It’s not often that you’ll find a company who will turn down money based on moral grounds these days, but a firearms manufacturer in Salt Lake City, Utah is doing just that after being asked to supply sniper rifles to Pakistan.

After being approached by the Obama administration with a $15 million contract to supply weaponry to the Pakistan government, Desert Tactical Arms announced they had turned down the money because they feared the weapons would someday be used to kill US troops.

They issued a statement on their Facebook Page that read:

In 2013 we faced a moral dilemma that I wanted to get some opinions on. The current US administration is sponsoring FMS arms sales to Pakistan forces. In 2013 We had been approached with a multi-million dollar opportunity to legally supply sniper systems to Pakistan. I was never in the armed services but we employ several military veterans. Our greatest fear was that our equipment might be used against US troops. I started this company to protect Americans not endanger them. In consulting with other arms companies the general responses I got was, if they don’t buy it from you, then they will get it somewhere else, or money is money. After much internal review we elected not to sell to Pakistan. I wanted to throw this out to our military friends to see if our concern was legitimate and hear your thoughts on it.

While it’s good to finally see a company take a stand, and realize there’s more to life than profits, I think the bigger picture here is that our government continues to attempt to disarm the American public, while at the same time using tax payer dollars to fund rogue nations that support terrorism. Seems like an odd agenda!

On one hand, the federal government continues to insist that guns in the hands of the American public are somehow responsible for an increase in violence. What’s weird, is this same government seems to have no problem sending these same guns, and in many cases ones that are much more powerful, to nations that hate America and thrive off violence.

If you remember, in September of last year it was the Obama administration, who while pushing gun control here in America, waived restrictions in the Arms Export Control Act so they could send military weaponry to Syrian rebels – the same rebels who had been directly linked to Al Qaeda terrorists. $250 million in US taxpayer money went to supporting these so-called rebels.

Americans really need to wake up and start asking themselves who the same guns that are supposedly bad in the hands of American citizens seem to be perfectly fine in the hands of countries that support terrorism.