Speaking of AK47s, the Chinese communists tried 
to smuggle in 2,000 fully automatic AK47s into the 
US in 1996 to be sold to drug lords and street gangs 
in Oakland, California.
(BTW, the day after recent very violent riots in 
Oakland, the city council layed off 80 policemen 
and now if you want to report a crime you had 
best go down to the precinct because the police 
will only respond to 'violence in progress' calls.  
Which reminds me of the citizen who called police 
and said he has holding a burglar caught red handed 
at gun point, please come pick hi up, when told by 
the police dispatcher that it would be about thirty 
minutes the citizen said; "never mind, I'll just shoot 
him" and hung up.  The police arrived minutes later 
and finding the culprit unshot, said; "I thought you 
said you were going to shoot him?" and the guy 
said; "and I thought you said it would take thirty 
minutes to get here.")
A 30-count indictment stemmed from a sting 
operation mounted by undercover U.S. Treasury 
and U.S. Customs Service agents, who posed as 
organized-crime arms dealers. 
That haul remains the largest seizure of smuggled 
automatic weapons in U.S. history. 
The agents paid $700,000 for 2,000 fully automatic 
AK-47s that were shipped into Oakland, Calif., aboard 
a Chinese-owned vessel from China in March 1996. 
The shipment, which had an approximate street 
value of more than $4 million, also included about 
4,000 AK-47 drum magazines capable of holding 
up to 40 rounds each. 
Ma is one of five Chinese nationals indicted in the 
case who are fugitives. Two other Chinese nationals 
who were charged, a former Poly Technologies export 
manager and a former export official of another state-
run munitions firm, NORINCO, have been convicted in 
China, said Lori Haley, a spokeswoman for ICE in 
Laguna Niguel, Calif. 
Poly Technologies was started by the Chinese military 
as an arms trading corporation. When the government 
ordered the military to divest itself of numerous 
businesses, Poly Technologies in 1999 was placed 
under the central government.
Here is a tidbit for you Bush haters:
Dateline Apr. 27, 2005;
The U.S. Army has approved the purchase of more 
than $29 million worth of weapons for the new Iraqi 
army from a Chinese state-owned company that's 
under indictment in California in connection with the 
smuggling of 2,000 AK-47 automatic rifles into the 
United States in 1996. 
The Beijing-based firm is to deliver 2,369 light and 
heavy machine guns, 14,653 AK-47 rifles and 72 
million rounds of ammunition worth $29.3 million by 
Saturday, according to a Pentagon statement. 
Poly Technologies won the competitively bid $29.3 
million contract in February from The International 
Trading Establishment, a Jordan-based consortium. 
The U.S. Army selected the consortium to supply 
Iraq's fledgling security forces with as much as 
$174.4 million worth of radios, night-vision 
equipment, weapons and ammunition. 
The consortium comprises coalition partners of 
corporations from the Czech Republic, Spain and 
Jordan. 
Dynasty Holding of Atlanta, the name under which 
Poly Technologies did business in the United States, 
was charged in the smuggling case, along with 14 
co-defendants, including Bao Ping "Robert" Ma, a 
former Chinese army general who was the firm's 
U.S. representative, according to the May 1996 
federal grand jury indictment. 
Question: WTF?
From the Chinese Army manuel on the proper 
use of the AK47: