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General Category => Firearms Related => Topic started by: GunLink on June 23, 2017, 04:32:56 PM

Title: Molot Oruzhie Targeted by Sanctions Amid Ukraine Conflict
Post by: GunLink on June 23, 2017, 04:32:56 PM
In case you missed it...


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Sanctions Related to Ukraine Conflict Hit Firearms Manufacturer Molot and Their VEPR (http://blog.gunlink.info/2017/06/20/sanctions-related-to-ukraine-conflict-hit-firearms-manufacturer-molot-and-their-vepr/)

http://gunl.ink/TAoHr

...Molot Oruzhie, OOO is designated by the Treasury Department’s sanction list under the section of Designations Related to Officials of the Russian Government and Sanctions Evasion, which also targets five other entities pursuant to the previous White House’s 2014 Executive Order 13661, which authorizes sanctions on any individual or entity that has provided material or other support to persons operating in the arms or related materiel sector in the Russian Federation.

...This is the part that effects US gun owners who may have intended to buy any of Molot’s firearms, which are imported solely by Las Vegas-based FIME Group following a late 2015, long-term exclusivity agreement between the two companies to cover the entire North American market...
Read More on GunLink Blog (http://blog.gunlink.info/2017/06/20/sanctions-related-to-ukraine-conflict-hit-firearms-manufacturer-molot-and-their-vepr/)
Title: Re: Molot Oruzhie Targeted by Sanctions Amid Ukraine Conflict
Post by: Panther97 on June 28, 2017, 01:40:59 PM
Umm... if they're specifically called out by name for sanctions doesn't that mean they did something bad?  If they're causing problems in that conflict, why would someone want to support them with their dollars by buying guns from them.