Century Arms, as it's commonly known, legally circumvents a federal law stipulating that imported rifles must be suitable for "sporting purposes." Once inside the U.S., Century Arms converts the rifles into military-style AK-47s capable of holding 30-round magazines.Īmong Mexican traffickers, it has earned itself the nickname "cuerno de chivo" or "goat horn" because of its distinctive banana-shaped magazine. 1 gun in the Hearst survey was the AK-47 imported from Romania by Century International Arms of Delray Beach, Fla. 223 in nine of 10 sniper-style murders that terrorized the Washington area in 2002.Ī spokeswoman for Bushmaster did not respond to repeated calls for comment. sniper, and his youthful accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, used a Bushmaster. 223 comes with a 30-round magazine, enabling the shooter to fire all 30 rounds, one for each pull of the trigger, in a minute or less. "Their goal is the bulk purchase of maximum firepower." "The gun traffickers supplying Mexican drug organizations have become more selective and sophisticated in the weapons they acquire,"' said Kristen Rand, legislative director of the Washington-based Violence Policy Center, which extensively studied the issue. In the world of assault-type weaponry, power is measured by bullet caliber, velocity and range, as well rapidity of fire and ammunition magazine capacity. court documents from 44 cases involving 165 defendants in Texas, Arizona and three other states - shows the purveyors of guns to Mexican drug traffickers followed a time-honored maxim of product salesmanship: Bigger is definitely better. The survey - drawn from guns identified by manufacturer or importer in U.S. 223 AR-15 ranks second among firearms apparently used in drug warfare. 223 that was later used to kill four police officers and three secretaries in Acapulco.Ī Hearst Newspapers survey of 1,600 guns purchased mostly in Texas and Arizona - which were either shipped to Mexico or intercepted en route - shows the Bushmaster. military's standard-issue M-16, as intended "for law enforcement, security and private consumer use." But the weapons that Hernandez and his associates purchased ended up in the hands of Mexican drug cartel pistoleros, including the Bushmaster. 223 caliber AR-15s at Houston area gun shops in 20.īushmaster describes the AR-15 rifle, a civilian version of the U.S. The marketing researcher is just one of thousands of Ukrainians who recently joined the nation's Territorial Defence Forces (TDF) - a voluntary section of the army which has seen its numbers swell amid rising tensions on the Russian border.WASHINGTON - Convicted gun smuggler John Phillip Hernandez of Houston was likely not the kind of customer that Bushmaster Firearms International had in mind when he purchased 14 of the company's. I bought this carbine after listening to some soldiers discussing the best rifle to get,' Mariana told The Times. She went on to explain that the Zbroyar Z-15 is a hunting rifle, but that she has no intentions of hunting. 'If it comes to it then we will fight for Kiev we will fight to protect our city. If there is a need for the shooting to start, then I'll start shooting,' the mother continued, as she showed off her newly-bought Zbroyar Z-15 rifle in her flat in the Ukrainian capital. It is better that I deal with this now,' Mariana said. 'As a mother I do not want my children to inherit Ukraine's problems, or have these threats passed on to them. She was well-known even before the war as her oppositional journalism found her under threat of imprisonment by the old hardline regime of Viktor Yanukovych, deposed in the 2014 Maidan Revolution.Īnd mother-of-three Mariana Zhaglo, 52, is also aiming to protect her country. The sniper, from Kyiv, is something of a celebrity in Ukraine, having written a best-selling book called ‘Diary of an Illegal Soldier’, referring to the fact that for the first few years of her service, volunteers like her were not technically allowed to fight on the front lines, but that law was changed in 2016. ‘In real life, anyone who thinks along those lines in battle is already as good as dead.’ And I don't bother myself with stupid things either. Olena Bilozerska, 42, is credited with at least 10 confirmed ‘kills’ in the trenches of Donbas
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