Posted on 03/24/2012 6:35:49 AM PDT by marktwain
Anybody checked the ATF’s inventory lately? They like sending guns to violent foreign criminals.
You really should post that on the reuters comment section for the article...it illustrates the propaganda and bias quite beautifully.
Makes you see the wisdom of our Founding Fathers...... Of course the French will just tighten gun laws.
While I don’t doubt that guns are easy to get on the French black market, my first thought on reading of this “stockpile” of guns was “How many of them were *live*?”
When I was in France (twenty years ago, mind you), “demilitarized” weapons were easy to purchase, no documentation at all as I recall. “Demilitarized” simply meant the chamber had been plugged and the end of the firing pin was cut off. At most, I’ve heard that reactivating some of these weapons was doable with some mechanical talent and shop equipment...at the least, sounds like the kind of stuff some wannabe “terrorist” might buy as “toys” to live out his fantasies.
(For the collectors, some of those “demilitarized” weapons I saw for sale would make you either drool or cry. I can still see the MG34 and MG42 on one shop floor, and the pristine M1928 Thompson in another store....)
Rapide et Furieux?
Respect,
GtG
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