[Q-gunner2]

Did any real East German AK rifles come into the US, as semi-auto commercial rifles or parts kits or NFA registered full autos?

 

[Q-gunner2]

Did anyone get a kit together before the ban in 1989? Since thats the year the D.D.R. fell and the DDR stuff started comming in I doubt it... but I can dream.

 

[Fireman]

One of the problems is thatthe Germans consider the barrel the "firearm" or registered part. They cut that BATF cuts the receiver,not much left but parts.

 

[Templar]

No civillian semi-auto DDR rifles made it in to the US. The only Com Bloc AK's to come in were the Hungarian FEG SA-85M's and some Yugoslavian rifles imported through Mitchell's.

Kits weren't really around in 1989, that's a relatively new thing.

As Fireman said, the Unified German gov't destroyed the barrels on their surplus rifles.

Many DDR AK's ended up in Finland, and a lot of the DDR AK-74's were given to the US Gov't by the Germans for training and "whatever".

 

[jithaca]

Some E. German AKM rifle kits came in with the other PLO kits.

 

[WarBaby]

Did anyone get a kit together before the ban in 1989? Since thats the year the U.S.S.R. fell and the DDR stuff started comming in I doubt it... but I can dream.

I couldve sworn the USSR collapsed in '91?

 

[Hootbro]

Did anyone get a kit together before the ban in 1989? Since thats the year the U.S.S.R. fell and the DDR stuff started comming in I doubt it... but I can dream.

I couldve sworn the USSR collapsed in '91?

They did, the DDR fell in 1989.

Hootbro

 

[Q-gunner2]

Crap! Sorry, you are totally right, I was in E.G. mode... fixed it, thanks for catching my error.

 

[Stottman]

Actually, the DDR did make a civilian AK version.. Very rare, and highly sought after in Germany... It uses an original auto reciever though, so would be illegal in the US..

 

[Kuiper]

Some DDR AK74's made in into the Netherlands after the collapse of the wall....somehow you don't see them often...EG stocksets are relatively easy to get though (find them fugly though)

 

[firedcase]

Also, many ended up in Jordan for a number of Years.

They( Jordan ), then sold to the U.S. for the New Iraqi Military.

My brother saw a couple crates of them, at his base last Year, that were going to be issued out to the Iraqi's.

The samples seen, he said, were in 'Pristine' condition.
Quote- "couldn't have ever been used!"

 

[TheRealSundance]

aa-ok for you DDR parts.