content: But what about your civil and revolutionary war sites. If you go into a national park that had a battlefield in it, and you saw something like that near where that battle was, do you take the rifle home and fix it because its a beautiful old rifle you want to fix, or do you leave it where it is as part of a historical park? Do you have to report that shit? Would someone come and lock it down?  There aren't many parts of Europe where a rifle would last like it might in Nevada or Oz. Bogs tend to preserve wood due to the acidity, and a few other rare circumstances, but armies tend to avoid bogs if they can, so we only tend to find deliberate sacrifices there. The acidity also attacks iron, so even if it preserved the stock, the other parts would still be useless. There are some bits of spain, italy and greece which might be dry enough to preserve things through dessication, but they're a minority of the continent. Ice preserves things pretty well, but right now the glaciers are (slowly) retreating rather than advancing, so they're revealing neolithic artifacts rather than preserving modern ones. If you want an unregistered flint spear you might be in luck! Lost iron weapons do get preserved in a variety of circumstances, but not in a condition that would be of use to anyone other than a museum. I think a better chance of finding a working gun would be to stumble across a weapons stash deliberately buried by a group like the IRA, but if you did that you'd be risking your life and freedom to take one, or even report their existence. The other issue is that, even if you did find a truly ancient rifle out in the wilderness, and you could confirm it was ancient, not some discarded bank robber's weapon or a terrorist stash with a couple of bodies on it, you'd almost certainly have to report it just to be allowed to own it. Even the relatively pro-gun countries like Poland and Hungary want you to have a licence and a paper trail.  Sorry for the waffling, was genuinely curious. We dont have old battle sites here because unlike what the niggers would have you believe there were no real battles or massacres between abos and whites. Plenty of attempted thefts rapes and murders by niggers that were defended against tho... but anyway, we just dont have those kinds of relics here.  Nah, it's an interesting question. Thanks for asking.