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RE: Obama Bans More than 100,000 American-Made Rifles - 9/9/2010 4:12:24 AM

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But in an economy where people are told to start buying to supposedly enable the economic recovery what sense does it make to deny a product that may be wanted and is cheap. Also what about industry if the product being offered for sale is in need of restoration, what industries would benefit from an increase in trade, be they corporate or even a back street mechanic, the latter being preferable down to poverty economics and the availability of payment of the customer who buys a pre owned products.

Where's the money going if it's spent on a product that was sent to Korea in the '50s, and which the Korean government was given on the basis that it would not be sold back to America? It's strange that the people who were complaining about John Kerry buying an Australian yacht have a problem with Obama blocking these from being sold.

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RE: Obama Bans More than 100,000 American-Made Rifles - 9/9/2010 7:01:27 AM

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I do take it that in the US things people buy, they pay tax on? Then there is the distribution, the handling, shipping etc long before a mechanic gets their fingers on the goods. Whatever comes in from abroad always increases in price due to what happens to that product before the customer gets it, everyone takes a cut, is that not good for the economy ?

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RE: Obama Bans More than 100,000 American-Made Rifles - 9/9/2010 8:07:23 AM

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Obama has denied the cheap arming of American citizens, must be scared of something, guns in the hands of the poor unemployed people perhaps.

Don't go out of your way to be dense, it's wasted effort.

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Now whether those guns are firing capable is one thing but the fact that if someone appears to be holding what looks like a capable gun, then visually they present a threat and a visual threat of force can win arguments without even a shot being fired.

A person can obtain a replica firearm for much less than what a surplus Garand would cost and achieve the very same effect. Your argument is invalid.

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RE: Obama Bans More than 100,000 American-Made Rifles - 9/9/2010 8:14:02 AM

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I do take it that in the US things people buy, they pay tax on? Then there is the distribution, the handling, shipping etc long before a mechanic gets their fingers on the goods. Whatever comes in from abroad always increases in price due to what happens to that product before the customer gets it, everyone takes a cut, is that not good for the economy ?

Imprimus, there's unlikely to be any import duty on these things. Secundus, as they've been in storage for half a century or so, it's not like the Koreans have had any manufacturing or maintenance costs for things. Tertius, that's free money for the Korean government (from, as stef has pointed out, an illegal sale) rather than anything that's going to benefit the yanks' economy.

I mean seriously, given your point about restoration and the like, do you really think that anybody cheap enough to pay for a knackered M1 is seriously going to spend anything on restoring it afterwards, instead of just paying a bit more for a gun that still works in the first place?

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