The UN, the US, and Firearms

[Langenator]

Everyone on this board knows that the UN hates civilian ownership of guns just as much as DiFi, the VPC, and the Bradys. And they like to cast aspersions on "lax American gun laws" for the thousands of people killed by small arms in Third World countries every year, in spite of the fact that none of the AKs you can buy for $50 in Mogadishu have ever been to this country.

Having recently received my C&R license, I now see that the UN is looking at the issue of US gun laws all wrong. Instead of (wrongly) blaming the US for the glut of small arms available in the Third World, they should be thanking us that it isn't worse. As stated before, you can buy an AK for around $50 in Africa. But here in the US, an SKS goes for $100 and up. If you were a formerly communist nation with warehouses full of old surplus rifles and in search of some quick easy cash, where would you sell those rifles? Sierra Leone, where you might get $5-10 for those old Mosins, or the US, where you can easily get 10x that? Supply goes where the demand is, and simple capitalist economics means those lovely old rifles are coming here.

Maybe we can get the UN to lobby Congress to allow the importation of all those AKs. Taking all those rifles off the market, and giving some moeny to the Third World in the process...it's the least we can do...for the children.

 

[Mark Tyson]

Yes! We must do our duty to take those guns out of third world war zones ...

... and put them in our safes!

 

[BluesBear]

Give us your poor, your tired, your hungry, your cosmolined bores yearning to be scrubbed clean..

And just like the old days ,when they imported and sold everything, lets be able to order all of it by MAIL!

 

[MrAcheson]

We get blamed for a lot of weapons proliferation that isn't our fault. All those land mines killing kids? Not ours. Likewise assault weapons, RPGs, and most man-portable anti-aircraft missiles. Almost all that stuff is made by the Communist and former Communist nations. The US is usually pretty careful about who we give weapons to. not so with our adversaries in the Cold War. Plus our stuff is fairly expensive in comparison to Russian gear. There are a few US weapons out there thanks to what we sold Iran or gave the Mujahedeen (sp?) but only a few.

But yeah, open up the US market. We'll buy your guns and put them in our safes. Works for me.

 

[WilderBill]

Great idea.
Won't happen, though.

The UN wants to disarm us so that when they come in and proclaim themselves to be our new, ligitamate government, we won't give them much of a hard time.

 

[Werewolf]

The UN wants to disarm us so that when they come in and proclaim themselves to be our new, ligitamate government, we won't give them much of a hard time.

:banghead: That would indeed be the straw that breaks the proverbial camel's back.

 

[Drjones]

Let's collect all the small arms and use them against the UN!

 

[Langenator]

As for me, I hereby volunteer to give a good home to 2 AKs, an RPK, and a PKM.

Just to ensure nobody gets hurt by them.