ELi5 What happens when you demilitarize munitions/weapons, and why is it a thing?
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It means making it no longer functional as a weapon. For example by blocking the barrel of a gun and filing off or removing the firing pin. Generally it has to be irreversible. Or removing the gunpowder from munition. In some countries this is mandatory if a civilian (even a museum) wants to own it.
It is mostly done in places with strict weapons laws where people still want to collect these items for personal or historical reasons.
The rules and requirements for demilitarisation vary wildly per country. In Germany, for example, you can privately own drivable armored vehicles such as tanks and APC’s but you must replace certain parts of the armor with sheet metal that is thin enough to be reliably penetrated by standard 9mm bullets.
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