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Posted on 01/21/2015 10:57:00 AM PST by grundle
An American gun company has found a way around the anti-Russia sanctions that have banned imports of the Kalashnikov assault rifle: Make them here, in the U.S.A.
The U.S.-made gun will have same name as the original: AK-47, arguably the most ubiquitous assault rifle in the world.
The gun will be made by American company RWC, which is the official importer and distributor of Kalashnikov AK-47s. The company had to stop importing the guns after the U.S. imposed sanctions in July against Russia for its role in the Ukraine crisis.
RWC said it is not permitted to have any contact with the Russian company, Kalashnikov Concern, which makes the AK-47s.
"We are not permitted to pick up the phone and to talk to them," said Thomas McCrossin, CEO of RWC, which owns the Kalashnikov USA brand. "We were forced to stop doing business with them because of the sanctions."
RWC, based in Tullytown, Pa., has the rights to the AK-47 Kalashnikov brand of guns, which has been produced in the Soviet Union after World War II.
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They got them at their website.
That should eliminate any 922r crap too.
These manufacturers are:
01. Ohio Ordnance Works
02. Firing Line
03. Red Jacket Firearms
04. vector Arms
05. Arsenal USA
06. Krebs Custom, Inc.
07. Ohio Rapid Fire
08. Piece of History Firearms LLC
09. Marshall Arms
10. In Range
Inter Ordnance, IO Inc. also. They used to have quality problems. Don’t know if they’ve been corrected but the bottom line is, as you pointed out, US made AKs are not a new thing.
Most all the manufacturers of AKs use parts obtained from demilled military AKs and add the requisite numbers of US parts to be compliant with ATF Rule 922 (r).
It was not clear from the article whether RWS intends to market 100% US manufactured parts AKs. I guess we will have to see whether RWS can do it.
Those are so nice. And, I happen to already have an AR lower it can go onto.
How hard can it be with real tools?
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