To the OP, congrats on your pistol. My father also served in Burma, only with the 41th IN Div.
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Now for my rant: The Ivory Ban is BS.
All ivory does not come from poached elephants.
The Alaska Natives on the Bering Sea live on walrus (among other marine animals). The Tusk of Walrus is ivory.
Many of these natives carve and sell the ivory, its all the cash money these people get.
I was a company commander of a NG unit consisting of these people, When I left the unit they presented me with a carved ivory hunting village. This ivory didn't come from poached elephants or poached anything else. They are allowed to hunt marine animals. It should be illegal for them to try to make a few bucks off the ivory which would otherwise be tossed.
Ivory Village:
