Posted on 02/12/2005 6:07:23 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
"I was thinking of our LEO's tasked with defending against terrorism and handling drug interdiction as well as the instability in that region that could be fomented or worsened by narco-terrorists."
You don't really think there is a shortage now that these weapons will fill later in the automatic weapons black market, do you? 100K Kalashnikov rifles ain't spit to the existing black market. Also, in the time it would take to deploy Nat'l Guard troops from them sitting at home they can bring them back from anywhere on the globe and put them to work with any domestic problem.
"Too many", or "the bad kind" of any firearm...NOT the problem.
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