Posted on 04/22/2004 1:51:15 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:21:18 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
April 22, 2004 -- A Florida-based arms company is at the center of the international probe into a New York-bound ship seized in Italy while laden with thousands of Kalashnikov assault rifles, The Post has learned.
The AK-47s were apparently bound for Vermont.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
And one that will escape almost all readers. The few who do notice it will have no effect as they cannot reach the attention of those that do not ( the paper will not run a correcting article).
I'd sure like to stand back and watch that ship dock in Vermont. It must build up a hell of a head of steam crossing the Atlantic. ;~))
A weapon to shoot alternative musicians?
LOL! I had the same thought.
Could it be the SKS?
Since "A" is to the immediate left of "S" on the QWERTY keyboard, a simple typo would be my guess. Only gun enthusiasts would notice, though.
Not after the photo I saw on Fox last night.
These weapons were piled up every which way, just thrown in some giant metal shipping container.
This was no legal shipment. From the way this looked in the photo, there was no attempt to keep them all nice and shiny for re-sale.
Shipments of military surplus firearms are frequently handled in this way. The importer is usually going to do some light refinishing is necessary - and the metal parts of the guns are usually coated with a thick corrosion-resistant goo.
Also, it's not at all clear that the addressee ordered *those* specific firearms - though part of the shipment looks legitimate enough. The SKS and Mauser rifles were all probably legit; and because of the less than orderly packing system used, the AK-47s in question might've been intended for a different purchaser. Alternatively, as another poster mentioned, the importer might've been anticipating a post-AW Ban reality and placed an order for the rifles with the "naughty" features, but the seller mixed up the orders and shipped that batch too early.
Let's see what the importer actually ordered, then compare that with the actual shipment.
I just don't see anything sinister here, aside from Carolyn McCarthy's political opportunism.
Because terrorists follow law, Mrs McCarthy...
This is the part that scares me.
Boca Raton is the area where the 9/11 terrorists lived while they learned how to fly. Boca Raton is where the first anthrax attack occured. Boca Raton is at the heart of the Gore election fiasco (from West Palm Beach down through Miami). The people of Boca Raton can't even vote straight.
I recall reading after 9/11 that the mayor of Boca Raton said that he wouldn't change anything about the friendly atmosphere of Boca Raton, even though the terrorists lived amongst them (I wish I could find a link to the story where he said this).
-PJ
To the "normal person"? Where I come from you aren't a "normal person" if you don't know the difference between a cartridge and a magazine. That's like not knowing the difference between a chicken and an egg.
"Yes except they werent(WASR or SARs), these were ak 47's that they do not manufacture."
The article doesn't state the exact model....though the reporter does say that they are Romanian semi-automatic AK-47 style rifles. The Romanians manufacture a number of AK-47 clones for legal sale in the United States.
No.....I'm not making things up. You have me confused with the anti-gun NY Post reporter. If you'd read the entire thread you would have seen the link I provided to the NY Post article in my post #12.
I remember. I believe they were found in a container at the Port of Oakland. What I don't remember, though, is hearing much about it in the mainstream media.
It wasn't a cache, it was clearly a perfectly legal shipment bound for well know importer. They torch cut the receivers of the AK's and use the barrel and some internals, along with a new receiver, to make the WASR 10 rifle mentioned in the story.
The entire point of this story is to whip up support for extending the so called "Assault Weapons" ban.
BTW, there is no such gun as an SKA, but there is an SKS, a typo in the original story that has propagated to this one. SKS stands for "Samozaridnya Karabina Simonova", Simonov being the gun's designer. It's a semiautomatic, fixed magazine rifle, no different (other than the provision for a bayonet) than any other semiautomatic century,rifle, other than being lower powered than most. The standard magazine holds 10 rounds, but 5 and 20 round versions are available as aftermarket modifications.
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