Bumping around the province (AB) in the fall, I noticed that a number of the CT stores had Norinco rifles that a lot of the standard dealers around here have been having trouble getting - I picked up a JW15a backpacker in Cold Lake, and those have been unobtanium online for many moons.
I'm starting to wonder if they have a distribution channel not available to a lot of the other vendors, and if they're going to start putting the "big box squeeze" on some of the smaller outfits. Especially when it comes to Norinco, because they bring in so much stuff from China anyway to fill their shelves, tyhey probably have access to stronger distribution channels from China in general.