From Fox News:
The South Korean government, in an effort to raise money for its military, wants to sell nearly a million antique M1 rifles that were used by U.S. soldiers in the Korean War to gun collectors in America.
The Obama administration approved the sale of the American-made rifles last year. But it reversed course and banned the sale in March – a decision that went largely unnoticed at the time but that is now sparking opposition from gun rights advocates…
The official story is that the Obama Administration is afraid the weapons will fall in to the wrong hands. My attitude is: almost of all of them will certainly fall in to the right hands – ie, the hands of the American people. The chances that gangsters or terrorists will want the weapons is small – they are large, heavy and impossible to conceal. They are not the weapons of criminals and thugs, but of people who want to defend themselves.
As a matter of fact, if these weapons are in good working order (and from what I understand, they are) they are precisely the sort of weapons Americans should have. Powerful, durable weapons which would be excellent for home defense. They are also, of course, good for target practice or just for collecting a famed weapon – it was with the M-1 Garand that we won the Second World War, after all.
This move by the Obama Administration just shows that gun-grabbing is still intrinsic to the left…they just can’t stand the thought of American citizens being armed.
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