{"id":57793,"date":"2015-01-21T17:45:25","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T22:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57793"},"modified":"2015-01-21T17:45:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T22:45:25","slug":"us-made-aks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57793","title":{"rendered":"US-made AKs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=54089\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-54089\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/ak-47-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"ak-47\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54089\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/ak-47-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/ak-47-426x333.jpg 426w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/ak-47.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/jan\/21\/ak-47s-be-made-america-sanctions-dont-apply-us-mad\/\">The Washington Times<\/a> reports that Thomas McCrossin, the CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rwcgroupllc.com\/\">RWC<\/a>, announced that his company is licensed to make US-manufactured Kalashnikov rifles, because the Obama Administration, just last year, forbade the import of the Russian variety;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe are not permitted to pick up the phone and to talk to [Kalashnikov Concern],\u201d Mr. McCrossin told CNN Tuesday. \u201cIn the second quarter of this year we are going to start manufacturing here in the U.S. What I\u2019m manufacturing are our own AK-47s and shotguns under the Kalashnikov brand,\u201d he added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> From <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2015\/01\/20\/news\/kalashnikov-made-in-usa\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> CNNMoney has reached out to Kalashnikov Concern in Moscow for comment, but hasn&#8217;t heard back.<\/p>\n<p>McCrossin said he&#8217;s shopping around for a location for the factory. He said that he plans to hire people, but he wouldn&#8217;t say how many.<\/p>\n<p>He made the announcement at the Kalashnikov USA booth at the SHOT Show. The booth carried the slogans &#8220;Russian heritage&#8221; and &#8220;Made in USA.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a fan, but I figured some of you folks are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times reports that Thomas McCrossin, the CEO of RWC, announced that his company is &hellip; <a title=\"US-made AKs\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57793\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US-made AKs<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}