M1 Garand - a danger to America WTF

This is my rifle    This is my gun ...

I remember numbers out of the blue.  Don't know why.  Sometimes it's the combination to my high school gym locker, or my 10th  grade girlfriend's phone number.  While typing this - just now -  I remembered that my grandparent's phone number was  PEnsacola 6-6264. WTF? These are numbers that were important to me at one time. Like the serial number of my M1-Garand, which I don't remember just now, but it'll pop into my head again. Failure to recite that number on the Drill Sgt's command cost 50 push-ups.  Losing it was unforgivable, and the threat of having to pay the Army $103 ( I think it was), or 2 month's pay, was used to reinforce that point. I've  wanted to own an M-1 for some time now,  but $1200? Yikes.  But wait!  The Republic of Korea is about to return tens of thousands of surplus M-1s  to the U.S. for sale in the consumer market. But Wait! “ The Obama-run Washington bureaucracy has classified a common and reliable rifle, the M1 Garand, as a "threat to public safety in the U.S.," and the State Department has canceled plans by the Republic of Korea to return tens of thousands of surplus rifles to the U.S. for sale in the consumer market. The stunning classification of an ordinary gun that was used in the U.S. military for two decades and issued to thousands of soldiers and Marines during World War II and Korea as a threat came in a document by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. It is being publicized by Examiner gun rights writer David Codrea, who said the federal agency appeared alarmed that there would be "no more controls [over imported Garands] than any other firearm." Obama agency busts plan to sell rifles to Americans Now I don't just want one.  I think I'll need it.