Burundi refugee arrested with two SMGs, bullets

DAMAS MWITA
Thisday, Wednesday 29th August 2007.
Dar es Salaam.

POLICE have arrested a Burundian refugee in Rukwa Region and recovered two sub-machine guns (SMGs) with 44 bullets and four cartridges from the asylum seeker believed to have been involved in a string of armed robberies in the country.

Police Force spokesman Esaka Mugasa told a news conference in Dar es Salaam yesterday that the refugee nabbed with the powerful military weapons was identified as Alex Petro, a Hutu by tribe, from the Mishamo refugee camp in Mpanda District, Rukwa Region.

A sub-machine gun (SMG) is a firearm that combines the automatic fire of a normal machine gun with the cartridge workings of a pistol, and is usually between the two in weight and size. SMGs are extremely powerful and mainly used in military warfare.....

ThisDay, Wednesday 29th August 2007

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The most durable type of the SMG´s used in the world is:
Avtomat Kalashnikova 1947 (AK-47)

The AK - 47 is the most widespread weapon in the world. More than 50 armies of the world have in their arsenals firearms created by Mikhail Kalashnikov

Iconic weapon:
AK-47 designer Lieutenant General
Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov
(Reuters: Sergei Karpukhin)
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The Kalashnikov assault rifle, also known as the AK-47 (Avtomat Kalashnikova - 47, Kalashnikov automatic rifle, model of 1947), and its derivatives, also known under the common name of AK, is the most prolific small arm of the 2nd half of the XX century. AK - 47 is widely considered to be among the most durable and reliable assault rifles ever designed. It had been and still is (in more or less modified forms) manufactured in dozens of countries, and used in hundreds of countries and conflicts since its introduction.

Kalashnikov AK (the original AK-47 with combination stamped / milled receiver)


AK - 74




AK-74 Beta Spetsnaz Spring,
mostly used by the Russian´s special force "Spetsnaz"


Gold plated AK - 47 found in Iraq in 2003



The AKS-74U (aka AKSU-74, AK-74SU )
is a Soviet-designed assault rifle in production
since 1975 and then into service. The AKS-74U
("U" for "Укороченный"/"Ukorochennyj" [shortened])
was developed in the late 1970s
from the shortened AKS-74 carbine


Info about AK and links were brought by Omari Guy Agallo Chichi.
omyguyagallochichi@yahoo.co.uk