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CBP Seizes 52,000 Firearm Parts Illegally Imported from [Red]China at Los Angeles, Long Beach Port
ktla ^
| 08/24/2019
Posted on 08/25/2019 1:14:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The parts sights, stocks, muzzles, buffer kits and grips arrived in three shipments and had a combined value of more than $378,000...
The parts arrived over a period of three months and were bound for a legitimate US-based gun parts seller and distributor...
The United States restricts imports from countries with which it has an arms embargo, including China. The US imposed an arms embargo after the deadly 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square.
The CBP didnt say to whom the parts were being shipped, who shipped them, and whether anyone would be charged in connection with the seizure.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
TOPICS: US: California
KEYWORDS: banglist; cbp; china; firearmparts; longbeach; losangeles
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posted on
08/25/2019 1:14:03 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
See, intergalactic background checks at work. Oh. NOT a gun show then?
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posted on
08/25/2019 1:15:39 PM PDT
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/25/2019 1:16:49 PM PDT
by
PGalt
To: BenLurkin
Remember when Bill Clinton outlawed automatic weapons.
The order exempted those in shipment.
There was a shipment of several hundred thousand AK’s on a boat from China that were exempted for a big Clinton donor.
To: rktman
Like a shipment full of Legos for me. I LOVE me some builds
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posted on
08/25/2019 1:35:26 PM PDT
by
This_Dude
To: This_Dude
Most of the stuff listed above makes crap builds. Most Chinese gun parts are crap. American made parts are worth the extra cost.
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posted on
08/25/2019 1:39:39 PM PDT
by
Magnum44
(My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
To: tired&retired
I believe that one of those containers were shipped to Oakland, CA port. Approx. 10,000 AK-47 were in that container,Diane Frankenstein was silent on that news.
To: BenLurkin
Were all the parts stamped “Made in USA”?
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posted on
08/25/2019 1:41:22 PM PDT
by
moovova
To: BenLurkin
Buy American made guns and accessories. Buy them today.
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posted on
08/25/2019 1:48:34 PM PDT
by
samadams2000
(Get your houses in order.)
To: BenLurkin
So they flood our country with poison food, inferior cheap crap, drugs and high grade weapons, but Trump raising tariffs on the Chinese is somehow bad. Time to background check the Chinks!
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posted on
08/25/2019 2:07:11 PM PDT
by
Bommer
(2020 - Vote all incumbent congressmen and senators out! VOTE THE BUMS OUT!!!)
To: BenLurkin
Of all the guns I lost in the canoe accident I think maybe only one was not made in America.
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posted on
08/25/2019 2:13:49 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: BenLurkin
I still remember 1970, when a Tulsa antiques gun shop was raided by the feds because he imported military munitions. Musket Flints for muzzle loaders. FLINTS!
To: tired&retired
This particular ban goes back to George Herbert Walker Bush.
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posted on
08/25/2019 2:44:10 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: SpaceBar
So the CBP has seized a bunch of gun parts that are on average $7.50 a piece. I take it they didn’t get a lot of lower receivers?
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posted on
08/25/2019 2:49:18 PM PDT
by
deek69
To: deek69
Methinks they’re all Airsoft parts.
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posted on
08/25/2019 3:11:08 PM PDT
by
sevlex
To: Vaquero
Yep, I was heartbroken when that Saiga AK-47 fell into the pond. Had it been Chinese I probably wouldn’t have cared.
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posted on
08/25/2019 3:16:58 PM PDT
by
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
To: Magnum44; This_Dude
"Most of the stuff listed above makes crap builds. Most Chinese gun parts are crap. American made parts are worth the extra cost."
Nearly all of the kinds of parts listed in the article are made in China, including some of the more expensive brands. U.S.-"based" companies tend to mask the fact that their products are made in China by advertising that their competitors' parts are made in China. Some federal offices--some of them security related--have even approved the use of some of those parts for their agents.
The issue is about to get more interesting in more ways than one. One of the main gun control plans has been that of increasing prices on parts and supplies. That plan, of course, has already been shown to be a failure.
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posted on
08/25/2019 3:20:37 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
To: BenLurkin
Yeah...get that crap off the market.
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posted on
08/25/2019 3:23:31 PM PDT
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: BenLurkin; All
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posted on
08/25/2019 3:28:38 PM PDT
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: BenLurkin
Damn! I was in the market for an economical muzzle.
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posted on
08/25/2019 4:13:41 PM PDT
by
gundog
( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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