Norinco

Her husband, Larry Nardone, is a senior executive at Cosmox North America, a subsidiary of Cosmox Outdoors, which merged with Chinese weapons manufacturer Zhongzhou Machinery Works in 2021.

That manufacturer listed Polytechnologies and Norinco, two major Chinese weapons companies, as partners and clients.

Poly Technologies was sanctioned by the U.S. in 2024 for supplying military technology to Russia for its genocidal invasion of Ukraine.

I want to be clear that Darlene Graham is just another corrupt Republican in Congress.

Pre-banned Chinese and Russian AK rifles have tripled in value over the past decade for their craftsmanship, authenticity, and scarcity.

Civilians willingly pay a premium for Polytech, Norinco, and Mollet rifles as it's unlikely their manufacturers will ever get to re-enter the U.S. market.

But if you don't want to splurge, a better option will be the cheaper Serbian ZPAP M70 or Romanian Wazir 10.

Since these countries can import in these models every year with no restrictions, high supply means less appreciation, even though they're all fundamentally the same rifle.

I mean, there were some defense analysts saying that in the next coming decade or two, like China's going to be providing Russia with a lot of their stuff.

Well, not only that, you got China's Norinco.

Norinco is a very big Chinese defense industrial based state controlled entity producing and selling directly to Yemen Houthi forces, these pieces of ballistic missiles.

Some of them are dual use, some of them are not dual use.

And the ones that are not dual use are like pieces of tail fins and heat reflectors and things like that that are used for these strikes on Saudi Arabia right now.

That is a big move.

Norinco and many other companies make a lot of guns, some of them rather inexpensive, like the SKS series, which are purchased in American mosques.

Many of these weapons have been purchased.

With a cut-off of Chinese 7.62 ammunition, I think there's a large question about whether the people who own these guns will be able to obtain ammunition for them.

An Israeli report in July 2026 states that no Israeli microwave system is fielded and that the Defense Ministry Research Directorate reportedly evaluated Leonidas.

What has China disclosed about its microwave weapons? A Norinco expert stated on January 7, 2026, that the truck-mounted Hurricane 3000 has an effective interception range above three kilometers against light unmanned aircraft in swarms, a claim with no published power figure or test data.

The system appeared at the September 3, 2025, Victory Day Parade in Beijing.

The Norinco claim that it outranges the army equivalent cannot be checked because the Chinese side disclosed no power level, test conditions, or target types.

Other published reviews list the Hurricane 2000 and the FK-4000 revealed in 2024 and report that Chinese entities hold 90% of high-power microwave patents, a figure attributed to a 2022 RAND study that this report did not examine directly.

Russia's Ranit E land-based system appears in published reviews with dated reporting and has not been observed in Ukraine.

The British weapon reached up to one kilometer.

A Ukrainian review cites two kilometers with a planned increase to four kilometers, and Epirus has described tactically relevant range as typically about 10 kilometers.

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... 'cause he was shooting that Chinese 870 copy, the Norinco or whatever.

He still kicked my butt, but.

That'd be kind of like going, that'd be kind of like me going to a, uh, a, uh, PCC match and taking my High Point carb- pistol, [laughs] my High Point carbine with me.

He was planning to do it later this month.

The evidence, according to the unsealed court records, an FBI investigation revealed Mohamed knowingly received a Norinco AK47 assault rifle and approximately 200 live rounds of ammunition.

Federal officials say that he admired previous terrorist mass casualty events and intended to carry out a large-scale shooting at the massive shopping complex in Bloomington, Minnesota.

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