87,000 returning to the US

I guess this high capacity clip for the Garand means the Obama administration won’t let them be imported:

Mentioned it a few times and it looked like they were going to be imported. Well, now the Obama administration is saying no to the M1 carbines: The Korea Times is reporting that while it has (sic) will allow 86,000 historical M1 Garand rifles to be imported from South Korea, the Obama administration continues to […]

It looks like the .gov has unfucked itself and they will be imported: The U.S. is set to import antiquated firearms from South Korea that were previously banned from entry, officials here said Thursday. Defense ministry officials said the United States has approved imports of M1 Garrand rifles, which were used by U.S. forces during […]

Daniel Gallington says they belong to the US.

They already shipped tens of thousands of these back in the 1990s.

Via Kopel, Maxim Lott discusses the Obama administration’s role in this: The South Korean government, in an effort to raise money for its military, wants to sell nearly a million antique M1 rifles that were used by U.S. soldiers in the Korean War to gun collectors in America. The Obama administration approved the sale of […]

Looks like they can’t be sold to the US because they actually belong to the US.

No, you can’t have one: The U.S. government opposed South Korea’s bid to sell hundreds of thousands of aging U.S. combat rifles to American gun collectors, a senior government official said Thursday. The ministry announced the plan last September as part of efforts to boost its defense budget, saying the export of the M1 Garand […]

Everything old is new again. Hey, remember the Obama gun policy mentioned years back? Well, it’s back. Pretty much a reason not to favor a second term. Speaking of, the Korean garands are back too.

Senator Tester doesn’t like the Korean Garand situation: Senator Jon Tester is introducing legislation to allow American-made guns that were given or sold to a foreign government to be re-imported and sold in the U.S. Tester’s Collectible Firearms Protection Act comes days after he pushed the U.S. State Department to reconsider a decision denying the […]

Read the whole thing: Jim Richardson was aware of the odds when he made up his mind on a birthday gift for his father, Virgil Richardson of Davison Township. The 54-year old Frankenmuth man wanted to track down the M1 Garand .30-caliber rifle his father carried more than 50 years ago as a soldier in […]