For more than 60 years, one of the world’s largest dealers of surplus military weapons has been oper

"Imported, foreign-made firearms are another matter. For decades, Century has exploited a loophole to get around a federal law banning the importation of military-style rifles, according to a February 2011 investigative report jointly produced by the Center for Public Integrity and PBS’s “Frontline.” It does so by importing “slimmed down, ‘sporting’ versions of their foreign rifles” that can clear federal importation restrictions, then retrofitting them with U.S.-made parts, including bayonets and high-capacity clips.

In the late 1980s and early ’90s, Century became one of the largest importers of SKS rifles from China and Russia, a military-style, semiautomatic precursor of the AK-47. One of its more infamous deals, according to the CPI/“Frontline” report, was a shipment of weapons Weigensberg procured for the Nicaraguan Contras in the 1980s. Such transactions were illegal at the time.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, Century began buying up stockpiles of guns and ammo, including AK-47s, from former Warsaw Pact countries. According to the 2011 Palm Beach Post report, Century’s deals are often brokered by an international arms dealer and former Israeli special-forces soldier by the name of Ori Zoller. In 1999, the Post reported, Zoller purchased 3000 AK-47s for Century, but, when the deal soured, Zoller resold those weapons to AUC, a right-wing paramilitary group known for arming Colombian death squads. At the time, an attorney for the company said only that Century had committed no wrongdoing and abided by all federal laws.

In 2004, Century again made headlines when it tried shipping 7500 Romanian AK-47s — fully automatic machine guns, which were illegal for importation into the U.S. — on a Turkish ship bound for New York. Federal authorities seized the shipment in an Italian port. As the New York Post reported in an April 22, 2004 story, “The AK-47s were apparently bound for Vermont.”
http://www.7dvt.com/2013franklin-county-global-arms-dealer-quietly-makes-killing
http://www.wcax.com/story/20663350/century-international-arms

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