At 0:55 -0800 2003/03/30, Bill Stewart wrote: >At 06:09 PM 03/29/2003 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: >>Check out http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48331-2003Mar29.html >> >> If all the Iraqi farmers/civilians have half this guy's stash... > >It's probably safer to invade Iraq than, say, Switzerland, >because the Iraqi government probably didn't trust all its >ethnic minorities with weapons, or at least not enough to buy them for everyone.
Bit on BBC a couple of weeks ago listed Iraq as having the highest private gun ownership rate in the world, after the anarchic warlord states in Africa. Had a nice interview at an open-air gun market, one of the sellers said that Smith & Wesson was quite popular. -- J. Eric Townsend -- jet spies com buy stuff, damnit: http://www.spies.com/jet/store.html
