{"id":27193,"date":"2014-01-06T11:49:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T17:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=27193"},"modified":"2014-01-06T11:49:31","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T17:49:31","slug":"desert-tech-turns-down-15-million-deal-with-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/desert-tech-turns-down-15-million-deal-with-pakistan\/27193\/","title":{"rendered":"Desert Tech turns down $15 million deal with Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27194\" alt=\"DesertTechLogo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DesertTechLogo.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DesertTechLogo.jpg 288w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DesertTechLogo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DesertTechLogo-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/>Associated Press reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deserttacticalarms.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Desert Tech<\/a> has turned down a $15 million deal to supply Pakistan with precision rifles, citing concerns they could eventually be used against U.S. troops.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Davis, sales manager at Desert Tech, said the company was on a short list for a contract with Pakistan, but spurned the opportunity because of unrest in Pakistan and ethical concerns.<\/p>\n<p>It was a difficult decision because of the amount of money involved, he said, and the sale of rifles to Pakistan would have been legal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t know that those guns would&#8217;ve went somewhere bad, but with the unrest we just ended up not feeling right about it,&#8221; Davis told KTVX-TV.<\/p>\n<p>The company, based in the Salt Lake City suburb of West Valley City, was founded in 2007 on the principle of keeping America and its allies safe, he added.<\/p>\n<p>More on this on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2014\/01\/05\/desert-tech-utah-gunmaker-turns-down-15-million-deal-with-pakistan\/\" target=\"_blank\">foxnews.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desert Tech was on a short list for a contract with Pakistan, but spurned the opportunity because of unrest in Pakistan and ethical concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":27194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[3267],"class_list":["post-27193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-from-the-industry","tag-desert-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}