That Fine Line Between Smuggling and Legal Trade: Anecdotes from Val Forgett @ForgottenWeapons
That Fine Line Between Smuggling and Legal Trade: Anecdotes from Val Forgett  @ForgottenWeapons
Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
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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