Rene Carlos Vos, an arms dealer in Alexandria, began hanging around the Washington headquarters of the National Rifle Association in the mid-1980s. The NRA’s staff was intrigued to see the garrulous, backslapping Vos in the group’s seventh-floor suite, home to its lobbying operation and the chief congressional lobbyist, Wayne LaPierre.Vos and LaPierre struck those who saw them huddle together as an odd couple. Vos took to cowboy boots and neatly pressed western wear.But the two men struck up a partnership. Vos would be temporarily hired as a lobbyist for the NRA, helping LaPierre press the gun lobby’s agenda on Capitol Hill. And when Vos formed the company Blue Sky Productions, which would become involved in importing tens of millions of dollars of military rifles, LaPierre signed on as his partner, state and federal records show.
NRA members you are being used like an organ grinders monkey, they lie to you about the 2nd amendment and you run out and load up on artillery and they load up on the bucks you spend out of coerced fear, how you feel about yourself?
Together, the two friends would play an instrumental role in the early growth of America’s civilian market for military-style weapons.The legislative changes that LaPierre supported as the NRA’s chief lobbyist in the mid-1980s opened the door to the import of military-surplus weapons, which effectively had been banned for two decades. The legislation helped make a new, more powerful class of firearms more readily available to civilian gun owners and begin to shift the profile of American gun ownership.The arms deal put together by Vos’s company — a $58 million venture to import 50-year-old American-made M-1 rifles from South Korea back to the United States — proved so lucrative that other gun merchants immediately tried to follow its lead. Other importers would seek to bring in more military weapons, not just American but also foreign-made arms such as Russian Kalashnikovs and Israeli Uzis, and new business associations sprang up to represent their interests in Washington.
now you know wo has always been the top gun runner in the US, also gives you an insight in to what can happen with all the munitions that the Pentagon does not want and said so but the right wing congress tells them so what and proceeds to shove then down their throats with "we the people paying double and triple, or military lives the fortune made by LaPirre and friends and ultimately your family's lives do to resale with no regulation.
LaPierre should be charged with war crimes heis and has been declaring aggression against Americans by proliferating the country with guns that result as instrumental in todays headlines and news at 11pm.
