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boonicootza	Posted: August 04, 2006 08:56 pm
Plutonier adjutant Group: Members Posts: 378 Member No.: 135 Joined: November 03, 2003	Weapons found in a "museum" in a school in the countryside What's the large one in the second pic? -------------------- ~

Québec	Posted: August 05, 2006 03:41 am
Fruntas Group: Members Posts: 65 Member No.: 197 Joined: January 18, 2004	The large gun in the second picture seems to be a Mauser 98k (or a VZ24) rifle with the wooden stock eaten away by time... I recognize the shape of the bolt mechanism and the magazine fitting in the receiver. Hope it's the thing you were talking about!

Posted: August 05, 2006 08:55 am

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QUOTE (boonicootza @ August 04, 2006 08:56 pm)

Weapons found in a "museum" in a school in the countryside

What's the large one in the second pic?

Where is this school ?

boonicootza	Posted: August 05, 2006 09:51 am
Plutonier adjutant Group: Members Posts: 378 Member No.: 135 Joined: November 03, 2003	Somewhere around Iasi, don't remeber the name of the village, my father took the pics. -------------------- ~

cipiamon	Posted: August 05, 2006 07:06 pm
Sublocotenent Group: Members Posts: 471 Member No.: 115 Joined: October 06, 2003	Nice!!! But isn't that helmet repainted?

boonicootza	Posted: August 06, 2006 05:19 am
Plutonier adjutant Group: Members Posts: 378 Member No.: 135 Joined: November 03, 2003	Yes it is. Those weapons and helmets are given by the students and are found in the area. They put everything they got there. -------------------- ~

Cristian	Posted: August 06, 2006 10:24 am
Plutonier Group: Members Posts: 250 Member No.: 415 Joined: December 10, 2004	According the new romanian firearms law, any spare gun barrell is considered a weapon, and I can bet the school principal have no licence to keep them(even as wrecks!)!Beware!

Carol I	Posted: August 06, 2006 11:16 am
General de armata Group: Members Posts: 2250 Member No.: 136 Joined: November 06, 2003	Read what happened to another 'relic museum' a couple of years ago: Mos Adochitei a fost amendat de politisti pentru ca cinsteste eroii (Ziarul de Iasi, 13 September 2004).

Posted: August 06, 2006 01:06 pm

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QUOTE (boonicootza @ August 06, 2006 05:19 am)

Yes it is.
Those weapons and helmets are given by the students and are found in the area. They put everything they got there.

Including hand granades ? Wonder if the principle knows the difference if the grenades are still live or not.

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Ruy Aballe	Posted: August 06, 2006 02:18 pm
Plutonier major Group: Members Posts: 307 Member No.: 247 Joined: March 18, 2004	There's a German MP-40 SMG in that hoard, together with a Russian PPSh-41, the later minus its wooden stock (like the Mauser-type action pictured).

Cristian	Posted: August 06, 2006 03:40 pm
Plutonier Group: Members Posts: 250 Member No.: 415 Joined: December 10, 2004	Yes, Ruy, and another PPSh barrell and action cover under the helmet, plus two Mannlicher barrels...

boonicootza	Posted: August 06, 2006 08:27 pm
Plutonier adjutant Group: Members Posts: 378 Member No.: 135 Joined: November 03, 2003	I think the police knows about those weapons, at least the one in the village. That's a sad story with the old man. At least they shouldn't had fined him. -------------------- ~

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