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Sultan
06-13-2012, 05:06 AM
BEIJING Tue Jun 12, 2012




(Reuters) - China (http://www.reuters.com/places/china) has detained 23 people and broken up an international gun trafficking ring involving a U.S. soldier which had smuggled weapons from the United States, the Ministry of Public Security said.


The ministry said it had seized firearms and ammunition in 16 different provinces and cities in a case that was jointly investigated by U.S. authorities.


Last month, U.S. federal prosecutors said a member of the U.S. National Guard and two Chinese citizens had been charged with smuggling multiple shipments of firearms to China.


http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/13/us-china-guns-trafficking-idUSBRE85C03P20120613

I'm wondering how many weapons they are talking about and how a US soldier gets his hands on weapons as easily as this to smuggle to 16 provinces. It must be a lot of weapons surely.....

Peter1469
06-13-2012, 04:45 PM
20 years ago lots of weapons were stolen from US bases and sold on the black market. I would think it would be almost impossible now. One article that I saw suggest that this soldier (a part time National Guard type) got the guns outside of military circles.

Sultan
06-13-2012, 04:49 PM
I'm wondering how someone can get hold of a huge amount of weapons to sell.

I'm thinking it must be a huge amount right?

Peter1469
06-13-2012, 05:32 PM
I'm wondering how someone can get hold of a huge amount of weapons to sell.

I'm thinking it must be a huge amount right?

I don't think it was a huge amount.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/national_guard_soldier_arrested_iqsT07pSSY4jcpS9pC ew8I