I’ve been saying all along that the story of various government agencies buying ammo was really cover for ammo and weapons going elsewhere.
except for 9mm, I don’t think any of the govt buys in the news would fit the predominantly Soviet/Warsaw Pact supplied weapons the Libyans used/stockpiled.
“I’ve been saying all along that the story of various government agencies buying ammo was really cover for ammo and weapons going elsewhere.”
I don’t think that works for the middle east. The huge HSA purchase was .40 caliber JHP. AK-47’s don’t shoot .40 caliber. Unless we’re arming them with .40 caliber pistols . . .
Perhaps. But you really don't need to export arms and ammo to Libya; the country is awash in them. But collecting them and sending shipments of arms to Syrian "rebels" via Turkey is logical. What isn't logical is arming fanatical Jihadists. We did that in Afghanistan and that helped defeat the USSR, but it also turned poorly armed fanatics into well armed fanatics who hated us as much as they did the Russians.