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10-19-10, 03:05 AM #1
Stolen Valor resale of medals
Does anyone know what are the new Federal Laws on resale of personal decoration like the Silver Star. Now that the Stolen Valor found unconsititutional, I do know you can't resale medals on ebay under Federal Laws.
This week I was at an antique mall where I seen RVN Silver Stars decorations being resold, I felt upset about it. THinking about calling the FBI about it.
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10-19-10, 11:57 PM #2
There are many Marine and Soldiers children that are in possession of war medals ETC and sellm them because they dont understand. There are many collecters that collect items from a certain battle or war and buy those medals and display them. If they get a picture of the warrior who earned them, the better...but wearing them as your own is wrong. You buy honour but you can preserve it.
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10-20-10, 05:25 PM #3
Absolutely NOT illegal to sell ANY medal (except the MOH). Stolen valor act does NOT apply to the buying, selling, trading of any medal, only the wearing/claiming of unearned ones.
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10-21-10, 12:04 AM #4
I personally wouldn't sell any of my medals. But its because they have meaning to me and I protect them in a glass case so someday I can hand them down to my children. Those who sell their medals have issues, either they didn't really earn them, or they just don't care. I know there are some that are hard up for money, but I would dig ditches before I ever sold one of my medals. Every medal I earned has its own story and I hope to tell that story to my grandkids someday. Semper Fi.....
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10-21-10, 12:16 AM #5
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10-25-10, 01:53 PM #6
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10-25-10, 08:38 PM #7
Dcb, Damvn Well Said!
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10-26-10, 07:47 AM #8
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If you are right then why is there an FBI Law on ebay stopping the resale of war mdals ? If you cannot resal them on ebay you should not be able to resale them to the general public, right ! My own son asked me if he could have mine when he was a teenager and I told him go join the Corps and win your own.
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10-26-10, 10:32 AM #9
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10-26-10, 04:26 PM #10
Because Ebay has taken the law and become absolutely RETARDED with it. Ebay doesn't allow the sale of ammunition, 'nazi' items, etc. It's their assinine policies, NOT the law.
Furthermore (because this IS a peeve of mine) it's not illegal for a Canadian, an Australian, a German, or an Englishman to purchase a Medal of Honor. That's right, they can buy/sell/trade them all they want. Yet, it IS illegal for me to do so, as an American citizen. All this law has done (re: the purchasing/owning of the Medal of Honor) is to send them overseas. Absolutely stupid.
Prosecute to the fullest extent of the law, and impose JAIL time, on those who would illegally wear such things. But basically telling collectors in this country that they cannot own, buy, or sell them has only succeeded in driving pieces of American history...overseas.
Again....it is ONLY illegal to sell the MOH. Nothing else. Ebay is retarded.
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10-26-10, 06:09 PM #11
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10-26-10, 06:24 PM #12
Yup. "Law of unintended consequences". Good intentions law that has completely backfired.
You can thank "His Lordships Industries", which was the MOH contractor in the 1990's for that one, they were selling MOH's illegally. That wasn't the issue so much, except that the scumbags who bought some of them used them to replace REAL MOH's that had been issued to MOH winners (in several cases), and others basically just ran around wearing them, getting all sorts of benefits out of it. It was ALWAYS illegal to do this, you understand....the law just didn't have much teeth and was rarely, if ever, enforced.
Thus, we get 'Stolen Valor' and all the collateral damage because of that. Another good example is if you own a Medal of Honor that was, say, an ancestors medal. You can legally OWN it...but you can't SELL it. All you can do is 'donate' it to a museum. Nor can you sell anything that came with it.
Again, the weasel-ness of doing that aside, the medal, like it or not, is yours to dispose of as you please. Except now...it isn't. If you try it, the F-Bee-Eye will hook you right up....and it's a 250,000 dollar, multiple year prison sentence.
And yes, they do prosecute this stuff.
Ebay's biggest beyotch is the Purple Heart. As soon as one of the 'medal nazi's' see's one and reports it on there, it gets yanked. Stupid.
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10-26-10, 08:30 PM #13
Yup. I still collect police patches myself but can't afford the badges LOL.
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10-26-10, 10:05 PM #14
Cooool. Thanks!
J
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10-26-10, 10:47 PM #15
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