Word: ak
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...much more to the U.S. than toys and clothes--and not all the commerce flows through legitimate channels. In California last week federal agents swept up seven suspects, including a representative of a state-owned Chinese arms company, in a sting operation that involved smuggling 2,000 fully automatic AK-47 assault rifles into the U.S. A plot that would have earned $4 million and contributed to the illegal firepower already menacing American streets is, as Justice Department officials said, a very serious matter. But the diplomatic questions hovering over it may be still more important: What did the Chinese...
...that the Chinese government was involved in the smuggling operation. State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns was quick to label it a law-enforcement matter and say, "I don't see why this needs to complicate U.S.-China relations." But there are suspicions. Norinco, the Chinese company that manufactured the AK-47s, is a vast military complex supervised by the State Council, headed by Premier Li Peng. The company that sold the weapons, Poly Technologies, is a trading company directed by officials with links to the armed forces and the leading political families in Beijing. One of its executives, He Ping...
...market to buy guns for drug rings and street gangs. By the time the undercover deal was over, Hipple and his partner, a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent who also posed as a mobster, had persuaded the brokers to smuggle 2,000 fully automatic Chinese-government-made AK-47s into...
...just lay down their arms and try to find a way to sustain themselves in a peaceful society, but they do not have the resources. If you are a 20-year-old militia man who can get a television and a sack of grain in five minutes with your AK-47, why are you going to put it down...
...next time those left-wing counterculture wackos in Congress get the idea into our head to take away our firearms, I hope they realize what they're doing. Remember, an AK a day keeps the schoolyard bully away...