The Mirror is also saying he has an AK
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/paris-post-office-hostages-—4990007
For a country with more strictly gun control regulations, it really seems like the perps and terrorists have no trouble using AK47s in France.
Could it be that (shock!) gun control doesn’t work?
If I hear an AK47 being fired at people in my neck of the woods, and hear that “Allahu snackbar” crap being shouted, someone is going to be briefly observed through a POSP3-9X42 scope before having their head popped like a pimple by a .308 round.
Something like that is unlikely to happen in France, it seems.
Whatever it was, seems to be over. No more reports on FOX or CNN about it