[dokmad]

"We know al Qaeda training manuals have encouraged terrorists to obtain assault weapons in the United States," she said. "

Personally I find this very troubling. It is yet another sign that AlQuida wants war on our soil. If this cache was caught, how many have slipped thru? We need to start profiling and weeding out potential terror cells here at home, and soon!

[Godebert]

"If this cache was caught, how many have slipped thru?"

This 'cache' of legal firearms was illegally confiscated by Italian Fascists. You're "troubled"? Hmmm.....let us know when you're "deeply troubled".

[tbpiper]

We need to start profiling

Carry if you can,practice often, keep plenty of fresh ammo and be ready to shoot.

[FreedomPoster]

Take a deep breath. Century sells sport utility rifles. This was likely a legal shipment that some customs official got all excited over, for no good reason. Or (dons tinfoil beanie) it has happened as impetus to renew the Clinton AWB.

AKs are cheaper just about anywhere in the world, than they are here. No one comes here to buy AKs.

[537cant be wrong]

weeding out terrorists here:

what is up with our cia and fbi ?
every day spain, italy, germany, indonesia et el
are busting terrorist cells. we know they are here
why arent we knocking heads ? if the patriot act is so intrusive then we should be seeing reports here of
positive results but nothing.
its time to forget political correctness for a bit and
offend some bad guts.

[Woahhs]

Personally I find this very troubling. It is yet another sign that AlQuida wants war on our soil.

If they want another Israel, but with three hundred million million residents, I say "bring it on."

[Radioactive]

Personally I find this very troubling. It is yet another sign that AlQuida wants war on our soil. If this cache was caught, how many have slipped thru? We need to start profiling and weeding out potential terror cells here at home, and soon!

Maybe the government should keep an eye on the Mosques!

[Puppage]

We know al Qaeda training manuals have encouraged terrorists to obtain assault weapons in the United States

Bull! Why pay 400 bucks here in the US when you can get them for 10 bucks in the Middle East? Yet, another scare tactic of the left. This has NEVER been proven. Some would mention the man at the Texas gun show who supposedly had terrorist ties (never proven) who tried to purchase a gun and was arrested & convicted & thrown in jail. Hardly a successful outing.

[Little Ray]

Nope. There is nothing wrong here at all.

Century Arms is a good company. I shop there from time to time, and drool over some of the stuff on their website. They deal in antique, curio and relic, and some older East-bloc firearms.

IMHO, they were (are?) gambling on the AW Ban sunset. When the AWB sunsets they want to be the first to offer some nice semi-auto AK stype weapons with all the trappings (30 round magazines, bayonets, pistol grips, etc.) that have been banned for so long. It won't make them a fortune, but it has the potential to make them a tidy profit. Can you blame 'em? Personally, I think its great that they work so hard (and risk so much) anticipating the customer's wants.

This is just a combination of anti-gun bias, anti-terrorist hysteria, and some fuddled paperwork. Literally, there is nothing to see here - Move along!

[pointsal]

ping

[macrahanish #1]

How will extending the ban keep such shipments out of this country? Criminals don't obey the law.
Although this logic is readily apparent to kindergarten students, it is hard for 'Rat legislators to grasp.

[El Gato]

If this cache was caught, how many have slipped thru? We need to start profiling and weeding out potential terror cells here at home, and soon!

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.