Obama bans import of 100,000 surplus Garands from Korea

Considering that Lever Arms was selling the Danish Garands (with the new VAR barrels) for something like $165 back in 1998, I think a dealer cost of $220 per rifle is a little steep.

Especially when you factor in all the costs the importer will incur bringing them into the country.

If however, a mint condition Garand only cost me $220, I would be buying a crate.:D
 
I would love to get a garand rifle for that money. Rather get a garand then an svt40 or any of the semi's from the war. I can't see 50000 of them coming here, more likely what was already said some but not a whole bunch.
 
soulchaser said:
“The U.S. insisted that imports of the aging rifles could cause problems such as firearm accidents. It was also worried the weapons could be smuggled to terrorists, gangs or other people with bad intentions,” the official told The Korea Times.

The U.S has a big problem with gangs using 80 year old rifles, do they?
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Yah, it's all those M1 Garand drive by's in Cali dude...
 
The re-importation of Garands into the US has been illegal for years. This has nothing to do with Obama, and I think it actually pre-dates Bush II.

The M1 began production in 1926? That's about 12 years too early.
 
just having some fun said:
The problems the U.S. government cited were somewhat ambiguous, said an official at the Ministry of National Defense on condition of anonymity. “The U.S. insisted that imports of the aging rifles could cause problems such as firearm accidents. It was also worried the weapons could be smuggled to terrorists, gangs or other people with bad intentions,” the official told The Korea Times.
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Yes, of course, because if we don't bring them into the USA (or Canada, etc) then that will definitely keep them from trickling into places like, oh say, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Sudan, Yemen, etc, etc. Idjuts. :rolleyes:
 
How the fvck that guy got into the whitehouse is beyond me.
 
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Yes, the 1968 Gun Control Act prohibits the import of milsurps like these, but if Obama and for that matter, Congress, were truly interested in keeping these firearms out of the hands of potential enemies, they would enact an exception in order to take custody of the rifles for themselves or that of their allies and then put them into the hands of their own law abiding citizens. Wishful thinking, I know.
 
BattleRife said:
The re-importation of Garands into the US has been illegal for years. This has nothing to do with Obama, and I think it actually pre-dates Bush II.

The M1 began production in 1926? That's about 12 years too early.
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You guys are confusing several things. The import of WW2 "Lend Lease" and the various post-war and Cold War lent or gifted military aid is prohibited because the US Gov't technically still owns it.

Also there are some legislated protections for manufacturers from "free" guns that were being dumped into the US market in competition with existing manufacturers.

US guns (assuming not Class3) that were actually purchased by the owning country are perfectly legal for import to the US.

Also the Gun Control Act of 1968 made it illegal to import post 1898 manufactured guns which were owned by any military ~ hence the Canadian "happy time" from 1968-1986 when milsurp could not enter the US, but could come to Canada. The loop-hole was that police contract guns were still perfectly legal for import ~ creating a market for short mauser "gendamerie" rifles which is forgotten today....

In 1986 the "Gun Owners Protection Act" again made the import of obsolescent military firearms legal, which also coincided with the slow-down of imports to Canada...
 
BattleRife said:
The re-importation of Garands into the US has been illegal for years. This has nothing to do with Obama, and I think it actually pre-dates Bush II.
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I have seen other Americans bring that up on their forums before, something about the way those M1s were sent to Korea in the first place. Korea never actually bought the M1s in question, and they were not allowed to sell them back under the terms of the original deal.

If that is the case, this was not Obama's fault since it happened before he was president (The original deal was made with Korea before he was even born.)

I doubt many elected officials (least of all the president) were even aware of this shipment of rifles. There wasn't even a peep about them from any of the anti-gun groups. If anything this was the State department doing it's own thing once again (making completely random decisions on the drop of a hat).
 
do you really think that a nation (and its leadership) that is battling terrorism and trillions of dollars in defecits... gives a damn about some rifles they left in another country 40 years ago... ?
 
The guns were sent to them under SEATO treaty and do belong to the US gvt. South East Asia Treaty Organization. The US will pay korea the cost of destroying the guns, same as they did in the philipines. I have pictures somewhere of the destroyed philipine garands, carbines, P17's, 03"s etc...in the 90's. all cut into pieces.
 
Damn!

can14 said:
The guns were sent to them under SEATO treaty and do belong to the US gvt. South East Asia Treaty Organization. The US will pay korea the cost of destroying the guns, same as they did in the philipines. I have pictures somewhere of the destroyed philipine garands, carbines, P17's, 03"s etc...in the 90's. all cut into pieces.
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Now that would be a cry'in shame! :( :( H:S:
 
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