all ribbing aside, i am a little surprised by this, since france has what appears to be (by european standards) a pretty vibrant civilian gun culture. ownership of handguns, black rifles and suppressors are legal (just not in military calibers). hell, they sell cans over the counter there (no form 3, no CLEO signoff, no $200 tax, no wait).
i guess nobody is immune to an nd…curious as always what happened in this case.
Since 30 caliber has taken a minority position, I’ll join him. The alternative to French capitulation to the Germans in WWII would have been the destruction of their nation and they were not willing to do that. That and the surrender to Hanoi has marked them as surrender monkeys. Prior to WWII though, the French always fought vigorously and often. French casualties in WWI for example were appalling but they persevered nevertheless.
The French also fought a long and brutal war in Algeria. It wasn’t so much the French soldier failing in 1940, it was the cowardly and craven politicians.
I wonder if this instructor say something like:
Je suis le seul assez professionnelle dans cette salle, que je sais de, à gérer cette S&W …