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Originally Posted by SionEwig
But your economic reasoning is just, sorry, implausible. The political hurdles of importing military grade weaponry and that it's more "evil assault weapons" (going with the proposed conversion to semi-auto) in civilian hands is much larger and harder than I think anyone is considering.
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What is plausible and implausible depends a great deal on what is going on at the time. All kinds of unthinkable things become reality when there is a war on. If anything, we have a tendency to underestimate just what kinds of variations from the norm can be found once the shooting starts. Isolationist USA was duking it out with Nazi submarines in the Atlantic months before Pearl Harbor; and very soon after Pearl Harbor we rounded up more than 100,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry, citizens and otherwise, without due process and threw them in concentration camps deep in the interior. We effectively robbed them of their property, then asked them to volunteer to help us win the war--which they did with an uncommon valor while their parents were behind barbed wire. Truth is stranger than fiction.
Were certain gun-averse members of Congress to raise objections to the sale of 50-100,000 units of rifles on the domestic market, more pro-gun members of Congress could simply counter with "Why are you opposed to helping our gallant Chinese allies?" Then, behind closed doors, the same pro-gun members of Congress could say, "Business is booming, thanks to the war in the Far East. If you don't want a piece of the action in your district, just say so and we'll find someone else's district for expansion."
A lot depends, of course, on the personalities and how they play their cards. One thing to be borne in mind, though, is that less plausible things than the an exception to the import of civilianized military grade rifles during a Sino-Soviet War have come out of the US Congress before and since in real life.
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Originally Posted by SionEwig
If you want to have 5.56 AK-74s available near Vegas for a narrative purpose, then just do so. Don't worry about a justification more than just perhaps, there they were. But like I said, if you want to have it for a narrative purpose, then just do it, don't worry about a justification.
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I'm perfectly happy to agree to disagree about the chances of such a thing happening if the various parties are willing to suspend as much disbelief as necessary.