Dealing in firearms internationally is a trade scrutinized pretty closely by governments, and its practitioners can often end up acting as agents for government priorities, and also victims of said priorities changing. Val Forgett of Navy Arms grew up with his father doing exactly this sort of thing. Today we have some interesting anecdotes about guns going into Cuba and Lebanon, among others…
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I’m really enjoying these historical insights from Mr. Forgett. I was a customer of Navy Arms in the 1980’s and got some really interesting items from them.