Nothing like willing sellers' and willing buyers.
A thing of beauty, eh?
State Metal Industries, a Camden, N.J., company convicted in June of violating export laws over a shipment of AIM-7 Sparrow missile guidance parts it bought from Pentagon surplus in 2003 and sold to an entity partly owned by the Chinese government. The company pleaded guilty to an export violation, was fined $250,000 and placed on probation for three years. Customs and Border Protection inspectors seized the parts -- nearly 200 pieces of the guidance system for the Sparrow missile system -- while inspecting cargo at a New Jersey port."Our mistake was selling it for export," said William Robertson, State Metal's attorney. He said the company knew the material was going to China but didn't know the Chinese government partially owned the buyer.
Rooooooigghhht.
Ya gotta love these idiots who put their pockets over their patriotism. These are the same morons that will be whining for the US military to come save their dumb butts when all of these "surplus" parts they gleefully sold to China are pointed back in our direction!