Posted on 06/03/2010 6:31:42 PM PDT by Bad~Rodeo
Police in Texas have seized a cache of weapons allegedly being smuggled to drug gangs in Mexico.
The haul, in Laredo on the US-Mexico border, included assault rifles and thousands of rounds of ammunition.
Police say it was one of the largest weapons shipments found in recent years. Two men
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Dealer price was about $225. From 2003 to 2005 you could go on Gunbroker and get them in multiples of 4+ for $250 each from many dealers.
Weren’t these being smuggled into the US?
Wow. At that price, you kinda have to buy em. Cept I live in KahleeFawn-EE-AHH
Yeah, guns used to be pretty cheap. Every now and then there’s still good deals to be had. The trick is to buy them over the internet and have them shipped.
All is not lost, though. In CA you can get an off list AR-15 lower and make it into a “pre-ban” style rifle simply by adding a bullet button.
I know this is crappy referencing, but following are anecdotes about most of those countries.
Islamic Republic of Iran. The possession of arms, however, requires the granting of permission by the competent authorities.
As U.S. history shows, one way to get rid of a despotic regime is to rise up against it. That threat is why authoritarian regimes such as Syria, Cuba, Rwanda, Vietnam, Zimbabwe and Sierra Leone endorse gun control
A 1951 Burma law bans possession of automatic weapons, grenades, and explosives with the intent to commit high treason. A rather narrowly-tailored law, at first glance.
However, the law states that the President can by decree add “any other arms or ammunition” to the banned list. And any person with a banned weapon is presumed guilty of intending to commit high treason, and required to prove his innocence:
El Salvador has strict laws requiring a locally obtained license to possess.
The Cambodian law bans the distribution, trading or hiring of any of the tens of thousands of weapons and rounds of ammunition left behind by decades of civil war, dating back to the Khmer Rouge genocide in the 1970s.
From a hunter in Lebanon:
Regarding the Gun Laws in Lebanon, it all depends who you are and what political party you follow! Long story made short; the good guys have to get a license for their hunting guns while the bad guys can have a missile at home and no one would bother them :-)
And here's what I mean by spirit. A lot of these places don't want guns and will support dictators until they are too dead to do it anymore.
Local NGOs carried out surveys on about 200 people aged between 20 and 35 in Lebanon’s capital Beirut, the Bekaa valley and in the south; in Ramallah in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, West Bank and the northern Gaza Strip. Also in the area of Al-Haj Yousif near Khartoum, Sudan. Asked whether they wanted stricter state controls on private gun ownership, 82 percent of respondents said yes.
Slave mentality, like Britain and Australia.
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