If I recall correctly the Saber facility and tooling has already been bought.
I think the executives responsible for this are going down but Saber should come through it in one way or another.
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If I recall correctly the Saber facility and tooling has already been bought.
I think the executives responsible for this are going down but Saber should come through it in one way or another.
Be careful what you type...Quote:
In 2004, Shearon wrote Savage an email stating, "The 100 barrels without chambers will be ready Mon. or Tues. if we can find someone dumb enough to sign the shipping documents we will send them to you."
This stuff sounds like something you'd read in a bad mystery novel.
This sounds horrible when you read it, but read it a second time and think about what is actually being said.Quote:
By 2007, Sabre officials were going as far as calling silencers "lawn mower mufflers" and rifle barrels "gear shafts" in their effort to fly under the radar of regulators.
Who were the "officials", they list the names in the rest of the article, why no names here.
What was the context? Take note that it does not say they made these comments to anyone in particular. Who has the job title of "regulator"? Again, where are the specifics?
What I read from that line is that if any of the readers here and myself are going to go shooting, and I talk about bringing my blaster, that someone will say I was talking about a sand blaster in an effort to avoid raising flags.
Work with the feds a little and watch how "tenacious" they can be with some things. Mislabeling parts and trying to skirt ITAR is just plain stupid, but the weapons ended up with countries that are our allies. Labeling SABRE as supplying weapons to the Middle East has the taint of supplying terrorists, and that doesn't sound even close to what happened here. I see white collar crime with them avoiding taxes and paperwork.
Unfortunately we don't know who exactly got those weapons in those countries so we can't really say our allies got them.
Case in point. When I was in Iraq the company I worked for had weapons stolen from the customs holding area. It wasn't discovered until we went to pick them up.
Their response was the crates must have been empty when they arrived. Insha' Allah. Corruption is pervasive throughout the entire Middle East.
If there was the remote possibility that anything could be tied to a group that was anti-US, that would have been clearly listed, and would probably have been the title of the article.
Anyone who has done LE work with the Feds knows exactly what I mean. They play hardball and are masters at how things are scripted when they are written out.
I'm obviously not an advocate for Sabre, just pointing out some additional things. Duplicate serial numbers would have been enough to fry them, but I would be interested to know what parts actually violated ITAR. Barrels without chambers are just pipes....
One things for certain, sabre defense in finished.