"That being said, 'if' Chavez did buy AK-47's he's getting screwed as they've been sitting in crates for 30 years and I sure wouldn't want to clean all that old and gooey cosmoline off :-)"
Damn right. What would he want those for.
I'll take 'em.
;)
Plus I don't trust any 'journalist' when it comes to firearms as they can't tell an AK-47 from an SKS.
BTW, I've cleaned a rifle that had 50 years of cosmoline on it, took me alllllll morning. It was 'brand new' 48A Mauser. Thank God for "Goo Gone" :-)