Haiti: US guns pour into Port-au-Prince, fuelling surge in violence
Haiti: US guns pour into Port-au-Prince, fuelling surge in violence
Every kind of gun is flooding into Port-au-Prince. Haitians are blaming the US.
"All the guns here are from the US, everybody knows it. If the US wants to stop this, they could easily do it one month!" He pleads: "We are asking the US to give us a chance to live, just give us a chance."
For a country that does not manufacture weapons, a UN report in January found every type of gun was flooding Port-au-Prince: high-powered rifles such as AK47s, 9mm pistols, sniper rifles and machine guns.
The weapons are fuelling the staggering surge in Haiti's gang-related violence.
There is no exact number for how many trafficked firearms are currently in Haiti.
The UN report said some estimates put it at half a million legal and illegal weapons here as of 2020.
It reported that guns and ammunition were being smuggled in from land, air and sea from US states such as Florida, Texas and Georgia.
Haiti made the wrong choice of demanding freedom from slavery before European powers were ready to adapt to life without human chattel. We've never let them forget that.
Fuck the European powers of old and fuck slavery. I wish that all my ancestors killed their masters tbh.
How can you say it's the wrong choice for anyone to try to defeat an oppressive evil such as slavery?
Well, Haiti did kill most of their masters when they rebelled against them. (Which I honestly can understand given the especially awful brand of slavery that was going on there)
Also, while France is to blame for the insane "reparations" that have been forced upon Haiti, they ultimately sold their debt to some wall street banks, who pressured the US government to invade Haiti (on more than one occasion iirc) to force them to take loans with high interest rates in order to repay the debt (and create more).
When I learned about that I couldn't wrap my head around the fact that forgiving the debt was apparently never an option for anyone involved. So, fuck the banks and also fuck the USA.
How can you say it's the wrong choice for anyone to try to defeat an oppressive evil such as slavery?
It was a wrong choice from the perspective of their masters.
They "demanded freedom from slavery", and then shortly afterwards engaged in slave raids in what is today the Dominican Republic.
Also known as the Mexican gambit. Who gave the CIA access to pentagon's stock pile anyway?
which export location is actually exporting AK47s?
The same one exporting Belt Fed Machine Guns. Half of the stuff covered in the article can't be bought in the United States so I'd really REALLY like to know where in the hell its coming from.
I love the accidental admission that you only want to know where it's coming from because it can't be bought in America, implying you wouldn't like to know otherwise.
Accross the continent, a huge number of guns recovered in crimes can be traced back to a gun store in America. It's an incredibly low risk way to source firearms, especially compared to things like "robbing the military".
But just because a domestic abuser with a room temperature IQ can't buy one at his local Walmart doesn't mean they're not American guns. The "profits first, people never" mentality of arms manufacturers and their pet politicians has resulted in billions of dollars of weapons in the hands of militant groups.
Of course if you genuinely wanted to know, there's multiple reports on exactly that topic. Be sure to tell us what you learn from them, so we know you're not just defending Americas gun laws by muddying the waters.
Heh, good catch.
There actually was a Kalashnikov factory in the US producing Real Authentic Kalashnikov AK-47s. Was one of the very early victims of sanctions over Ukraine.
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Looks like they still exist. I think that it was partly owned by someone who was sanctioned, so maybe they divested.
looks further
Kalashnikov Firearms
Russian Heritage. American Innovation.
Man, this was not a good decade for that particular ad campaign.
I don't see AK-47s on the site, so maybe they only do other firearms.
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Ah, apparently the synthetic-stock thing, the KR-103, counts and was probably what they were selling.
https://www.pewpewtactical.com/kalashnikov-usa-kr-103-review/
It looks like they got whacked back after the invasion of Crimea, so some time back.
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jl2572
According to the above Pew Pew Tactical article, it looks like those Crimea-invasion sanctions were what started the US-based factory -- they set up domestic production in the US to provide their US sales, since they couldn't import from Russia any more.
The American company, Kalashnikov USA, was initially an importer of Russian-made firearms until the US government banned importation.
Using their familiarity and know-how, the importers became manufacturers, creating their own firearms based on Russian specifications.
I guess that strictly-speaking, the term should still be "AK-pattern", Kalashnikov or not. Says that it's based on the AK-103, which is really a descendant of the AK-47.
AK47s were only really produced for about 10 years, the vast majority are AKMs and derivatives.
Hint: all the guns here are from anywhere that makes guns. This is sadly not special treatment for Haiti. The US is the source for all the guns including the Russian made ones. It isn't personal. It's just business. And a business doesn't care whom they maim and kill in their lust for cash unless forced by Law to care.
"All the guns here are from the US, everybody knows it. If the US wants to stop this, they could easily do it one month!"
Man, I'd believe that there's arms smuggling from the US, but we can't fully stop drug smuggling through the Carribbean, and we've used aerostat radars, helicopter-borne snipers, satellite surveillance, and you name it, have a ton of resources allocated to it, have been banging on that for decades. Why do you think arms smuggling is more amenable?
AK-47s coming from the US??? Yeah I'm just going to have to stop you right there, that is complete nonsense.
I mean, maybe not actual AK47s but there are a fuckton of AK pattern rifles chambered in various NATO calibers. Aren't those decently easy to find in the US ?
And they don't need to be made in the US to be smuggled from the US. I bet they are Chinese-made clones.
The title picture for this article shows a fully automatic gun that is illegal in all forms for civilian ownership in the US and does not come in a semi-auto version that is civilian legal. It is also used by the Haitian police as well as the police and governments of several Central and South American countries. It almost certainly did not come from the US.
What they need right now is a bag of fruit and burritos! 😄
No more war machines, let's send food instead.
America as usual spreading the plague of guns world wide.
The UN dogma of guns causing violence is ridiculous and insane. Switzerland isn't Hell.
Civilians can't easily own or carry guns in Haiti so only criminals are armed.
No one can uninvent guns. No one can stop smuggling. No one can stop illegal manufacturing. Gun control is a fantasy and/or totalitarian nightmare fuel.
Switzerland has far more gun regulations than the U.S. If you're arguing for purchasing permits and concealed carry only by rarely-issued permits, sure. I'll go with that. Better than what the U.S. has now.
Background checks in the US are practically equivalent to purchasing permits in CH, except the data retention is less specific because the date of purchase and what is purchased is harder to tell. Concealed carry was only restricted in the 1990s by gun-grabbers.
Also the US isn't a monolith with one set of laws.
Or Michigan.