes" (@baneofbanes) on "Rifles of Emperor Menelik II: Ethiopian Gewehr 88 and Karabiner 88" video.

  1. Wilson Laidlaw If an Ethiopian museum truly wanted one of these rifles I’m sure they would already have one. But they didn’t, and instead they sold it. Don’t like it? Too bad. It’s the exact same deal as most other surplus rifles in the US and Canada as well.
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  2. Wilson Laidlaw Or more likely is that the Ethiopian government sold off a hunch of old guns that they don’t want anymore, similar to how the French sold off their MAS 36’s and 45’s, or the Russians and their Mosins. Look I get wheee you’re coming from, but here are old rifles that the Ethiopians who’ve bought in the thousands from foreign producers, and while its history, it’s not on the scale of say the things truly unique to Ethiopian culture and history such as religious iconography and art. If Ethiopian museums truly want this model of gun, they likely already have examples. And
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