Posted on 01/28/2016 3:24:21 AM PST by RoosterRedux
The famous Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifles have been made in frigid Moscow since their inception 69 years ago. Soon, they'll be made in sunny Florida, too.
Kalashnikov USA has been approved by the city of Pompano Beach to assemble guns there.
Kalashnikov USA of Tullytown, Pa., was importing rifles made by Kalashnikov Concern, the original AK-47 manufacturer in Moscow, until 2014 when President Obama imposed sanctions against Russia following its annexation of Crimea. At that point, Kalashnikov USA severed all ties with the Russian company.
The company started making the guns in Pennsylvania last year, but is shifting manufacturing to Florida. Kalashnikov hasn't said why they are moving or how big the Pompano Beach operation will be.
Kalashnikov USA has recast itself as an American manufacturer of Kalashnikov-brand guns. It launched new lines of rifles and shotguns last week at the SHOT Show in Las Vegas, the annual conference of the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
This included its new Alpha line of rifles with high capacity magazines holding 30 rounds.
The company obtained "light manufacturing" approval in July 2015 from Pompano Beach, which is located on the Atlantic coast between Boca Raton and Fort Lauderdale.
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Don't they know that global warming is going to put that factory under water by the end of 2015?
Actually, that was the original point of the ARAK-21. No stock needed.
Alcohol and Firearms,,,
pass the Marlberrys
and I’m there.
Selling them to whom? BLM? ATF? Park Rangers? Ranger Rick? Postal Workers Union? 0bie needs his new army, you know.
Yeah the AK is cheap but it goes bang and the bullet has a proven record. If I am target shooting give me an AR if I want to kill someone after pulling the rifle out of a mud hole I’ll take the AK or an M1 Garand.
My brother is an AR man, I have always been partial to the AK or gasp the really primitive weapon the SKS.
Folks brag about the accuracy of the AR. I can outshoot an AR with a Garand any day of the week.
A Garand with a red-dot ( oh the horror) is cold death on deer on the east coast.
I love my garand too and that ting you hear when the last round goes down range is so cool!
Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Oh man, Broward county is about 70% Demon Rat.....how funny!!
One of the hallmarks of a great battle rifle is ease and economy of manufacture. If you were a potentate in command of a nation which desired to dominate the world, I can't think of a better tool than a rifle that could be built and exported to trouble-spots around the globe at little cost. The recipients would be grateful, and perhaps good satellites for expansion, should they prevail in their conflict.
1. No one has manufactured AK47s since 1959, the year production changed to AKMs.
2. AKs originally were made by Izhevsk Machine (IzhMash). The Kalashnikov Concern was what emerged from a 2012 merger between Izhevsk Mechanical (Izmekh) and (bankrupt) IzhMash.
3. 30-rounds is a STANDARD capacity magazine, not high.
4. Custom & boutique gun shops aside, there isn’t a single firearms manufacturer in America that sells direct to public. They ALL sell through third-party dealers.
5. The city of Pompano Beach has no authority under US law to license or otherwise control or enable import/export. If they indeed did this, Kalashnikov USA got snookered.
6. Are they inferring that it purports something sinister that the company’s import license does not limit with whom they may conduct international business?
7. Only prototype AKs were built in 1947. The Soviets conducted field trials in the winter of 1947-48 and production wasn’t approved (or begun) until mid-1948. It did not become the standard Soviet infantry weapon until 1956.
8. “...[A] gun friendly state with relatively loose gun laws....” This bit obviously belongs on the editorial pages, not in the “news.” Oh, my bad, ...the Communist News Network has done NOTHING BUT opinion since Breshnev ran the Kremlin.
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