![]() ![]() market is one of “high demand” for the company and that “the sanctions of the United States government against Kalashnikov Concern go against the interest of American consumers.” On its own website, RWC said that it only had a “limited supply” of the weapons and that “there will be no more Saigas for the foreseeable future.” In a July 18 posting on its website, Rostec said that the U.S. Only about 100,000 of the guns had been delivered to the U.S. gun dealers, who wouldn’t be able to import any new Kalashnikov models (or models from the related Izhmash and Saiga brands). New transactions with the Kalashnikov company were prohibited after July 16, 2014. owners and dealers of the weapons could still own them and resell them at gun shows, so long as they or their dealers didn’t make any payments to the Russian parent company. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said at the time that U.S. slapped sanctions on Rostec, along with other Russian defense companies, in response to suspected Russian involvement in the shoot-down of a Malaysian passenger jetliner over Ukraine. gun shops for between $800 and $1,050 each.īut last July, the U.S. As of last summer, Russian-manufactured AK-47s were selling in U.S. market constituted about 90% of its export sales in 2013, according to Pavel Kolegov, Kalashnikov’s deputy chief executive for sales and marketing, in a statement at the time. Kalashnikov’s Russian manufacturer, State Corporation of Russian Technologies, or Rostec, signed a two-year agreement in January 2014 with RWC Group at that year’s Las Vegas SHOT Show saying they hoped to sell 200,000 Kalashnikov products a year in the U.S. for some time, this is the first time the Russian weapon will be made entirely in the U.S. While AK-47 parts and knock-off versions of the famed weapon have been manufactured and available in the U.S. “Shooters can expect extremely high-quality firearms at competitive price points, with supplies uninterrupted by import issues,” RWC (which stands for Russian Weapon Company), is located in Tullytown, Pa., said in the January statement. states to locate a production plant, with the semi-automatic rifles, as well as shotguns, rolling off the lines in the second quarter of this year, McCrossin said in a statement sent to Marketwatch on Feb. The company is currently negotiating with three U.S. 20 that it would form a new company known as Kalashnikov USA to manufacture the weapon, Thomas McCrossin, RWC Group’s CEO confirmed to Marketwatch. RWC Group, the licensed importer for the Kalashnikov company, revealed at the popular Las Vegas gun exposition known as SHOT Show on Jan. ![]()
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