Gun Control & RKBA

Euromutt

(6,506 posts)

38. The Zolya was a plausible guess

Fri Dec 16, 2011, 06:40 PM

Dec 2011

I haven't actually spent time in the former Yugoslavia, but I've spent a few years doing stuff pertaining to that area, albeit from offices in the Netherlands. And yes, former Yugoslav hardware does have a disconcerting way of making its way to western Europe, generally along the same route as heroin.

As I noted previously, the RPG-18 is obsolescent at best, having been replaced by the RPG-22 from the mid-1980s onwards, and I'd guess that Amrani's was probably flogged off by some Soviet soldier in Czechoslovakia or East Germany around 1990, when the Sovs were preparing to pull out of the former Warsaw Pact countries, and a lot of soldiers were trying to make some hard currency by selling off as much military hardware as they could get away with. As I recall, the going rates were 200 German marks for an AK-74 and 50 for a hand grenade.

Edit history

Please sign in to view edit histories.

Recommendations

0 members have recommended this reply (displayed in chronological order):

41 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

Inside the home of crazed Belgian killer who launched grenade attack on Christmas market [View all] one-eyed fat man Dec 2011 OP

I'm a juicer Glassunion Dec 2011 #1

Rocket launchers? Nuclear Unicorn Dec 2011 #2

Buy 'em at any gun show with no background check DonP Dec 2011 #3

Especially in the Utopian Gun-Free Europe... We_Have_A_Problem Dec 2011 #4

Even if this guy's motives were absolutely apolitical Nuclear Unicorn Dec 2011 #5

Look at the first pic in the first link... MicaelS Dec 2011 #6

I think the other one's an RPG-18 Euromutt Dec 2011 #32

I believe you are right. one-eyed fat man Dec 2011 #37

The Zolya was a plausible guess Euromutt Dec 2011 #38

Some of that hardware one-eyed fat man Dec 2011 #40

And live hand grenades Dr_Scholl Dec 2011 #7

Well maybe not a hardware store... discntnt_irny_srcsm Dec 2011 #16

Couldn't find a T62 We_Have_A_Problem Dec 2011 #17

I'd have room to park those at my planned... discntnt_irny_srcsm Dec 2011 #18

Those things are pretty cool... We_Have_A_Problem Dec 2011 #21

Well... discntnt_irny_srcsm Dec 2011 #22

LOL We_Have_A_Problem Dec 2011 #23

It's only... discntnt_irny_srcsm Dec 2011 #24

And for her... discntnt_irny_srcsm Dec 2011 #25

You've obviously got my wife confused with another.... We_Have_A_Problem Dec 2011 #26

My daughter... discntnt_irny_srcsm Dec 2011 #27

Good God, man!! one-eyed fat man Dec 2011 #29

Assuming i could fly.... We_Have_A_Problem Dec 2011 #30

I don't exactly have that kinda coin in the couch cushions... one-eyed fat man Dec 2011 #31

I'm not sure how well... discntnt_irny_srcsm Dec 2011 #33

That's because T-62s tend to get melted down into razor blades Euromutt Dec 2011 #39

Rocket launchers one-eyed fat man Dec 2011 #8

Golly, you'd think a responsible/thorough reporter would say if the rockets were present or not. Nuclear Unicorn Dec 2011 #9

Responsible reporter? We_Have_A_Problem Dec 2011 #10

I suspect one-eyed fat man Dec 2011 #13

You mean the reporter who mistook a stripped stock for an entire rifle? Euromutt Dec 2011 #34

Spent and discarded M72s... discntnt_irny_srcsm Dec 2011 #14

As Mr. Yuri says... discntnt_irny_srcsm Dec 2011 #12

Obviously the solution is to ban the ownership of weapons Nuclear Unicorn Dec 2011 #19

Drafting that law would... discntnt_irny_srcsm Dec 2011 #20

What makes you think he even smoked the pot? Upton Dec 2011 #11

You may be right one-eyed fat man Dec 2011 #15

Another victim of Americas war on drugs. ileus Dec 2011 #28

Follow-up: "Police were instructed to leave perpetrator of bloodbath alone" Euromutt Dec 2011 #35

But...MSM said he was a "gun man." I guess "rocket man" or "LAWS man" -- could be confusing. nt SteveW Dec 2011 #36

Talk about taking the "War on Christmas" to whole new heights - sheesh. nt OneTenthofOnePercent Dec 2011 #41