And you thought U.S. gun prices were high.......

[ABNAK]

My point in posting this article was that you'd think in Middle Eastern gun bazaars that you could get weapons "dirt cheap". The article alludes to the fact that apparently at one time they were much less expensive than now with the ISIS threat.

Any vets from Iraq or Afghanistan recall seeing prices for things like AK's in civilian bazaars? Figure in Iraq the country is awash in AK's and even during our occupation every household was allowed one AK if memory serves. I can't see some Afghan goat herder dropping $700 for an AK (yeah, I know that's not in northern Iraq).

[Miami_JBT]

Those Kurds are looking to protet themselves and their families from ISIS are buy weapons and the Peshmerga are so under equipped that new enlistees are bringing their own weapons from home.

I hope that they win this war and become a independent state.

[yellowfin]

It's interesting, isn't it, how our country is one of the few that makes full auto on a rifle some kind of oogedy boogedy no no when elsewhere it's just another feature like a safety or a stock.