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Sorry about that, I should have been more clear. I wasn't asking where you buy your guns, I was asking where the guns available for sale in Switzerland come from. I wouldn't be surprised if there are some Iraqi M16A2's out there somewhere.
Generally speaking, property marked guns were never available for sale to civilians here in the US. Some still made it into circulation but not from direct sales to civilians. The property marked guns available around the world were either battlefield pickups (Vietnam, as an example) or guns sold or gifted to allies of the US and then subsequently sold off as surplus by the country that received them (Israel, as an example).
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Or maybe pilfered by soldiers in times where the army was not so good at keeping track of its hardware ?
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The origin of any old gun is hard to track. My M16-A1 definitely spent time in Israel
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But also likely passed in the hands of a British arms dealer
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The XM177 no idea
I have a Norinco M305, totally new, full of cosmoline, that was originally imported by Alan Lever in Canada
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And an NDM 86 originally imported by Kent firearms in Atlanta
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If these things could talk.