"Just more reason why no 2nd Amendment supporter should ever vote for Joe Manchin or any Democrat"
Posted on 10/13/2010 7:14:45 AM PDT by keep your powder dry
Feds call popular gun a 'threat,' proposed shipments canceled
The Obama-run Washington bureaucracy has classified a common and reliable rifle, the M1 Garand, as a "threat to public safety in the U.S.," and the State Department has canceled plans by the Republic of Korea to return tens of thousands of surplus rifles to the U.S. for sale in the consumer market.
The stunning classification of an ordinary gun that was used in the U.S. military for two decades and issued to thousands of soldiers and Marines during World War II and Korea as a threat came in a document by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
It is being publicized by Examiner gun rights writer David Codrea, who said the federal agency appeared alarmed that there would be "no more controls [over imported Garands] than any other firearm."
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"If I read this right, what they're saying is, every gun poses a threat to public safety in the U.S.," he wrote. "This is the same rationale used in model-specific 'assault weapons' bans – the type of gun is somehow deemed relevant, even though untold numbers of such firearms are already peaceably owned in this country, and even though no supporting evidence for this conclusion exists beyond agenda-promoting speculation."
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
“In my opinion, the M1 rifle is the greatest battle implement ever devised”
- General George S. Patton, Jr.
Source of actual cancellation?
...permission had been granted for the rifles to be shipped to the U.S., then it was rescinded.
By whom? When? WND is not my most trusted source for hard news. It is official? Does the ROK know about this?
Doctors, automobiles, liberal judges, liberal politicians are all threats to public safety. Should they all be banned?
Well, at least the liberals should remain in the banned category.
Bears repeating
The ruling class seeks control
We the People insist on liberty
the two concepts are incompatible
Jeez - you’d think they would at least make the barrel a little more realistic.
I have been around a few, but maybe I am ignorant...
What exactly makes an M1 Garand more “dangerous” to public safety than, say... A browning BAR in any modern caliber, or a Ruger Mini-14/Mini 30, or a Remington 7400? The name? The fact that they came from a military depot?
Kind of like the old - add a pistol grip or a accessory rail to a rifle and suddenly make it a banned assault weapon...
This isn’t about public safety, it is about power and keeping it out of the hands of citizens.
Guns, guns, who needs ‘em. Got Machete’????
Pretty soon we’ll just behead each other like Mexico does.
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2010/10/dozens-of-americans-being-murdered-in.html
...permission had been granted for the rifles to be shipped to the U.S., then it was rescinded.
By whom? When? WND is not my most trusted source for hard news. It is official? Does the ROK know about this?
We don't know. FOIA requests are being prepared for both ATF and DoS to obtain this info.
Yup that NRA has really done a great job!!!!!
That’s the kind of picture that chills a criminals bones, a grey haired man who obviously is comfortable with the weapon. Not too many years to live left and the determination to live by his principles.
"Just more reason why no 2nd Amendment supporter should ever vote for Joe Manchin or any Democrat"
There was a reason why guns and ammo flew off the shelves when Obeyme was elected.
“What exactly makes an M1 Garand more “dangerous” to public safety than, say... A browning BAR in any modern caliber, or a Ruger Mini-14/Mini 30, or a Remington 7400? The name? The fact that they came from a military depot?”
Evidence indicates that the M1 Garand is a proven killer of communists. Therefore, the communists don’t want them back in the country.
“...the State Department has canceled plans by the Republic of Korea to return tens of thousands of surplus rifles to the U.S. for sale in the consumer market. Source of actual cancellation?
...permission had been granted for the rifles to be shipped to the U.S., then it was rescinded.
By whom? When? WND is not my most trusted source for hard news. It is official? Does the ROK know about this?
We don’t know. FOIA requests are being prepared for both ATF and DoS to obtain this info.”
There is also now a pending bill before Congress to reverse the State Dept. decision. Co-sponsored by Duncan D. Hunter, among others.
What’s wrong with the barrel?
Looks pretty much like mine.
Front sight’s perhaps “not quite right”, but that could be the lighting.
There is no bore - just a shallow depression where there should be a hole.
Possibly ... could be the lighting, though.
Did notice there’s definitely a “sling loop” or whatever those things are called where there should be a stacking-swivel.
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