US Government Balks at Sale of Korean Garands
Psst, hey Homie, I got something for ya for dat Kwik-mart heist we gonna pull Friday night. Yeah, it's eleven pounds of mayhem that hurts like hell to shoot, bites your thumb if you don't know how to load it, is fifty years old, and requires stuffing big honking cartridges in little tin holder gadgets that make a loud TWANG when it goes empty...
You don't want no black AR with 30 rounds of fast shooting. You don't need no kool lasers hung on it. You're too buff a player to want a puny six pound rifle. You wanta be Clint Eastwood on lawn patrol, bro!
In the process, we don't want to aid an ally who is seriously threatened. We don't want to allow Americans to access a piece of history that their great grandfathers wrote in blood. We don't want to encourage a new generation of riflemen in the tradition of Alvin York or Audie Murphy.
And we definitely don't want people to know about this US Government program that has been going on for half a century:
Civilian Marksmanship Program Sales
The agenda of this administration isn't hard to discern. They are smug and blatant about it.
3 comments:
I already have my Garand, but that doesn't mean I don't want cheap Garands to hit the market. Everyone should experience the joys that are Garand Thumb and *PING!*
Ed,
Really liked where you wrote
...to allow Americans...
I was aware of the CMP M1 sales during our time in the US and that our son Miles would one day be eligible to purchase.
Since then I have wanted him to own one for what you wrote above. Well also... he might lend it to his Pa!.
Miles is 15 yrs now so still some time to go. I believe their will be obstacles due to his NZ residency and suspect that he cannot take the rifle out of the US. This may be the brick wall.
Thanks for the post. I have registered a query on the CMP site but if yourself or your readers have advice on this I would appreciate it, thanks again.
Re the above,
I got a prompt and polite reply from CMP to the effect that their only policy regarding our circumstance is that they do not ship rifles to an address outside the US.
America,America, land of the free!
All that remains now is to meet the other reqirements over the course of the next three years.
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