Very true. My dad told me when he returned to England from Italy he went to stores to turn in his Browning HP and Tommy Gun. He was told that he had the only ones in that area, Cdn wise and it was going to be a hassle to do the paperwork. They said, "nope, these were battlefield casualties in Italy", easy to write off, and he could get out their hair. Dad, borrowed a motorcycle, disassembled the Tommy down as far as he could. He then went for a ride and threw a piece here and another there, until it was all gone. He brought back the Browning and tried to register it with the RCMP who weren't having any of that as it was a military pistol. He was instructed to take it to Stores and turn it in. He tried, but when they looked up the s/n they said, "this weapon was lost in Italy, it doesn't exist, we can't take it back". Dad went back to the Mounties and said, they won't take it. He surrendered it and they destroyed it. He did keep the holster, however as l remember discovering it in my teens, whereupon he told me it's history.