Bills pending to return M1's to US -- write your congressperson

[mistertrickster]

Please write (e-mail) your Congress critter about this:

S. 381 & H. R. 615

To amend the Arms Export Control Act to provide that certain firearms listed as curios or relics may be imported into the United States by a licensed importer without obtaining authorization from the Department of State . . .

These bills sponsored by Sen. John Tester (D-Mont) and Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo) seek to overturn the State Dept's refusal to repatriate historic M1 Garand rifles and M1 Carbines furnished to South Korea after WWII.The Obama administration first okayed the reimportation of these historic arms but later the State Dept. blocked it (because it had approved the export many decades earlier, it had the legal standing to do this).

We need to get these historically important rifles back for future generations before they are lost forever.


M1 Garand Rifle .30-06 (introduced in 1936)


M1 Carbine .30 caliber (introduced in 1942)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-upMTABpHL4&feature=player_embedded#!