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  • beachcomber

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    Hi, my name is Oli, but here you can call me Beachcomber.

    I'm from Europe, Belgium actually, one of the smallest countries in the world.
    I have a investor visa for the US, so I visit Texas regularly, where I have some businesses, mostly in IT.
    I fell in love with the state and I fell in love with guns.

    In Belgium it's impossible to get firearms. We have some of the strictest laws in the world. It's so bad that even the criminals have outdated weapons, since there's nothing to find.
    I own a lot of WW2 era firearms, but all of them are welded shut and only for display. I also own one piece that is, well, not in accordance to local laws, but I inherited it form my grandfather and they are going to have to pry it form my cold dead hands, as you say it so well.

    My home country does have a giant advantage, we were the center of the battlefield in both world wars. I only need to dig in my backyard to find genuine battlefield remains. When building our home we found three French infantrymen from WW1, two of them were identifiable.

    I hope to learn a lot from the forum. And some day I hope to be able to retire, preferably in Texas. In the sun.

    Thank you for reading this and have a nice day!
    Lynx Defense
     

    vmax

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    Welcome to the site. While I would not put up with restrictive gun laws that you have, I have always wanted to travel to Europe for the purpose of exploring WWII sites and possibly make a discovery of a relic. No bodies!!!

    I have read about Americans who make the journey every few years to commemorate the D-Day Landing in France and they plan and stay a week and travel the country side visiting the rural houses and come across helmets and other relics that a farmer will have turned up while plowing a fields.
     

    beachcomber

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    I didn't only find bodies. During the build I found guns, grenades, canteens, ceremonial swords, bayonets, knives, ...
    I even found a carbine - type gun with the bullet casing still in the receiver. The guy carrying it was probably shot right after.
    Farmers nearby still find artillery shells and gas grenades when they plow. Pretty insane, even after a century...
     

    beachcomber

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    What part of Texas do you travel for work?
    We have a satellite office in Dallas (not far from Parkland Memorial, which was our first client there) and we re thinking of opening a new branch in Houston as well. It'll depend on how the economy performs in the next few quarters. We stood our ground during the previous years, but it's been hard and I don't want to gamble the little reserves we have away by expanding too quickly. So it's still on the fence.
    Besides Dallas, we have offices in Brussels, Paris, London, Singapore and Berlin. We are specialized in Medical imaging hard & software. Boring stuff, but it pays the bills nicely :-)
     
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