Police get lucky - this time!

[Mortblanc]

Those rifles a VZ58 Chech surplus weapons that have just been released on the market this past year. The Scorpians are also Chech. These are not arms that were dumped on the surplus market over many years time or over a wide area, as were the AK rifles. The VZ rifles have been released only through government channels and hit the market over here last year.

Sounds like a sting operation to me, with arms furnished by government agencies to trace where they wind up.

What also puzzles me is the low magazine and ammo count.

They only have two mags per rifle and only 45 rounds per weapon. That is not even enough ammo to fill all the magazines, and only 1 1/2 mags of ammo per gun.

It seems to me that purchasing a large amount of ammo to supply the rifles would be as attention drawing as any activity one could preform.

Sounds like they were insuring that if the arms got out of their control they would have as little potential for damage as possible with few mags and practically no ammo.

I see they nabbed 7 people in the roundup. That is not surprising.