A. Hesse Model 47 / Model AMD 63B. Norinco 84-S Chinese made .223
C. AK Concepts Tactical Pistol $750
D. Hungarian AMD 65 $500
E. Norinco NMH 90
F. Arsenal Inc AK74 Bulgarian Rifle $640
G. Polish Under Folder $630
From Defense Technology News:
Angola, whose long civil war ended six years ago, is trying to curb decades of violence by collecting and destroying weapons, especially the cheap AK-47s that have flooded the region in the last two decades. So far this year, the government has collected over 50,000 illegal weapons, many of them AK-47s. These are publicly destroyed, several thousand at a time, and reduced to scrap metal.
The AK-47 has become as much of a curse for Africa as many major diseases. Not just in the places you hear about, like Somalia, Angola, Congo and Sudan, but in many others as well. Easy availability of firearms has produced a murder rate in South Africa that is, per capita, ten times what it is in the United States.
In many parts of East Africa many rural tribes got access to cheap AK-47s. This has resulted in traditional crimes, like stealing cattle or land, turning into bloody war. In western Kenya alone, there have been hundreds of deaths from tribal clashes in the last two years.
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My Comment: When its impact is analyzed on countries in Africa, one can easily make the argument that the AK-47 is a weapon of mass destruction.
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