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Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 12:50 PM Aug 2016

Gang Selling AK-47s 'Bound For Western Europe'

Sky News investigators travel deep into Romania to meet gun dealers willing to sell military-grade weapons to terrorists. video http://news.sky.com/story/gang-selling-ak-47s-bound-for-western-europe-10526393
From the mountains of the Balkans across huge, remote forest lands in eastern Europe, networks of gangs have access to millions of weapons that have been cached after years of conflict or are in general supply in areas bordering conflict zones such as Ukraine.

After months of negotiation with a Romanian gang Sky News was directed to a remote part of the country for a meeting with gang members prepared to show us what they could supply.

There is no subterfuge here. They knew we were a news organisation wanting to illustrate how getting a weapon is relatively easy and they believed we were going to buy them. We did not, which made matters a little tricky.

The point is they didn't care who we were if we were prepared to pay. Throughout our meeting they made it clear they would sell to absolutely anyone; bank robber, mass murderer or terrorist, they made no distinction.

http://news.sky.com/story/gang-selling-ak-47s-bound-for-western-europe-10526393

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Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
2. they don't care. Those look like new guns, what country wants to destablize europe with a flood of g
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 02:05 PM
Aug 2016

flood of guns? and supply IS with endless arms? what country can afford to have a black market this huge?

 

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)
3. Well maybe Leland Yee (ex-state senator from CA) who authored most of the state's recent gun control
Tue Aug 9, 2016, 05:20 PM
Aug 2016

laws. He is now in Club Fed, convicted of international gun-trafficking.

Musta been an anti-trust violation

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
4. maybe those are the senators masked romanian forrest gun salesmen?
Tue Aug 9, 2016, 05:58 PM
Aug 2016

does anyone know who makes those guns? Those .salesmen' have thousands of new guns for sale. Some country deliberately supplies a well organized black market.

 

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)
5. Gun-runners have always been super-governmental, enjoying the most insulated power.
Tue Aug 9, 2016, 06:17 PM
Aug 2016

For what it's worth, the Romanian-made AKs are considered among the best, so likely they are made there. Any number of countries can facilitate transfer; they may end up in France, but they carom off other easily-corrupted states. Likely they will trickle into the target country. Like drugs, some guns will be detected and seized, but others will make it through.

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