Arms Dealing Quotes

“However, before that I owned a gun store. We were a Title 7 SOT (Special Occupational Taxpayer), which means we worked with legal machine guns, suppressors, and pretty much everything except for explosives. We did law enforcement sales and worked with equipment that’s unavailable from most dealers, which meant lots of government inspections and compliance paperwork. I had to be exceedingly familiar with federal gun laws, and there are a multitude of those. I worked with many companies in the gun industry and still have friends and contacts at various manufacturers. When I hear people tell me the gun industry is unregulated, I have to resist the urge to laugh in their faces.”
― Larry Correia, In Defense of the Second Amendment

“However, before that I owned a gun store. We were a Title 7 SOT (Special Occupational Taxpayer), which means we worked with legal machine guns, suppressors, and pretty much everything except for explosives. We did law enforcement sales and worked with equipment that’s unavailable from most dealers, which meant lots of government inspections and compliance paperwork. I had to be exceedingly familiar with federal gun laws, and there are a multitude of those. I worked with many companies in the gun industry and still have friends and contacts at various manufacturers. When I hear people tell me the gun industry is unregulated, I have to resist the urge to laugh in their faces.”
― Larry Correa

“Between November and December 1985, the Iran initiative reached its nadir. Despite the failure of the Iranian middlemen to obtain freedom for the hostages as promised after the first TOW shipments, Washington and Tel Aviv persuaded themselves they could turn the operation around. However, the next transaction—involving sophisticated antiaircraft missiles—imploded spectacularly after a series of logistical blunders and miscommunications. Worse, overeager U.S. officials crossed lines of operational and legal propriety, leading the CIA, among others, to protect not only itself but the president from charges serious enough to raise the prospect of impeachment. At a closely held White House meeting afterward, Ronald Reagan surprised his most senior aides by vowing to keep the operation alive regardless of the penalty.”
― Malcolm Byrne, Iran-Contra: Reagan's Scandal and the Unchecked Abuse of Presidential Power