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The Army Plans On Selling Off Its Remaining Arsenal Of M1911 Pistols

Now, if we could just get the Korean Garands back to the States.

It's About Time

Bill filed to bring South Korean M1s back from overseas

The Korean Garands are coming home.

U.S. To Import 87,310 M1 Garand Rifles from Korea

'bout fracking time.

Because its the criminal's weapon of choice...

H/T to Uncle.

On changes in the NFA Trusts

From Comments

Anonymous said...

Based on one of these ex orders the atf has already stated they want CLEO sign off on ALL nfa items, be it a trust or individual. Problem is most CLEO refuse to sign, hence the trust route. The atf still does a background check on the trustee of the trust (I have 4 nfa checks pending since January 2013 that I am still waiting on completion for, and I work or the DOJ !!!) but the request for CLEO sign off will keep thousands of legal gun owners from purchasing NFA weapons. All this at a time when my state (NC) just relaxed their NFA laws by making trusts 100% legal, and allowing the use of suppresors for hunting.

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Worthless Bastard.

Obama signs two new executive orders. Neither is anything but a middle finger to gun owners and a sop to the prohibitionists. Neither will do a thing to effect criminal access to firearms only honest gun owners. When is the last time a fifty year old semi-automatic battle rifle was used in a crime?

One new policy will end a government practice that lets military weapons, sold or donated by the U.S. to allies, be reimported into the U.S. by private entities. The White House said the U.S. has approved 250,000 of those guns to be reimported since 2005; under the new policy, only museums and a few other entities like the government will be eligible to reimport military-grade firearms.

The Obama administration is also proposing a federal rule to stop those who would be ineligible to pass a background check from skirting the law by registering a gun to a corporation or trust. The new rule would require people associated with those entities, like beneficiaries and trustees, to undergo the same type of fingerprint-based background checks as individuals if they want to register guns.

So much for the Korean Garands.

UPDATE: Sebastian has commentary here on the matter. All I can say is since when has Obama let a little thing like the law get in his way. Well?

UPDATE:

It's petty and in the end ineffectual, which might be an epigram for Obama.

At least we don't have to worry about gang thugs wandering around with CMP Garands in their pants. I've never tried shooting an M1 while holding it sideways. Wonder how that would work out.

So much for the Korean Garands

Obama's Proposals Attack Crufflers Directly

Bastards.

On the Korean Garands...

Tester Says Antique Gun Re-Importation Moving Forward

Korean Garands one step closer?

Korea to Begin Broker’s Auction of 84,417 M1 Rifles Destined for USA

I suspect that if we can't get them in-country by November, the Obama Administration, assuming he wins the election, will find some way to screw it up.

Update: The Korean Garands

The State Department announced Dec. 2 that it will re-consider its stance against allowing M-1 Garands into the United States if South Korea offers another sale.

H/T to The Duck.

We may be able to get our hands on...

...those Korean Garands after all. Senator Tester [D-MT] has proposed a possible solution.

He has has introduced the Collectible Firearms Protection Act and it would...

amend the Arms Export Control Act to provide that certain firearms
listed as curios or relics may be imported into the United States by
a licensed importer without obtaining authorization from the Department of State or the Department of Defense, and for other purposes.

Now all we need is a companion bill in the House, passage of both, and then a President that might actually sign it into law. We have a good chance on all but the last I think. Then again, with an election looming who knows what Obama might sign to buy votes.

H/T to John R.

Update on the Korean Garands

Daniel Gallington writes that the Garands being held in Korean are already the property of the United States Government having been loaned, not sold, to them. Getting them back is as simple as the U. S. Army making a request that the Koreans return them. So the U. S. Army so they can then be given to the Civilian Marksmanship Program for grading and distribution to gun clubs and collectors. So why is the State Department characterizing this as a “sale” or “import”? Doing so put the State Department and the ATF into a position to regulate the transfer and plant roadblocks.

How many of you guys and gals are getting tired of this backdoor bureaucratic bullshit?

H/T to Uncle.

Korean Garand Update

Senator Jon Tester has introduced a bill to allow the importation to the United States of American made rifles given/sold to foreign governments. He’s also requested an explanation from the State Department for their current position on blocking the the return of the Korean Garands. Maybe he’ll be able to bully Obama into letting them in and if not maybe the bill will become law. Word is he’s got his head up Obama’s butt on every other issue so maybe he can get this straight before he gets kicked to the curb in 2014.

H/T to Uncle.

More on the Korean Garands

I’ve a question for the State Department. How many M1 Garands have been recovered from terrorists? The State Department and therefore the Obama Administration have banned the return of M1 Garands and carbines from South Korea out of fear they will end up in the hands of terrorists. The hands these rifles would actually end up in are those of honest gun owners who want to own a piece of history. Are these the “terrorists” the State Department is worried about?

H/T to Uncle.

More on the South Korean Garands

Fox News has a story on the South Korean Garands. The Obama Administration is looking for alternatives to bringing them back to the U. S.. Anyone who wants answers as to why importation of a perfectly legal semi-auto is a problem gets ye old bureaucratic runaround.

Asked why the M1s pose a threat, the State Department spokesman referred questions to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. ATF representatives said they would look into the question Monday afternoon, but on Wednesday they referred questions to the Justice Department. DOJ spokesman Dean Boyd referred questions back to the State Department.

The Obama Administration's reasons...

...for barring the return of the Korean Garands, according to the South Koreans, are...

“The U.S. insisted that imports of the aging rifles could cause problems such as firearm accidents. It was also worried the weapons could be smuggled to terrorists, gangs or other people with bad intentions.”

The short answer to that is bullshit. Here's David Kopel's longer and more useful response.

Those Korean Garands ain't coming home...damnit.

What a waste. The South Koreans want to sell 86,000 M1 Garands and 22,000 carbines back to the U. S. but the Obama Administration put the kibosh on the sale citing “safety concerns”. Safety concerns my ass. So what if he doesn’t directly push for gun control legislation. It’s little stuff like this that shows his administration’s true colors. He’s not our friend, but we already knew that.

It would be nice if those members of the House and Senate that supposedly are our friends, at least when it doesn’t require a party line vote so the Administration doesn’t lose face, could do something to reverse the decision.

Via Uncle.

Update: According to comments at Uncle's post the Korean Garands are coming back into the United States through civilian importers. Better than nothing.

Hot damn!

The South Korean are selling 86,000 M1 Garands and 22,000 M1 carbines back to the United States. You might want to keep an eye out at CMP.

H/T to Uncle.