{"id":12810,"date":"2010-08-23T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12810"},"modified":"2010-08-23T06:02:52","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T11:02:52","slug":"the-government-our-nanny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12810","title":{"rendered":"The Government, Our Nanny"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Obama Administration is\u00a0h objecting to the re-importation of World War II-vintage rifles<\/a> lent <\/em>to South Korea in the fifties and sixties.<\/p>\n

According to The Korea Times, the Obama administration has blocked efforts by the South Korean government to sell over a hundred thousand surplus M1 Garand and Carbine rifles into the United States market. These self-loading rifles were \u00a0introduced in 1926 [sic – it was 1936] and 1941…Along with AR-15 type rifles, the M1 rifles are the quintessential firearms of responsible citizenship, precisely the type of firearms which civic responsibility organizations such as the Appleseed Project teach people how to use.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The M1 Garand was the rifle that won World War II for the US.<\/p>\n

\"M1<\/a>

M1 Garand (click to expand)<\/p><\/div>\n

Big, beefy, weighing in at ten pounds when loaded with an eight-shot bloc <\/em>clip of 30.06, it’s not exactly the kind of thing you take out to rob a liquor store.<\/p>\n

The Carbine – which is also called “M1”, but is completely different?:<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The Carbine<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s a light little thing, issued to sergeants, officers vehicle crews and behind-the-lines guys who weren’t expected to do much shooting but needed something more intimidating than a pistol in case they did <\/em>need to get out of a jam. \u00a0It round was a little less powerful than a .357 Magnum – but the longer barrel makes it a little more accurate.<\/p>\n

They’re sixty years old.<\/p>\n

According to a South Korean official, \u201cThe U.S. insisted that imports of the aging rifles could cause problems such as firearm accidents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I”m going to suggest that the market for these rifles is the least <\/em>accident-prone one anywhere.<\/p>\n

It was also worried the weapons could be smuggled to terrorists, gangs or other people with bad intentions.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I sat and chewed on that for a while. \u00a0Mexican drug gangs with access to all the modern AK47s and G3s \u00a0their bottomless coffers of money can buy – thirty and twenty round fully-automatic rifles – would trade up for bigger, heavier, less-concealable eight or fifteen round semi-automatic rifles?<\/p>\n

President Obama was elected on the promise that he supported individual Second Amendment rights. His administration\u2019s thwarting of the import of these American-made rifles is not consistent with that promise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Obama Administration is\u00a0h objecting to the re-importation of World War II-vintage rifles lent to South Korea in the fifties and sixties. According to The Korea Times, the Obama administration has blocked efforts by the South Korean government to sell over a hundred thousand surplus M1 Garand and Carbine rifles into the United States market. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12846,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12810\/revisions\/12846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}