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    Quote Originally Posted by Sentryduty View Post
    ...snip... For example how did Canadianicon made Long Branch rifles end up in the country for use by anti-governmental forces?
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    Simple, we gave up to 25,000 from war stores to the CIA for Afghanistan in the early 80's.

    The cover story (??)was that they were stolen for the Quebec independence army, but they showed up in the Afghan insurgent forces.
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