Some of your laws are not as good as you are led to believe. Try looking over the edge of your dinner plate, as we say over here.
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Same goes for me obviously, because whenever something like this occurs I wonder what an American would say if confronted by something like the Kriegswaffenkontrollgesetz*, which is funny, Americans are partly responsible for it’s strictness.
*The set of laws regulating “weapons of war”. In recent times right-wingers have gotten around it by just stealing them from the army. Which tells you a lot about our army.