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Kalashnikov cranking up AK-47 factory in Florida
money.cnn.com ^ | Aaron Smith and Abigail Brooks

Posted on 01/28/2016 3:24:21 AM PST by RoosterRedux

The famous Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifles have been made in frigid Moscow since their inception 69 years ago. Soon, they'll be made in sunny Florida, too.

Kalashnikov USA has been approved by the city of Pompano Beach to assemble guns there.

Kalashnikov USA of Tullytown, Pa., was importing rifles made by Kalashnikov Concern, the original AK-47 manufacturer in Moscow, until 2014 when President Obama imposed sanctions against Russia following its annexation of Crimea. At that point, Kalashnikov USA severed all ties with the Russian company.

The company started making the guns in Pennsylvania last year, but is shifting manufacturing to Florida. Kalashnikov hasn't said why they are moving or how big the Pompano Beach operation will be.

Kalashnikov USA has recast itself as an American manufacturer of Kalashnikov-brand guns. It launched new lines of rifles and shotguns last week at the SHOT Show in Las Vegas, the annual conference of the National Shooting Sports Foundation.

This included its new Alpha line of rifles with high capacity magazines holding 30 rounds.

The company obtained "light manufacturing" approval in July 2015 from Pompano Beach, which is located on the Atlantic coast between Boca Raton and Fort Lauderdale.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: banglist; fl; florida; rkba
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1 posted on 01/28/2016 3:24:21 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Thats interesting.


2 posted on 01/28/2016 3:27:03 AM PST by Daniel Ramsey
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To: Daniel Ramsey
Here's their site...kalashnikov-usa.com
3 posted on 01/28/2016 3:30:50 AM PST by RoosterRedux (Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light - John Milton, Paradise Lost)
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To: RoosterRedux

An iconic image comes to mind of towelheads shooting full auto into the air en mass with AK’s.


4 posted on 01/28/2016 3:35:46 AM PST by Daniel Ramsey
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To: RoosterRedux

I like that Tactical Shotgun.


5 posted on 01/28/2016 3:38:20 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Daniel Ramsey

Gets around import bans.


6 posted on 01/28/2016 3:42:06 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: RoosterRedux
So we don't want assault weapons available but we'll let a company mfg them in the USA....to punish Russia.

I doubt the ak-47 specs are some big secret and Russia is still making them.

7 posted on 01/28/2016 3:43:39 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: RoosterRedux

AK-47 has a sorry history. And it was well designed but poorly manufactured.

An AR-15 with a gas operated upper has made the AK-47 obsolete.

Looky here:

http://faxonfirearms.com/arak-21-xrs-complete-rifle/


8 posted on 01/28/2016 3:48:01 AM PST by anton
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I bought a Faxon 18” barrel for my AR build. Couldn’t be happier.


9 posted on 01/28/2016 3:51:20 AM PST by RandallFlagg ("Political correctness is tyranny with manners." -Charlton Heston)
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To: RoosterRedux

But.....

It is one of the easiest automatic rifles to build from scratch materials.

Third world sand pit tent hovels has 12 year olds beating out sheet metal parts for these, i cannot envision all the lathes, mills, tig welders and craftsmen across America NOT geing able to do the same....or better.


10 posted on 01/28/2016 3:51:26 AM PST by Daniel Ramsey
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To: anton

$1900 for an AR? No thanks


11 posted on 01/28/2016 3:52:07 AM PST by wrench
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12 posted on 01/28/2016 3:53:32 AM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING ’VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: anton

In Soviet Union, infantry was cheaper than rifles, so cheap rifles made sense. In the U.S. infantry was valuable, so infantrymen had expensive weapons.

The genius of Kalashnikov was he made a reliable automatic weapon that was cheap, tolerant of loose manufacturing tolerances and was soldier proof. And he did as an enlisted man in an insane political environment, without university training, and in an impoverished country, whose most developed areas were occupied by a ruthless invader.


13 posted on 01/28/2016 4:05:02 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Prendre cinq et rendre quatre ce n'est pas donner.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Of course. Gotta arm the muzzies flooding across the border with their weapon of choice.


14 posted on 01/28/2016 4:13:05 AM PST by Old Yeller (Obama is winning the war on terror when you realize he is on the side of the enemy.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Wonder why they moved out of PA.

PA is very gun friendly.

But does have some insane union laws


15 posted on 01/28/2016 4:26:51 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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Two words: Governor Wolf
16 posted on 01/28/2016 4:40:35 AM PST by major_gaff (University of Parris Island, Class of '84)
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To: RoosterRedux

It is a shame I won’t be able to get any of these, because of the Maryland ban, but I did get 3 of them before the ban went into effect. Mine have quadrails and on one of them I installed a folding stock.


17 posted on 01/28/2016 4:48:42 AM PST by baltimorepoet
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To: JoeProBono

If that’s a real gun, doesn’t it defeat the purpose of making toy gun manufacturers put red tips on the barrels of their “guns” ?


18 posted on 01/28/2016 4:50:36 AM PST by PLMerite (The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: anton
"An AR-15 with a gas operated upper has made the AK-47 obsolete."

Yeah, but can you make an AR-15 out of a shovel?

Vodka not included.

19 posted on 01/28/2016 4:56:04 AM PST by PLMerite (The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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20 posted on 01/28/2016 5:03:58 AM PST by Rebelbase (A new batch of harpies has hatched in time for the 2016 election.)
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