Yachts and guns
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 1:54 pm
I'm not much of a boat person. I have friends who have yachts, and those friends are gun people, so their yachts usually have some form of stainless steel or chrome plated long gun on board.
I'll ask them next time I see them, but this news item got me wondering: https://www.yahoo.com/news/philippine-i ... 49219.html
So German guy is on a yacht with his girlfriend. He sails near Somalia, not something I'd do unless I had a couple of .50 BMGs on my boat, and gets captured by Somali pirates. He and his girlfriend are held hostage for 2 months and freed after paying some large sum in ransom.
He continues his sailing trip. This time he gets captured by Muslim pirates off the Philippines. His GF gets killed and he gets captured. I guess his bank account was already depleted by his 2 months vacation in Somalia, so he didn't have the money to pay to save his head (so to speak).
If I have a registered MG in Florida, and set sail on my boat, what jurisdiction does ATF have once I sail out of the Florida Keys? As long as I don't dock in NYC, I'm in international waters.
So, if I have some death wish to go sail past Somalia, who cares if I happen to have a couple of M2HBs in a locker ready to stick on tripods on my bow and stern?
I'm thinking I could buy a lot of MGs and ammo vs. paying out a $600,000 ransom.
I'll ask them next time I see them, but this news item got me wondering: https://www.yahoo.com/news/philippine-i ... 49219.html
So German guy is on a yacht with his girlfriend. He sails near Somalia, not something I'd do unless I had a couple of .50 BMGs on my boat, and gets captured by Somali pirates. He and his girlfriend are held hostage for 2 months and freed after paying some large sum in ransom.
He continues his sailing trip. This time he gets captured by Muslim pirates off the Philippines. His GF gets killed and he gets captured. I guess his bank account was already depleted by his 2 months vacation in Somalia, so he didn't have the money to pay to save his head (so to speak).
If I have a registered MG in Florida, and set sail on my boat, what jurisdiction does ATF have once I sail out of the Florida Keys? As long as I don't dock in NYC, I'm in international waters.
So, if I have some death wish to go sail past Somalia, who cares if I happen to have a couple of M2HBs in a locker ready to stick on tripods on my bow and stern?
I'm thinking I could buy a lot of MGs and ammo vs. paying out a $600,000 ransom.