According to The Korea Times, information pills the Obama administration has blocked efforts by the South Korean government to sell over a hundred thousand surplus M1 Garand and M1 Carbine rifles into the United States market. These self-loading were rifles introduced in 1926 and 1941.
As rifles, symptoms they are especially well-suited to community defense in an emergency, as in the cases of community defense following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Along with AR-15 type rifles, the M1 rifles are the quintessential firearms of responsible citizenship, precisely the type of firearms which civic responsibility organizations such as the Appleseed Project teach people how to use.-[source]
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