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uhnope

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Thu Jan 15, 2015, 08:20 PM Jan 2015

Charlie Hebdo attack used Russian, Soviet, Eastern Bloc guns

The weapons seen in various images of the attackers include a variant of the famous AK47; a Czech-made sub-machine gun called a Scorpion; several Russian-designed Tokarev TT pistols and a grenade or rocket launcher — probably the Yugoslav M80 Zolja.

http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-01-15/where-did-paris-attackers-get-their-guns

“One of the reasons we see a lot of Kalashnikovs and AK-47s on the black market is because Russia has just upgraded the Kalashnikov, and that has created massive stockpiles of the older models,” said Kathie Lynn Austin, an expert on arms trafficking and the director of the Conflict Awareness Project, an international nongovernmental organization dedicated to investigating major arms traffickers.

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/1/9/guns-france-armstraffickig.html
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Charlie Hebdo attack used Russian, Soviet, Eastern Bloc guns (Original Post) uhnope Jan 2015 OP
I thought there were already tens of millions of AK-47s Blue_Tires Jan 2015 #1
After leaving Vietnam madokie Jan 2015 #2
I am so very sorry you ever had to be in Vietnam. SamKnause Jan 2015 #3
Wasting your breath... uh, keystrokes at Gungeon Underground. nt onehandle Jan 2015 #4

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