But the percentage of people owning such guns is lower as compared to those owning country-made firearms such as kattas or tamanchas,” says Major General (retd) Dipankar Banerjee of Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies. Sophisticated small arms enter India through Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan, regions bordering Nepal, Nagaland and Manipur some are also made in places like Munger in Bihar.
“The arms market is thriving in India and the law is ill-equipped to put curbs on it. Experts, however, fear these unused Russian rifles would ultimately land in the illegal weapons market. Incidentally, the original Russian manufacturer, Izhmash Corporation, no longer makes the AK-47 or AK-56 in fact, Kremlin is planning to destroy five million AK-47s piled up in its arsenal. Knockoffs are cheaper and usually originate in Hungary, Bulgaria, Pakistan or China.
But what most people don’t know is that Gaffar Market is also the place where you can buy an AK-47 of Soviet make or its younger sibling, the AK-74, for anything between Rs 60,000 and Rs 5 lakh, depending on the originality of the weapon.
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