05-08-2008, 02:07 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Rocky Mountains
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| Just makes me sick. I recall when the FBI switched to semi autos. The Bureau had several thousands of Smith and Wesson Model 10's. They could have sold them to their agents for a steal of a price (I think like $50-100 or something). Instead Klinton ordered them to be detroyed.
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05-08-2008, 05:47 PM
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| Moderator   Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Tallahassee, Florida
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| Troy, there does seem to be a policy of the military destroying useable equipment instead of making it available to the surplus market. Being a proud owner of the Kawasaki KLR650 motorcycle, I and many others were hoping the Marine Corp's diesel powered KLR's would be made available to us - NO GO! They are being destroyed! Granted the bikes were never DOT certified, so would be difficult if at all possible to license for road use - but we wanted those motors!  So it is with guns - they destroy them rather than sell them. My Navy frigate, in the 80's, had the M-14 on board for our Security Force. Since we had no Marines, we did our own GI Joe work. I loved that rifle!I made sure I got it during the Security Alerts. It's so far the last gun I need that I used in the service. I have my Remmy 870 and Colt 1911. My little ship got transferred to the Turkish Navy in 1994 - I wonder if those M-14's went there too? 
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05-08-2008, 05:56 PM
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| Lost in the Ozone Again   Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Fort Worth, TX
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| We did that with the T-3 Slingsby's--a nice aerobatic little airplane -- they were grounded and sitting derelect at Hondo. Doubt we'll ever sell them for liability reasons--probably be destroyed. Nothing major really ever wrong with the design either.
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