Posted on 04/09/2015 4:07:27 PM PDT by Olog-hai
As ISIS first blitzed across northern Iraq in June 2014, the militants seized large quantities of US arms and vehicles from the fleeing Iraqi forces.
Over the almost past year of fighting, however, ISIS has gone from fielding large quantities of US weapons to using a mixture of Iranian, Chinese, Russian, Soviet, and Sudanese ammunition.
According to a fact sheet from the Forum on Arms Trade, citing the Conflict Armament Research (CAR) and the Small Arms Survey, ISIS was largely able to acquire this ammunition from the constantly shifting battle lines of the Syrian civil war.
A large amount of the Russian, Iranian, and Chinese ammunition flooding the battle zones were likely looted by ISIS and other jihadists from Syrian military bases. Iran and Russia both directly provided arms to the Assad regime in 2014 as ISIS were attacking and looting Syrian military installations. It is also possible that the ammunition was supplied to the war zones in Syria and Iraq through third parties. …
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How will they know if they work as advertised if they don't try them out?
It’s gonna be a free-for-all all over the world until Obama’s replacement takes over....I’m just praying democrat silliness doesn’t bring the wars here before the two years are up.
Quite a few Russian AKs over here too.
The US government should be arming our own citizenry.
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