JohnnyBoy100 said:
His dad isnt in the CF, My friend said his dad gave it to him for no reason. No he didn't steal it from hsi dad, his dad gave it to him. He wore it to school for Halloween last year and I brought the subject up 3 weeks ago, I said I would buy it from him, not knowing that its the mask the cf uses, The on the side it said C4 So I looked it up and there you go it said its the current mask the cf uses. No harm done.
I'm gonna break this down for you son.
We are issued our kit on loan from the crown to be used for military purposes. We are legally obligated to give it back. If it is destroyed, lost, damaged or stolen we are legally obligated to follow proper processes for that.
Most of what you're talking about may not be illegal for a civilian to own in its own right, however the specific items themselves - e.g., a C4 gas mask - are quite likely stolen. It doesn't matter if a cop gives his kid a gas mask and then you buy it from him- at some point in time that kit has been stolen from the possession of either the crown or the person it was issued to. YOU ARE IN POSSESSION OF STOLEN PROPERTY. Let's be perfectly clear on that. I don't know if you have hopes of ever being a cop or whatever, but that is something that you must know: You are knowingly in possession of something that was stolen from the military. You cannot sell whet you do not have legal title over. Besides that, many items are in and of themselves controlled goods and subject to other specific legally enforceable regulations. I do not know, but I suspect that a gas mask is probably controlled goods.
Why are we pissed off? Because WE get stolen form. Because every day some kit wants a boonie hat or a gas mask that he buys off Ebay, it's ben stolen by someone who knows they can make a buck thieving from us and flipping it for a profit illegally. By acquiring such items or seeking to, you are creating a market for stolen property, as a result of which we become victims.
If that's not clear enough for you I don't know what else will make it so. It should suffice for you that you have some half dozen professionals telling you that you are wrong and giving you explicit detail on why that is the case. Smarten up, shut your mouth and open your ears. If it hasn't dawned on you already that your opinion of us as 'acting like a holes' means the square root of f' all to anyone else here, maybe it should.
Is THAT clear enough?