Russia To Destroy 4 Million Guns

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Russia To Destroy 4 Million Guns

Russia’s Ministry of Defense intends to destroy 4 million guns by the end of 2014

Marco Vorobiev was a member of the elite Soviet Spetsnaz in Afghanistan in the 1980s. He’s a U.S. citizen now and conducts training courses that draw on his special forces training. He’ll have a new installment every Wednesday.

The Russian Ministry of Defense intends to utilize (read destroy and melt down) 4 million older model guns by the year 2015. These will be pulled from the stockpiles of estimated 16 million guns that are no longer in service with Russian Armed Forces. Roughly 6.45 million of these guns are no longer serviceable.

Though the types were not officially announced, a little birdie whispered to me that most of the guns slotted for destruction are Mosin rifles and carbines, SKS carbines, Nagant revolvers, TT33 Tula Tokarev pistols, a huge number of AKM automatic rifles, RPK and RPK-74 light machine guns and a small number of older PK medium machine guns.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade is planning to send these guns to the factories where they were produced for disposal. Apparently this would keep in business plants like Molot and create 240 jobs. Meanwhile, Russia’s biggest arsenal Izhmash, had to suspend its destruction program after misplacing approximately 80 AKM rifles.

I don’t know about you, but I can come up with a much better idea for disposal of these guns: Send them over here! We would even pay for them. But unfortunately this will never happen. So, millions of guns, including some of the truly historic firearms, will be sent to the crusher instead.
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ovrec f:P::bangHead:
Wow, these guys are seriously f*^ked to not sell these
goodies to our market!
Well, at least the Mosins and Tokarevs.
They could actually create more jobs for workers by having
them do refurbishment on the guns and put them out for
international distributors to sell.
What a stupid f**king UN way of doing things!
 
"Russia’s biggest arsenal Izhmash, had to suspend its destruction program after misplacing approximately 80 AKM rifles."

If that happens to aproximately 3,999,920 more of these guns I'm sure none of us will complain.

Quigs
 
Selling may not be worth it maybe. Let's be honest, a mosin is $100, already shipped across the world, imported, and a profit tacked on. Maybe the russians think its not worth the effort.

I would loooooove to see the warehouses though. Just a walk through would be cool.
 
CanadianAR said:
Selling may not be worth it maybe. Let's be honest, a mosin is $100, already shipped across the world, imported, and a profit tacked on. Maybe the russians think its not worth the effort.
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If that were the case, we wouldn't be seeing $100 mosins. Someone in Russia thinks its worth it.

I'm glad I've got my non-refurb SKS picked out already.
 
More than likely exported in bulk hence the probable low price per Mosn rifle.

Just imagine if they come across some crates of RC Kar98ks :eek:
 
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