Norinco, Polytech, et al are industrial conglomerates owned and run by Regional Directorates of the PLA. Their products were banned from importation after repeated shady incidents involving their representitives here in the U.S., including the infamous "Red Dragon" smuggling case. They were also known to be selling nuclear and conventional arms technology to countries such as North Korea, Iran, Syria, Iraq, etc. which was, and is, prohibited by various international treaties Red China had signed on to. Trying to negotiate with the Chinese is kind of like herding cats: They'll pretty much ignore anything you say and keep doing what they please until you get tired of talking at them or they get where they originally wanted to go, whichever comes first.
The UN being basically worthless and toothless ditherers, the only effective means we had of putting a kink in their machinations was to cut off as much of the income that was funding them as possible. The U.S. commercial market was supplying much of the capital they were using to fund their expansion and activities, and they'd amply demonstrated their complete willingness to circumvent our laws when and however possible in order to further their own profits and political agenda. Closing our markets to them was our only viable long term option, and we took it.
That's what happened to cheap SKSes, AKM's, inexpensive knock-offs of classic designs and dirt-cheap ammo.
The UN being basically worthless and toothless ditherers, the only effective means we had of putting a kink in their machinations was to cut off as much of the income that was funding them as possible. The U.S. commercial market was supplying much of the capital they were using to fund their expansion and activities, and they'd amply demonstrated their complete willingness to circumvent our laws when and however possible in order to further their own profits and political agenda. Closing our markets to them was our only viable long term option, and we took it.
That's what happened to cheap SKSes, AKM's, inexpensive knock-offs of classic designs and dirt-cheap ammo.
