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guns-n-painthorses, a question....

Matt45Matt45 Member Posts: 3,185
edited January 2002 in General Discussion
My guess is that you didn't see Dreads post:AK47 from 911 Scrap http://forums.gunbroker.com/images/Forum3/HTML/012736.html The question I thought you might be able to answer is why? Why is scrap being sent overseas and not being used here? Isn't this steel better and of higher quality than what is currently made, at least on average?
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm not g&ph's but it could result from a notion that the general public in America may have too much emotion tied to the incident and the market for such things does not create a stronger demand than the overseas markets.
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  • Matt45Matt45 Member Posts: 3,185
    edited November -1
    Ids-I don't think so, this sounds more like someone getting greedy off of misfortune. IMHO if American big business (the owners & leasees of the WTC, American steel smelters and major chemical corporations) were smart they could turn this into a shameless PR coup for them, but bigger than that, make a statement on the behalf of our country.Why not have the steel sent to an Allentown PA smelter, (Re-open one that's been closed?? Put folks back to work, at least for a short time?) Smelt the stuff down, roll it out and manufacture "Dumb" bomb casings, grenades, 155 and 105 shells and the like. Send 'em to Red River, or wherever ordinance is produced, stuff 'em to specs, and ship it out ASAP to the supply trains leading to the 'Stan countries.Then give it all to the bastards, one munition at a time.
    Reserving my Right to Arm Bears!!!![This message has been edited by Matt45 (edited 01-29-2002).]
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  • guns-n-painthorsesguns-n-painthorses Member Posts: 6,462 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well, The market here won't support a 200,000 ton imput jump like that. The steel is top quality and the exporters know it. Dread was right about the ak's from this type of scrap. It is easier to build wepons out of #1 steel than it is soup cans. I think a lot of this stuff will stay stateside, but not all. The japs will import millions of tons of scrap this year, some will be rolled into new rail, sent back here, shipped halfway across the US, and sold to the railroads cheaper that they could buy it here? How does that work?
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