The horror! Estonia destroys Makarov and Tokerev pistols

[Steyr_223]

Part of some UN treaty I assume, would have made some $ selling these instead to folks in the US.

http://www.689.ru/2006/06/14/kak_unichtozhayut_oruzhie_.html

[Rivet]

That is horrible, but I would not mind to smell that crate full of cosmo.

[CalNRA]

and the former soviet republics are free of organized crime from now on....

now only the police will have guns and the Estonians are muc better off farming mud in peace.

[amzych]

They'd have made a LOT of money selling those here in the U.S. UGH!

[jumbopanda]

*cringe*
*twitching eyebrow*

And this accomplishes what...?!

[pacificcoast]

And this accomplishes what...?!

servitude

[blkA4alb]

and the former soviet republics are free of organized crime from now on....

now only the police will have guns and the Estonians are muc better off farming mud in peace.

Farming their mud huh? Wow where did you find that precious gem.

[The Soup Nazi]

From what some people have said on the matter since this is actually old news is that they did it because H&K offered them a deal to destroy their surplus in exchange for newer model pistols so they wouldn't have to deal with the added competition of affordable comm bocs hitting American shores.

[69Mach1]

That's just a shame.

Worse is the destruction of SVD's in IRAQ by U.S. forces.

http://www.dragunov.net/svdaction_iraq.htm

[Stanze]

Something tells me those are just warm and fuzzy "feel good" PR crates of small arms and the rest of them are being grey marketed as we speak.

[m1371]

Worse is the destruction of SVD's in IRAQ by U.S. forces.
http://www.dragunov.net/svdaction_iraq.htm

Why is this worse?

Think about it for a moment. Those SVDs can't legally be taken out of the country in the first place, so it's not like they'd be put on the market here anytime soon.

I have no issues with US troops destroying sniper rifles over here. Any local seen with one is automatically presumed to be a combatant, since the only purpose they serve is as a sniping tool.

[mblat]

[jumbopanda]

Why is this worse?

Think about it for a moment. Those SVDs can't legally be taken out of the country in the first place, so it's not like they'd be put on the market here anytime soon.

I have no issues with US troops destroying sniper rifles over here. Any local seen with one is automatically presumed to be a combatant, since the only purpose they serve is as a sniping tool.

But they destroyed the gold plated ones too

[69Mach1]

Why is this worse?

Think about it for a moment. Those SVDs can't legally be taken out of the country in the first place, so it's not like they'd be put on the market here anytime soon.

I have no issues with US troops destroying sniper rifles over here. Any local seen with one is automatically presumed to be a combatant, since the only purpose they serve is as a sniping tool.

Parts for an SVD made with a new U.S. receiver and barrel marketed here?
Why? Because they're extremely rare rifles. I do agree with you about taking them off the streets of Bagdad.

[jumbopanda]

They can't bring the rifles into the US, but I'm sure a few of those gold-plated parts would fetch a good sum.