Word: ak
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...right now are made in America. Guns like the TEC-9, MAC-10 and MAC-11 semiautomatic, though inaccurate, are cheap, terrifying, easily hidden and handily converted to automatic. Sales have soared since 1989, when President Bush banned the import of semiautomatic assault rifles such as the Chinese-made AK-47 knock-off used by a deranged gunman to shoot schoolchildren in Stockton, California...
...reached out to them but soon retreated. SHARP was intent on fighting fire with fire; soon rumbles ensued, and last New Year's Day, during a confrontation on a snowy street, they shot a racist skin with an SKS -- a bayoneted, semiautomatic assault rifle similar to an AK-47. "They blew his head to smithereens," says Christensen...
...assault weapons is going great guns, thanks to the collapse of the Soviet empire. Freed from government restraints, arms merchants in Russia and Eastern Europe are selling their wares abroad at low, low prices. In recent months, says a U.S. Customs Service source, the price of a Russian-made AK-47 assault rifle has dropped a third, from around $480 to about...
...clearing smuggling channels through Croatia. That means they mainly use old Soviet-bloc equipment, and to save training time, Pentagon officials say, the U.S. may attempt to tap those former Warsaw Pact arsenals for additional materiel. Slovak plants could provide T-72 tanks. Small arms, including the Kalashnikov AK-47 rifle, might be obtained from Afghan arms bazaars or a sympathetic stockpiler like Syria. To counter the Serbs' 105-mm artillery pieces and T-72 tanks, the Muslims could use Western-made counterartillery radar, which Washington would have to ( supply directly or through allies. The Pentagon would want to ship...
...officials had done for 51 days was stand and wait and watch. But members of the hrt, especially the snipers, had been on constant alert and were wearing down. "My very first concern was that the Davidians would exit the compound with a child in one hand and an AK-47 in the other," Coulson says. "The only civilian unit that can eliminate the subject without eliminating the child are hrt snipers. They can hit a quarter-inch target at 200 meters." That meant, of course, that they had any number of chances to take out Koresh. But the agency...