Garand Gold Discovered In South Korea
September 25, 2009: As South Korea upgraded its armed forces over the last two decades, it has had to dispose of a lot of old equipment. But then it discovered that it had put into storage 108,000 World War II era rifles it had received from the United States during the 1950s. Some of these M-1 Garand rifles (the first semiautomatic rifle to enter wide service in any army) and M-1 Carbines (which fire a pistol class 7.62mm round) had only been used occasionally by reservists, and even these troops have since been armed with more modern weapons. In the normal course of events, these old rifles would be melted down. Fortunately, someone in the South Korean Defense Ministry realized that M-1s sell for over a thousand dollars each on the collectors market. So those 86,000 M-1 are probably worth over $100 million (or half that, if they are all dropped on the market at once). The 22,000 M1 Carbines, which used to be sold cheap, have recently been going for nearly as much as the Garands. For once, the South Koreans will be able to sell a used weapon at a huge profit (since they received them for free, and have only had to pay for storage and maintenance since then).

출처: http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htmurph/articles/20090925.aspx

요약:
우리 나라가 50년대에 미군에게 소총을 무상으로 108,000정을 받았는데,
세월이 흘러서 이것들이 이제 애물단지가 되어버려 그냥 녹여버리려고 하는 찰라,
국방부 관계자 누군가가 이것들을 외국 밀덕들에게 총 1정당 1000달러를 호가하는 가격으로 팔 수 있다는걸 알아내고서
내다 팔려 한다는군요.
아, 그래서 추정 이익이 1억 달러 + α 라네요.


관련기사 또 하나:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8271041.stm
..에 의하면 미국으로 되판다네요. 밀덕 만세!


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