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In reply to the discussion: Here is when I bought my first gun [View all]Straw Man
(6,925 posts)What AR-15s? Where? Whose army? Whose police? I'm not asking just to be difficult, but to try to determine the parameters of the discussion.
I'm fully aware that the US is a huge exporter of arms worldwide. We supply military weapons to "friendly" nations. Arguably, this is akin to what Viktor Bout did, albeit for slightly different motives, but it has nothing to do with the civilian firearms trade in the United States.
I'm not trying to be obtuse or condescending here, but are you aware that the US military does not use the AR-15, which is the semi-auto civilian variant, but the M4 (and previously the M16), which is the full-auto version? These are NOT available at gun shows. These make up the bulk of what we are exporting to the world, in government-sanctioned armament transfers.
Now that you've said it twice, I have no doubt that you think the gun show loophole is a matter of national security. What I don't know is why. Because crime destabilizes the nation? Because terrorists are arming themselves through gun shows? I'm not sure what we're talking about here.