Opinions on my Deactivated 1936 Luger

[Bill_in_VA]

I’m at a loss understanding how countries that have recently faced external oppression can so quickly and willingly and efficiently disarm their populace. Ireland gained its independence only a hundred years ago via internal populist resistance and it has been just a scant 20 years since the IRA agreed to decommissioning. Yet it’s damned near impossible to own anything other than a rimfire or shotgun, and even that is tightly regulated. 80 years ago England begged the US for arms, martial and civil to arm up against an expected invasion. Continental western Europe faced exactly that: invasion and occupation by a despotic foreign power. An armed populace helped keep the enemy off balance until liberation came. Western Europe tightly restricts firearm ownership to the point of absurdity. Have their governments learned nothing? Or is it that they so fear their populace? Either way, free ownership of firearms is one of the pillars of a free people remaining free from a tyrannical government. Preaching to the choir here, I know...