Instapundit on this story:

We’re supposed to be worried about why. I think I have an answer though, and it’s the same reason I personally have bought arms from China: They’re good, and they’re cheap. Some years ago I bought a Chinese SKS rifle (a lightweight Kalashnikov variant) for 99 bucks. I expected it to be reliable and inexpensive, and it was. It also shot really well, and had a surprisingly smooth trigger pull. I liked it so much I went back and bought another to give my brother for Christmas. If someone had offered to sell me an AR-15 for the same 99 bucks I might have gone with it, but they didn’t, and for the price the SKS was an excellent buy.

The weapons are for the Iraqi police, not the Iraqi army.

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