France bans HMV's

[Richard Farrant]

Originally posted by Bruce Parker
Can someone please try to find out why MV's are seen to be a threat? Legislation must have a promoter who's arguments make some sense to those who vote on it.

Bruce,

This is some piece of legislation that dates back to either 1939 or 1945, cannot remember which, whereby the French public were not allowed to possess any piece of military equipment, be it firearms, vehicles or even gas masks as someone on another forum pointed out. I suppose back then there was no one interested in collecting mv's, they just wanted to get on with their life. This raised its head prior to Normandy 2004, when there were warnings not to take armoured vehicles to France. Some did and had no trouble. I have a friend and client who is into the MV movement in France and I think I am right in saying, that if the vehicles are owned by a museum or club, they may be allowed to keep them for special events.

Richard