Nowhere in my post did I say that they "only" get the parts kit AKs. When someone says: "Here in the US we get the real AKs" that implies that there is a steady and reasonably priced REAL AKs available to them.
Now let's examine 2 things: A) Price:
Since you did a search on GB why don't you tell us how much a Norinco AK was being sold for? 2? 3? 4 thousand dollars?
The average cost of manufacturing an AK in about $500 dollars the last time I checked with it being around $200 dollars in China. So why is that they are being sold at nearly 20 times the price on the US market? Because the supply is very limited and not flowing and the demand is very high. If these so called real AKs are so good then why are people willing to pay so much for the China crap?
B) Real AK:
Before I go on about this, here is something to enlighten you: Kalashnikov Concern (you know the real Kalashnikov formerly known as Izhmash) has stated numerous times that the Kalashnikov USA is neither licensed or linked to them and should the embargoes ever be lifted they will seek to resolve the trademark issue. Kalashnikov USA was simply a distributor for Kalashnikov Concern before the ban and are now basically stealing the name and making unlicensed AKs. For more information you can read this:
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2...our-questions/
Kalashnikov only licensed a hand full of Eastern Block countries to produce AKs, among which were Poland, Hungary, DDR and maybe Bulgaria if my memory serves me right. And as such, as far as I am concerned, everything else is simply not a real AK. Not even the Chinese AKs that regarded to, by many US AK enthusiast, as one of the higher quality AKs.