re: #167 Gus 802

It’s from the Washington Time. Remember them? Home to Robert Stacy McCain and other white supremacists.

There is no backdoor gun ban. That’s pure hysteria and fear mongering. All it was was a decision by the administration to refuse an offer by the South Korean government to sell 850,000 M1 Garands to the US government.

I knew someone would question the story! I thought moonies would be mentioned as well! He he he…

Here is the story from a South Korean newspaper:

Washington Vetoes Korea’s Re-Sale of Old Rifles to U.S.

The U.S. administration has vetoed the Korean government’s plan to sell some 100,000 old M1 rifles used during the Korean War back to the United States. It also banned 850,000 M1 rifles already imported from Korea and other countries from being sold to civilians.

In order to save some W300 million (US$1=W1,181) on storing old weaponry a year, the Korean government decided to sell the 86,000 M1 Garands and 22,000 M1 Carbines to the U.S. and repeatedly asked Washington to approve the deal. The expected price was W130 billion in total, with one M1 Garand fetching US$220 and a M1 Carbine US$140. But the U.S. objected to the plan fearing that they could land in the hands of terrorists.

A Korean government official said, “It’s difficult to understand why the U.S. opposes the deal now, when we already shipped tens of thousands of these firearms to the U.S. in the early 1990s. We are trying to grasp the real underlying cause of this reversal through diplomatic channels.” He added that because these firearms were originally made in the U.S., selling them back needs approval from Washington.