Snapper Posted March 26, 2007 Share Posted March 26, 2007 I saw a crop of pictures from the Philippines last Friday. The government were holding a big ceremony to start off a huge bout of smallarms destruction. They do these things regularly when they have captured enough stuff off the various malcontents around the contry. For Vietnam era fans there were several hundred early model M16s going into the mincer along with some curious home made things built from bits of AK and IKEA. But worst of all was a vast number of Garand rifles. It's a shame someone doesn't let these governments know what a good deal they would have going if they only sold the things for deactivation. There must be thousands of Garands and other gems knocking around in countries supplied weapons by the US in the immediate post war. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whistlinwolf Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 My Garand was one of a batch that came from Vietnam a few years back so it is possible for them to do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snapper Posted March 28, 2007 Author Share Posted March 28, 2007 You make a really interesting point. I am not a gun collector, Mrs B is not a fan of firearms and begs to differ on my view of them; but the idea that all this history goes into a mincer for a good purpose on one level, there is an argument that these governments could make some good ready cash from recycling weapons to western collectors. Perhaps a lot of them do already, as you have illustrated. Fancy setting up an imports busines, Jack? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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