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<blockquote data-quote="uncle money bags" data-source="post: 2696290" data-attributes="member: 8377"><p>try this on for size folks. </p><p><a href="http://weaponsman.com/?p=20414" target="_blank">http://weaponsman.com/?p=20414</a></p><p>click the link to read the whole thing</p><p></p><p><strong><em>Whats really going on here is simple: the US importer of Concern Kalashnikov arms, RWC Group, of Tullytown, PA, has the US rights to the name and to sell the guns, but RWCs boss, Tom McCrossin, enjoined from importing anything from Russia, and even from contact with CK or Izmash under the latest sanctions. It can sell the guns it already had warehoused and approved before the sanctions hit, but anything in Russia, stays in Russia.</em></strong></p><p><strong><em></em></strong></p><p><strong><em>Russian guns stay in Russia. Russian tooling stays in Russia. Russian ideas and concepts stay in Russia. So the only possibility is for them to be reverse-engineered here, unless RWC got hold of that information antes de the sanctions declaration.</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>Theres no political solution to this.</em></strong></p><p><strong><em></em></strong></p><p><strong><em>What determines whether these AKs are good is not the brand that goes on, but the construction that goes in. In the short term, the way for them to maximize profit is to build an el cheapo AK and slap Kalashnikovs name all over it. Presumably they have some arrangement with CK for royalties, in which case theyll have to escrow the money. Probably forever. This means they probably cant be the low-cost provider in the legendarily price-sensitive US AK market. But they can market their clone with the, Everything else is just a clone, tagline and see how that works.</em></strong></p><p><strong><em></em></strong></p><p><strong><em>In the long term, they might build a better and more sustainable business by taking care to make premium AKs with processes as near to the Russian firm as they can reasonably replicate; this also would leave them in better shape if or when the sanctions regime falls, but we just dont see it falling. And the market for premium AKs is some small subset of the market for generic AKs.</em></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="uncle money bags, post: 2696290, member: 8377"] try this on for size folks. [url]http://weaponsman.com/?p=20414[/url] click the link to read the whole thing [B][I]Whats really going on here is simple: the US importer of Concern Kalashnikov arms, RWC Group, of Tullytown, PA, has the US rights to the name and to sell the guns, but RWCs boss, Tom McCrossin, enjoined from importing anything from Russia, and even from contact with CK or Izmash under the latest sanctions. It can sell the guns it already had warehoused and approved before the sanctions hit, but anything in Russia, stays in Russia. Russian guns stay in Russia. Russian tooling stays in Russia. Russian ideas and concepts stay in Russia. So the only possibility is for them to be reverse-engineered here, unless RWC got hold of that information antes de the sanctions declaration. Theres no political solution to this. What determines whether these AKs are good is not the brand that goes on, but the construction that goes in. In the short term, the way for them to maximize profit is to build an el cheapo AK and slap Kalashnikovs name all over it. Presumably they have some arrangement with CK for royalties, in which case theyll have to escrow the money. Probably forever. This means they probably cant be the low-cost provider in the legendarily price-sensitive US AK market. But they can market their clone with the, Everything else is just a clone, tagline and see how that works. In the long term, they might build a better and more sustainable business by taking care to make premium AKs with processes as near to the Russian firm as they can reasonably replicate; this also would leave them in better shape if or when the sanctions regime falls, but we just dont see it falling. And the market for premium AKs is some small subset of the market for generic AKs.[/I][/B] [/QUOTE]
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