Ignition Override
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Being not only a late-bloomer with guns, my so-called knowledge of issues discussed on these forums is vague and frankly very 'entry-level', at best.
Yesterday at a small town gun show I asked a couple of sellers whether imports of some foreign .303 surplus is being blocked by Customs or other appointees of our new Administration and these gents had either read or heard that it is seriously hindered. Maybe overall supplies of certain old calibers really have simply dried up due to consumption.
Along with other problems for the NRA, do they have the finances and staff to try to keep such imports of POF .303 etc open, assuming that other countries want to sell it, versus destroying it? As for other surplus ammo, there is either a huge amount of former Warsaw Pact x54R ammo stored by US distributors, or it is still imported now and then.
Or is this situation not the case? I've read about the west. Euro organization which sends Euro taxpayer dollars to subsidize destruction of vast numbers of eastern European AKs etc, keeping some out of the hands of weapons merchants, hindering deliveries to insurgent/rebel war lords in Africa etc.
Maybe part of the problem lies within our State Dept.
As a different type of example, the foreign airlines which are approved to operate into US airports by the FAA is covertly influenced by our State Dept relations. The FAA safety "mantra" often reflects only proper documentation, which does not always equate to airworthy aircraft systems or flight ops cultures focused on safety, in the western mold.
Is this a critical factor for which countries can export ammo to us, i.e. from Pakistan, India or other regions? Just bought my second Lee-Enfield yesterday.
Public pressure last spring stopped the DOD (hidden Obama Cabinet manipulation?) from planning to destroy all once-used 5.56 brass, so that it could not reach the civilian suppliers intact.
Can foreign ammo imports also be increased by more concentrated public pressure? I look forward to reading comments of those who are well-informed about these issues and hope that my impressions from rumours and hearsay are mistaken.
This must all pale in comparison to the insidious attempts to heavily tax or ban all ammo and components etc, or what some in the Kalifornien Demokratischen Republik would like to legislate. It just seems as if foreign surplus or newer low-cost ammo might be the last good deal, whether Bulgarian, Czech, Polish 7x54R, 7x25, whichever old .303 or newer Russian x39, 5.45x39.
Yesterday at a small town gun show I asked a couple of sellers whether imports of some foreign .303 surplus is being blocked by Customs or other appointees of our new Administration and these gents had either read or heard that it is seriously hindered. Maybe overall supplies of certain old calibers really have simply dried up due to consumption.
Along with other problems for the NRA, do they have the finances and staff to try to keep such imports of POF .303 etc open, assuming that other countries want to sell it, versus destroying it? As for other surplus ammo, there is either a huge amount of former Warsaw Pact x54R ammo stored by US distributors, or it is still imported now and then.
Or is this situation not the case? I've read about the west. Euro organization which sends Euro taxpayer dollars to subsidize destruction of vast numbers of eastern European AKs etc, keeping some out of the hands of weapons merchants, hindering deliveries to insurgent/rebel war lords in Africa etc.
Maybe part of the problem lies within our State Dept.
As a different type of example, the foreign airlines which are approved to operate into US airports by the FAA is covertly influenced by our State Dept relations. The FAA safety "mantra" often reflects only proper documentation, which does not always equate to airworthy aircraft systems or flight ops cultures focused on safety, in the western mold.
Is this a critical factor for which countries can export ammo to us, i.e. from Pakistan, India or other regions? Just bought my second Lee-Enfield yesterday.
Public pressure last spring stopped the DOD (hidden Obama Cabinet manipulation?) from planning to destroy all once-used 5.56 brass, so that it could not reach the civilian suppliers intact.
Can foreign ammo imports also be increased by more concentrated public pressure? I look forward to reading comments of those who are well-informed about these issues and hope that my impressions from rumours and hearsay are mistaken.
This must all pale in comparison to the insidious attempts to heavily tax or ban all ammo and components etc, or what some in the Kalifornien Demokratischen Republik would like to legislate. It just seems as if foreign surplus or newer low-cost ammo might be the last good deal, whether Bulgarian, Czech, Polish 7x54R, 7x25, whichever old .303 or newer Russian x39, 5.45x39.
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