U.S. Department of State - Small Arms and Light Weapons Site

U.S. Department of State - Small Arms and Light Weapons Site ^

[FSPress]

The United States believes that the most effective ways to prevent small arms and light weapons from getting into the wrong hands are through strict export and import controls, strong brokering laws, and secure stockpiles, U.S. Ambassador James Cunningham told the UN Security Council August 2.

[FSPress]

Wonder what the Executive branch is up to?

[PoorMuttly]

Muttly's stockpile makes him secure, too.

YOU are your own first line of defense. The bad guys have 'em. I was raised in "a nation of riflemen." I ain't leavin'.

The only drive-bys we had were the Good Humor man.

Even our ice cream was polite...and almost every man in the neighborhood had been to war...and was ready.

A cozy kind of secure.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

Would those "wrong hands" be the oppressed peoples in China, the Middle East and elsewhere who are brutally repressed? They might use those small arms to overthrow the murderous tyrants who keep them enslaved.

[tet68]

You checked out a C&R license yet Mutt?
The big brown truck could be bringing them
right to your door. For Cheap!

[PoorMuttly]

That's a very good idea. We used to have an FFL, until Dad passed away.

There's LOTS of relics I'm curious about (not all of them women).

Oh no. What have you done! (hey, what are friends for...but helpful instigation)

Thanks !

[PoorMuttly]

I'm a hard sell, aren't I.

[FSPress]

I believe that the groups referred to belong in the classification of non-state actors, i.e., generally the "wrong hands".

[tet68]

A Class 3 FFl or Curio and Relic license, costs $30 for
three years, is easy to obtain (if you don't count the weeks of waiting) and all those cheap weapons from Shotgun News
can be yours, while giving Diane Feinstein nightmares or a heart attack.
Century has cracked stock M-39's on sail this month
Five for $250 , That's fifty bucks each for a, Sako. VKT,
or perhaps a "B" barrel.
Some times they have M-44 carbines 5 for $150.
M-48 Yugo mausers for $100.
I tell you it's a disease, but it's part of being an American too.
I have a friend who goes to Sweden a good bit, now over
there they can have guns.............5 yes that's all they
can have 5. If they have 5 and they want another one, they have to sell one.
God Bless America.
Check out. www.milsurpshooter.net

[tet68]

Curio and Relic means any firearm
with a few exceptions, which is over
50 years old.
This includes Enfields, Mausers, Mosin/Nagants,
Carcanos,lots to choose from.

[PoorMuttly]

Now you've torn it.

I'll get on it tomorrow. Among other things, I love (no misuse of the word) to salvage otherwise broken things, adapt them as they require...or have left...and USE the stuff.

America is the best place ever on this planet...and that's why it will always be here...no matter who wants to stop or disfigure it, from without or within.

A man I know who was a Resistance fighter as a little boy...cringes when he sees my brushed nickel Belgian High Powers, because he was too small and weak to rack the slide...goes all warm and fuzzy thinking about the feeling of snapping a stripper clip in his Broomhandle in the dark...found some Loooooong "WWI" rifle, sawed it down (OK in WAR, when YOUR History is about to be erased), and got his commander's undivided attention when the unstable bullets would saw the tops of 2x4's at 20 yards. Science is FUN!

[PoorMuttly]

Big BTW...I do NOT "sporterize" things. I conserve them. I rescue what I can...but when something is very damaged...or only parts, I like to create new utility from the dead. This looks like the site for me.

Thanks again.