Jews For The Preservation of Firearms Ownership, Inc.
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The Destruction of Iraqi Firearms
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Dear Mr. Zelman,
I hope that this letter finds you well.
When World Wars I and II ended, many of our soldiers brought home captured enemy rifles. Others brought home more after, or even during, the Korean and Viet-Namese Wars.
Not so in the Gulf and Iraqi Wars. Both Bush administrations seem to think that the last thing we American civilians need is more weapons, especially sniper rifles such as the Dragunov SVD and Iraqi al-Kadesiah rifles that our soldiers have been destroying in wholesale lots. Look at http://www.dragunov.net/ svdaction_iraq.htm for confirmation.
These weapons belonged to Saddam Hussein's thugs and his government. Either they should have been delivered to our Iraqi puppet regime for use as standard military sniper's arms, or they should have been sold to wholesalers here in the United States. Bush is supposed to be a friend of the Second Amendment. You and I know that this is not true, but the No Rifle Association is still pushing the delusion that he is.
If JPFO were to spread the word about the wanton destruction of these Iraqi weapons, some of which were literally gold-plated trophies of Saddam's henchmen, and therefore could have been sold for many, many, dollars, large numbers of American firearms enthusiasts would have to admit the truth.
These weapons are neither sub-machine guns nor true "assault weapons." They are ten-shot semi-automatic rifles. Although governmental press spokesmen could say that their destruction prevents their being used by "insurgent" saboteurs, that assertion cannot justify Americans' legal inability to buy them, or our soldiers' being denied permission to bring them home.
The SVD and the al-Kadesiah are good rifles that many Americans would like to own and to shoot. There is no ethically supportable reason for their being denied to prospective American owners. That President Bush is keeping them from us anyway betrays an anti-gun bias easily demonstrable to any American citizen.
Please consider making the destruction of these fine weapons an issue.
Sincerely,
Gordon F. Corbett
Post Office Box 1262
Port Orford, Oregon 97465
gordon@harborside.com
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