Collecting tanks and other military vehicles in Europe may soon
become a pastime of the past, thanks to a proposed set of European
Commission regulatory reforms aimed at fighting terrorism.
Under
the European Union's existing Firearms Directive, enacted in 2008,
military weapons of any sort - including those integral to historic
military vehicles - fall under Category A, the same category as fully
automatic weapons, which means that private citizens, collectors, and
museums may not own them unless they have been deactivated.
However,
following the terrorist attacks last January and November in Paris, the
European Commission proposed a series of changes to the Firearms
Directive designed specifically to restrict the trafficking of
deactivated weapons out of concern that those deactivated weapons could
become reactivated, as some were for the Paris terrorist attacks.
See how terrorism is changing the vehicle collector's market too.
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