VEPR 12 IMPORT Question

[Steven Stallings 4]

Hello Forum Saiga 12!

 

I have a question,

 

how is the Primary Market like Atlantic Firearms Classic, AOA, these big online retailers getting there hands on more Vepr 12 Shotguns when they have been banned?

 

Are they Truly banned? or has the Vepr 12 been still coming in?

 

Thanks.

 

-STEVEN

 

 

[Aeromat209 24]

I think the ban is for future imports . The import process can take quite awhile and the ones we are seeing now have been in the works for some time . 

[DramaticGnome 1]

I can't remember where I read it but there are rumors that a private buyer may be buying out kalashnikov concern which could mean that importation could start back up because the company was no longer owned buy the russian gov. It'd be great if it ends up being true because I was looking forward to all the  products that were in the works for importation, including the saiga branded vityaz 9mm, and an AEK.

[pt92 4]

I can't remember where I read it but there are rumors that a private buyer may be buying out kalashnikov concern which could mean that importation could start back up because the company was no longer owned buy the russian gov. It'd be great if it ends up being true because I was looking forward to all the  products that were in the works for importation, including the saiga branded vityaz 9mm, and an AEK.

Yup--here's the story I read concerning such--I am excerpting the quote:

 

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2014/09/foghorn/kalashnikov-concern-plans-skirt-us-import-ban-selling-company/

 

 

From Reuters:

Russia’s Rostec, a state-owned conglomerate hit by Western sanctions over Ukraine, will sell a small arms factory to a businessman who is not blacklisted to allow further sales to Europe and the United States, officials and sources said….

Created in 2007 by President Vladimir Putin, (Rostec) owns Kalashnikov, the maker of the Ak-47 assault rifle used in conflicts around the world.

Parties to the deal told Reuters that businessman Andrei Bokarev will buy 75 percent of Rostec’s Izhmekh plant, whose products include hunting rifles and sporting guns.

Happy Holidays,

pt92

[Steve2112 1]

Won't BHO just add that new company to the banned list?  He's got a pen and a phone ya know!

[DramaticGnome 1]

The only reason he was able to pass a ban on russian firearm imports in the first place was using the excuse that it wasn't a gun ban it was to try to stop russia from occupying the ukraine

[mikeNM 8]

Say, that ban by Mr. President really worked!!!!... All the fighting has stopped and every Russian and Ukrainian are the best of buddies...In case you don't know.... Putkin wants the oil and mineral rich region for his own). EZ way to ban a weapon that scares "little children"...OR is for the "children", I keep getting that mixed up????.....