Speaking Of Those "Made In The USA" Tear Gas Canisters...

[WillyT]

29.JAN.2011 EGYPT PROTEST PICTURES HIGHLIGHT THE ARMS TRADE’S UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
BY: COREY PEIN

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Most of the time, mainstream news organizations are loathe to cover the arms trade. Sometimes, though, its consequences are impossible to ignore. This is one of those times. Anyone with internet access can see American weapons, provided to Hosni Mubarak’s deeply unpopular government, on the other side of what is widely viewed as a democratic uprising.

Following Al Jazeera’s live reports yesterday of “Made in the USA”-stamped tear gas canisters being fired on Egyptian protesters, CNN, ABC News and many other news outlets ran stories about the provenance of these reviled crowd-control weapons.

The iconic canisters were manufactured by Combined Systems Inc. of bucolic Jamestown, Pennsylvania. The company was founded by Michael Brunn and Jacob Kravel, pictured.



Today, CSI, a privately held company, is controlled by Point Lookout Capital Partners, whose managing directors, Michael A. Monteleone and James J. Cesare, sit on CSI’s board. Point Lookout’s 2005 purchase of CSI was backed by the politically connected private equity giant The Carlyle Group, which took a minority stake in the munitions company.

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Link: http://www.warisbusiness.com/news/egypt-protest-pictures-tear-gas-abrams-tanks/

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[Marblehead]

1. they love this

more business for them, sick

[old mark]

2. K&R, dude, we make GREAT teargas and "crowd control" items here in the

land of the free! Dictators we support soak 'em all up!
We CAN compete with the world!


mark

[somone]

5. We're Winning The Future

aka WTF

[somone]

3. Who said manufacturing is dead in America?

:sarcasm:

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. so, we have not exported ALL the jobs, then?

[Tejas]

6. Can US citizens own those canisters? n/t

[RC]

7. New or used?

[formercia]

8. Probably

but the weapons to fire them might be a different question.

Many local jurisdiction ban the possession of Tear Gas because it has been used by criminals.

[provis99]

9. of course.

if you can own a rocket launcher, a machinegun, or a fighter jet, you can own a tear gas canister.

[Tejas]

11. No fighter jet, I would love a P51 Mustang w/nose art!

rumpityrumpityrumpityrumpityrumpityrumpity

:)

[customerserviceguy]

10. We paid for them, why shouldn't they be made here?

Or should that be outsourced to China, too?

Egyptians know that the US has been pumping billions of dollars into their economy since the Camp David Accords, and they know that a lot of it is military aid. They like the fact that US military aid has helped the Egyptian air force achieve parity with the Israeli air force, all we ask is that they not use their toys.

This is the other side of that coin.

[WillyT]

12. Kick !!!

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[upi402]

13. So, can I have my racket loncher now Santa?

WTF, can we be morther stupider/?