[marktwain]

It is hard to believe that liberals really are this stupid. Shipping used guns here earns them money and reduces the demand for firearms manufactures here to make more. It does nothing to increase "gun violence" in the U.S.

[Adder]

They COULD sell them to their own populace....

But we’ll be glad to take them....

Pics???

[NWFLConservative]

It is hard to believe that liberals really are this stupid

And yet time and time again they prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that they really are that stupid.

[DTogo]

How the sale of Australian police guns threatens public health in the USA

- How the exercise of free speech threatens public health in the USA
- How warranted searches threaten public health in the USA
- How trial by jury threatens public health in the USA
- How the lack of cruel and unusual punishment threatens public health in the USA
- How the abolishment of slavery threatens public safety in the USA
- How voting by women and non-whites threatens public health in the USA

Oh, never mind. It's only the 2nd Amendment RIGHT that's evil and should be infringed upon.

[QBFimi]

>> export thousands of surplus Smith & Wesson .357-calibre police revolvers for re-sale on the US civilian gun market

Yup, a six shooter - the gun of choice for mother rapers and father stabbers worldwide.

[Lurking in Kansas]

....357 S&W revolvers, rarely fired, well maintained, each one with Australian police markings ...

SWEET! I want one ... like, yesterday! I want to know where I can buy one & how soon? The cash is burning a hole in my pocket...

[mo]

This is one of the stupidest screeds ever written. It is beyond comprehension a sentient being ever was paid squat to deposit this drivel in public venue.

[Zeppo]

Most easily concealable handguns such as these, sold from US pawn shops, and with decades of lethality left in them, might never be misused. But some will surely be used in domestic violence, suicide and armed crime. And that’s a risk to public health. . . . What is it that makes shipping thousands of handguns to the streets of America...

Melissa Sweet is a useful idiot, a politically-correct bedwetter.

Hey, Melissa, did it ever occur to you that these guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens will prevent thousands and thousands of rapes, assaults, murders, thefts, and kidnappings over the coming decades?

Why is it that clueless libtards such as Sweet are always singing the praises of government-mandated preventive health care services, yet they are blind to the massive public health benefits of preventing thousands and thousands of rapes, assaults, murders, thefts, and kidnappings through private ownership of life-saving weapons such as these?

[Paladin2]

"...shipping thousands of handguns to the streets of America..."

Nope, no bias there.

[henry_reardon]

excellent, I’ve been in the market for a 357 wheelgun ever since I mistakenly traded my model 19 combat masterpiece for a mini 14.

[Disambiguator]

Smith & Wesson gets to sell Australia’s sturdy old police revolvers on the streets of New York, Los Angeles and anywhere in between.

Yep, US gun manufacturers just send a guy out with a bunch of guns in the trunk of his car to sell "on the street."

/Do I really need the tag?

[USMCPOP]

Most easily concealable handguns such as these, sold from US pawn shops, and with decades of lethality left in them, might never be misused.

What a load of crap.

[School of Rational Thought]

Am I a despot or a tribal fighter?

[jim_trent]

Are they L-frame or K-frame? Inquiring minds want to know.

[Lurker]

These venerable .357 S&W revolvers, rarely fired, well maintained, each one with Australian police markings and decades of history in law enforcement

Sounds like a collectors opportunity to me. I wonder which model? If it's the 19 I hope to be able to get another one like the one I stupidly sold a few years back.

[xp38]

I assume these guns were originally made in the USA so like the swallows to Capistrano they are just returning home.

[deoetdoctrinae]

"These venerable .357 S&W revolvers, rarely fired..."

Even if they were never fired in the line of duty, wouldn't they have hundreds of rounds put through them at the range? Unless Australian police are supplied (like Barney Fife) with just one bullet, then I call BS on Melissa Sweet.

[scramjet]

Bud’s Gun Shop has a new shipment of S&W Model 10’s in 4” and 3” from the Victoria Police Armoury. These usually sell out pretty fast. I picked up a 3” model for $269.00 shipped.

http://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=model+10+38sp+butt&x=0&y=0