Posted on 12/01/2016 6:54:31 AM PST by C19fan
Between February and March 2016, Australian and French sailors in the Arabian Sea seized small ships — or dhows — smuggling weapons, most likely to militants in Somalia and Yemen. These caches aboard the dhows included examples of one particularly rare firearm, the North Korean Type 73 machine gun. In November 2016, independent monitoring group Conflict Armament Research released a report detailing the captured weapons and their likely points of origins and destinations. According to the analysis, the shipments showed links between Iran and armed groups Tehran supports in the Gulf of Aden region.
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Yes, 6.5mm it was. My dad sold it because he did not like how unsafe it was plus he could not get ammo for it. It was actually my uncle’s gun he was a WW aviator in Pacific.
This ingenious Nork design allows gravity to automatically feed dirt, debris and moisture directly into the weapons action.
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Iran is supporting a war in Yemen with obsolescent Soviet Bloc (I can still say that, can’t I?) gear, which is a very old pattern for those attempting to purchase revolution on the cheap. It’ll still break you, though, and it’s breaking the Iranians. There are signs it’s hurting the Saudis pretty severely as well. There are a lot of reasons why the latter are cash-strapped at the moment, but this doesn’t help.
It was the trigger connector and, yes you could make it fire just by putting pressure on it. google “forgotten weapons”. Ian McCollum over there has a full segment on The Nambu.
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