I encourage everyone to sign this online petition. It is to encourage the Federal government to add additional surplus military rifles (Korea era) to the Civilian Marksman program already running. This is instead of paying contractors hundreds of millions of dollars to destroy surplus rifles. In these days, we need to government to continue to find ways of conserving funds rather than wasting funds on destroying materials for which taxpayers have already paid.
Here is the financial crux of the matter (from the petition itself):
Practical Savings
What then is the bottom line on all this? The answer is: money. The U. S. Treasury could be fattened considerably by the sale of these rifles in two ways. First, a contract to demilitarize the rifles would not have to be let thereby saving approximately $500,000 per contract. Second, assuming the Secretary of the Army authorizes the sale of M14′s in the same quantity as M1 rifles, about 1200 per year, and a price is established that is commensurate with their collector’s value (the Carson City Silver Dollar Sale is recent precedent), the government can expect $400 to $650 per weapon.
The M1 rifle sale held yearly has never failed to attract thousands more buyers than there are available weapons. Since the M14 is a prized collector’s weapon, I would expect nothing less to happen during an M14 sale.
Here is the link to the on-line petition:
http://www.petitiononline.com/M14CMP03/petition.html
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