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September 14, 2010
No Surplus of Absurdity - 10
by John Haughey
 Second Amendment advocates, gun collectors and historians are angry and confused at the Obama Administration's decision to block South Korea's plan to sell more than 100,000 surplus M1 Garand and Carbine rifles in the United States. The administration approved the sale of the American-made rifles last year. But it reversed course and banned the sale in March. The decision was largely unnoticed at the time, but spurred angst last month when a state department official cited what many agree are spurious reasons for the decision -- namely, the government feared the guns "could fall into the wrong hands" and "accidents." "The transfer of such a large number of weapons -- 87,310 M1 Garands and 770,160 M1 Carbines -- could potentially be exploited by individuals seeking firearms for illicit purposes," the official told FoxNews.com. According to a South Korean official, the U.S. insisted that imports of the aging rifles could cause problems such as firearm accidents. It was also worried the weapons could be smuggled to terrorists, gangs or other people with bad intentions. Baloney, writes David Kopel in his Fox News blog. The South Korean government was hoping to sell the antiquated rifles to American gun collectors, Korean War veterans, museums and other exhibits in an effort to raise money for its military. Photo by: curiosandrelics For more, go to: |
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Comments (10)
i'm sure some of our on gun makers can reproduce 100,000 of these weapons that seem to be in demand ?
maybe our own allies |gun manufactures} have lobbied against these imports and won.there's more going on here than what we see or have been led to believe.
ok this has gone on long enough time for a change,this nonsense has to stop now!
To whom can we demand this sale be allowed to transpire? My father fought on the south bank of the Yalu river to keep the Korean peninsula from becoming totally totalitarian and to preserve my right to buy one of these same weapons he used...despite what this bunch of internationalist, leftists residing at 1600 PA Avenue say. These guys are starting to make me mad...REAL mad.
Beware the government that fears an armed citizen. The only reason they have to fear them is that citizenry might resist that government as it strive for totalitarianism. We have reason to have concerns about the current regime. They are striving for more governmental control of every aspect of our lives. No totalitarian government in the history of the world has failed to reach levels of evil that were not seen by its victims. All of those who said to give it a chance were extinguished along with those who tried to warn the others.
I would rather have them inside the US then outside the US. ie: Mexican border.
That's utterly ridiculous, and very absurd.
I don't think it's possible to make sense of this--uh, gun ... bad ... no. I'd call it caveman logic but that would be insulting to cavemen.
The same administration that's about to sell $60 billion dollars worth of military equipment, including over 300 combat aircraft, to Saudi Arabia is worried about importing a main battle rifle that it stopped fielding decades ago out of fear of the use its citizens will put it to. You can't make this stuff up.
Inside a obama meeting-(m1 grand very dangerous! we must not let them in,they might fall into the wrong hands. But while we are talking about weapons lets sell tons of missiles to tiwain. Man this is boring lets skip to the good stuff,anyone got a idea on who we can bail out next?)
It is scary to contemplate the thought processes, or lack thereof, of our government officials.
Oooohhh---It's a GUN! Bad thing. Save the kiddies. Pass a law. Panic and overreact.
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It is scary to contemplate the thought processes, or lack thereof, of our government officials.
Oooohhh---It's a GUN! Bad thing. Save the kiddies. Pass a law. Panic and overreact.
Beware the government that fears an armed citizen. The only reason they have to fear them is that citizenry might resist that government as it strive for totalitarianism. We have reason to have concerns about the current regime. They are striving for more governmental control of every aspect of our lives. No totalitarian government in the history of the world has failed to reach levels of evil that were not seen by its victims. All of those who said to give it a chance were extinguished along with those who tried to warn the others.
Inside a obama meeting-(m1 grand very dangerous! we must not let them in,they might fall into the wrong hands. But while we are talking about weapons lets sell tons of missiles to tiwain. Man this is boring lets skip to the good stuff,anyone got a idea on who we can bail out next?)
The same administration that's about to sell $60 billion dollars worth of military equipment, including over 300 combat aircraft, to Saudi Arabia is worried about importing a main battle rifle that it stopped fielding decades ago out of fear of the use its citizens will put it to. You can't make this stuff up.
That's utterly ridiculous, and very absurd.
I would rather have them inside the US then outside the US. ie: Mexican border.
I don't think it's possible to make sense of this--uh, gun ... bad ... no. I'd call it caveman logic but that would be insulting to cavemen.
To whom can we demand this sale be allowed to transpire? My father fought on the south bank of the Yalu river to keep the Korean peninsula from becoming totally totalitarian and to preserve my right to buy one of these same weapons he used...despite what this bunch of internationalist, leftists residing at 1600 PA Avenue say. These guys are starting to make me mad...REAL mad.
i'm sure some of our on gun makers can reproduce 100,000 of these weapons that seem to be in demand ?
maybe our own allies |gun manufactures} have lobbied against these imports and won.there's more going on here than what we see or have been led to believe.
ok this has gone on long enough time for a change,this nonsense has to stop now!
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