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How Two American Kids Became Big-time Arms Dealers

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Re: How Two American Kids Became Big-time Arms Dealers

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Post by mryan »

GeZe wrote: post #28

The article tries to paint the two dealers as "a couple of stoner kids" , but in reality Diveroli, the creator of the business, was greatly helped by his family situation: "Efraim Diveroli, by contrast, knew exactly what he wanted to be: an arms dealer. It was the family business. His father brokered Kevlar jackets and other weapons-related paraphernalia to local police forces, and his uncle B.K. sold Glocks, Colts a…

I must admit I was looking for this as soon as I started reading the article - I just knew there would be a family connection in there somewhere.

The article also notes that:

* Diveroli's company was actually a shell company transferred to him by his father

* He got financing from someone who worked for his father

Re: How Two American Kids Became Big-time Arms Dealers

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Post by cheez »

wyclif wrote: post #48
forbes wrote: post #47

Good article, but Rolling Stone has the most annoying 'print friendly' layouts I have ever seen. Peppering the article with links to other (mostly unrelated) pages really takes you out of the story.

Yes, that is damned annoying. They need to stop doing that immediately.

Then stop posting links to print versions. They need to make money somehow.

Re: How Two American Kids Became Big-time Arms Dealers

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Post by hallmark »

hallmark wrote: post #25

I was entirely expecting the article date to be April 1.

To follow up, I wasn't expecting the backlash; this was a sincere comment. To believe that two teens could be servicing government defense contracts and shipping arms to Afghanistan seemed far-fetched, and given the timing of the HN submission, I thought at first that the story was a joke.
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