"Why isn't this market scrutinized more closely? "

Well dianavan ... you answered this question already in your post .."Arms dealers are making huge sums of money" ... a portion of this huge sum of money is used to pay off the ones who have the power to scrutunize. As revolting as it is .... and unfortunately, there are people in power who have no morals and capitalize on this kind of business.

I had a very interesting conversation a while ago with a retired RCMP officer (of a very high rank) ... he had some disturbing things to say why big drug lords (not the mom and pop shops)get away ... it's basically a hopeless situation .... money can buy you virtually anything.

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