Kalashnikov cranking up AK-47 factory in Florida

[sarisataka]

Kalashnikov cranking up AK-47 factory in Florida

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.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/27/news/companies/kalashnikov-florida-factory/index.html

Tipping point?

[Xipe Totec]

1. Go to where the market is. nt

[mwrguy]

2. Circumventing 922r

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

5. That's kind of like saying...

...going 55 mph in a 55 mph zone is circumventing the speed limit.

[branford]

7. No.

A lot of originally foreign firearm manufacturers, including companies like Glock, FN, Sig and IWI, create subsidiaries in the USA, often one of their largest markets, and use sufficient American parts to comply with the law.

[sarisataka]

8. I think you are confused

Circumventing and complying are not synonymous

[GreydeeThos]

3. Is this part of the backlash we have been told to expect?

[beevul]

11. No no. This is frontlash...

No no. This is frontlash, the backlash is yet to come.

[Duckhunter935]

4. any day now

[ileus]

6. I've always wanted an AK just for collecting.

[Eleanors38]

9. 'Still a foreign import: Florida.

"If it ain't been tried, it be tried in Florida" -- A. non Amos, c. 1,340 BCE, Luxor

[bolus]

10. not the same company

"Kalashnikov USA" is not the same company as "Kalashnikov Concern" in Russia. They are just a US company that took the name.

Palmetto state armory and others have already been making US made AK's for a while now