CBP Seizes 52,000 Firearm Parts Illegally Imported from [Red]China at Los Angeles, Long Beach Port

ktla ^ | 08/24/2019

[BenLurkin]

The parts — sights, stocks, muzzles, buffer kits and grips — arrived in three shipments and had a combined value of more than $378,000...

The parts arrived over a period of three months and were bound for a legitimate US-based gun parts seller and distributor...

The United States restricts imports from countries with which it has an arms embargo, including China. The US imposed an arms embargo after the deadly 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square.

The CBP didn’t say to whom the parts were being shipped, who shipped them, and whether anyone would be charged in connection with the seizure.

[rktman]

See, intergalactic background checks at work. Oh. NOT a gun show then?

[PGalt]

HOORAY CBP!

[tired&retired]

Remember when Bill Clinton outlawed automatic weapons.

The order exempted those in shipment.

There was a shipment of several hundred thousand AK’s on a boat from China that were exempted for a big Clinton donor.

[This_Dude]

Like a shipment full of Legos for me. I LOVE me some builds

[Magnum44]

Most of the stuff listed above makes crap builds. Most Chinese gun parts are crap. American made parts are worth the extra cost.

[Patriot Babe]

I believe that one of those containers were shipped to Oakland, CA port. Approx. 10,000 AK-47 were in that container,Diane Frankenstein was silent on that news.

[moovova]

Were all the parts stamped “Made in USA”?

[samadams2000]

Buy American made guns and accessories. Buy them today.

[Bommer]

So they flood our country with poison food, inferior cheap crap, drugs and high grade weapons, but Trump raising tariffs on the Chinese is somehow bad. Time to background check the Chinks!

[Vaquero]

Of all the guns I lost in the canoe accident I think maybe only one was not made in America.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I still remember 1970, when a Tulsa antiques gun shop was raided by the feds because he imported military munitions. Musket Flints for muzzle loaders. FLINTS!

[SpaceBar]

This particular ban goes back to George Herbert Walker Bush.

[deek69]

So the CBP has seized a bunch of gun parts that are on average $7.50 a piece. I take it they didn’t get a lot of lower receivers?

[sevlex]

Methinks they’re all Airsoft parts.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Yep, I was heartbroken when that Saiga AK-47 fell into the pond. Had it been Chinese I probably wouldn’t have cared.

[familyop]

"Most of the stuff listed above makes crap builds. Most Chinese gun parts are crap. American made parts are worth the extra cost."

Nearly all of the kinds of parts listed in the article are made in China, including some of the more expensive brands. U.S.-"based" companies tend to mask the fact that their products are made in China by advertising that their competitors' parts are made in China. Some federal offices--some of them security related--have even approved the use of some of those parts for their agents.

The issue is about to get more interesting in more ways than one. One of the main gun control plans has been that of increasing prices on parts and supplies. That plan, of course, has already been shown to be a failure.

[Mariner]

Yeah...get that crap off the market.

[Mariner]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Firearm_manufacturers_of_the_United_States

[gundog]

Damn! I was in the market for an economical muzzle.