Langenator
Member
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.
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.