Update on South Korean Garands and M1 Carbines
August 28th, 2010
Last week I linked to a story about how the sales of hundreds of thousands of M1 Garands and M1 Carbines in South Korea were being blocked by the US government. Like a lot of others, I suspected the reason was that it was just an easy way for the Obama administration to limit gun sales.
Now more info is out, and it looks like the real reason is that the guns were given to the Koreans as part of a Lend-Lease program, and therefore cannot be sold by them. (via Say Uncle)
If they are no longer needed, they should be returned. At which point they could be sold as surplus by the Civilian Marksmanship Program. That’s Murdoc’s vote. He’s not holding his breath, though.
We’ll probably pay the Koreans to destroy them.




