katy wrote:

The ramifications of resident aliens being able to buy guns...the guns
can and do end up leaving the country...the guns end up in terrorist
hands....we've legalized a way for an enemy to infiltrate and destroy us
and our allies...we've opened up a vehicle for gun trafficking that is
based on a leagailty...

I assure you that terrorist organizations get weapons using much simpler
and more efficient methods than smuggling sporting weapons acquired one
at a time in the U.S... They either get their weaponry given to them
buy a sympathetic government, who may well have acquired those arms
through legal channels. There have been reports over the years of the US
government either outright giving weapons to other regimes or heavily
subsidizing those transactions, only to have the same weapons turn up at
later date pointed at US troops or their allies. Then there's always
the arms dealer route, quasi legitimate people who buy large quantities
of arms from US manufactures promising to transfer the weapons to users
acceptable to the US gov'mint, presenting false End Use Certificates,
there have been many credible reports that would suggest that the
gov'mint is perfectly well aware of this, but chooses to do nothing
about it.

Cheers
Marty
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