1996年5月23日 · WASHINGTON — Federal authorities began making a series of arrests Wednesday in an intensive investigation of China’s two main state-controlled arms exporting companies for allegedly smuggling...

1996年5月24日 · SAN FRANCISCO — A key middleman arrested in an alleged arms smuggling ring was negotiating with U.S. undercover agents--including one he believed represented the Mafia--to sell them Chinese-made...

2021年4月4日 · Yin Jiaxu, who was Communist Party chief and chairman of China North Industries Group Corporation (Norinco) until his retirement in 2018, is being investigated for “serious violations of...

2021年2月21日 · Norinco has been cloning and selling American designs on the international market for decades. In the United States, the company is banned because it tried to sell guns directly to gangs in the...

1996年5月23日 · Sources close to the investigation say the suspects are representatives of China Northern Industrial Corp., also known as Norinco, and Poly Technologies. The firms are both controlled by the...

2023年11月30日 · By the 1980s, yes both legal semi-auto AKs and smuggled in full-auto AKs would have been available. Semi-auto ones you can buy at a gun store were flowing in from Norinco, Egypt, and other places. And movie prop departments fielded many AKs in the 1980s, such as in Red Dawn. Russian AKs weren't really around until well after the Cold War.

In August 2003, the Bush administration imposed sanctions on Norinco for allegedly selling missile-related goods to Iran. [15] These sanctions led to a prohibition on imports into the US of the remaining types of firearms and ammunition not covered by the 1993 ban.

2021年8月31日 · This led the ATF to launch what they called Operation Dragonfire, a sting that was ongoing for 18 months and resulted in arrests, weapon seizures and the indictment of …

1996年5月24日 · SAN FRANCISCO, May 23 -- An undercover sting against a smuggling ring involving two of China's main arms manufacturers has netted 2,000 AK-47 assault weapons destined for American street gangs ...

2021年10月1日 · The former head of one of China’s largest weapon manufacturers has been expelled from the Communist Party and will face corruption charges, the country’s top anti-graft body has announced, barely...