The Stoners Who Won a $300M DoD Contract

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jun 8, 2015

In Arms and the Dudes: How Three Stoners from Miami Beach Became the Most Unlikely Gunrunners in History, Guy Lawson profiles the three young stoners from Miami Beach who won a $300 million Department of Defense contract to supply ammunition to the Afghanistan military. They bought cheap Communist-style surplus ammunition from Balkan gunrunners, repackaged millions of rounds of shoddy Chinese ammunition and shipped it to Kabul—until they were caught by Pentagon investigators.

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