From Reuters, 4/20/04:
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=4881819

Italy Seizes 8,000 Kalashnikovs Headed to U.S.

ROME (Reuters) -

Italian customs has seized more than 8,000 Kalashnikovs and other
weapons on a ship headed to the United States, officials said Tuesday.

The arms, worth about six million euros, were discovered aboard a ship
arriving from Romania that pulled into the southern Italian port of
Gioia Tauro on its way to the United States, Italy's customs said in a
statement.

According to travel documents, the arms are the property of a large
U.S. company headquartered in the U.S. state of Georgia.

"We know that the destination was North America, but we don't
effectively know if that's where the arms were going," a customs
official told RAI state television.

The arms were found inside three different containers during a routine
customs check earlier this week.

They were confiscated due to discrepancies in the customs forms but
the news was only made public Tuesday.

The customs office said the weapons had been described as "common
guns" instead of assault rifles and longer-range combat arms in the
travel documentation.

Romania's National Agency for Export Control (ANCEX) said in a
statement:

"There have been transfers of weapons of small caliber and of light
weapons from Romania to the United States.

"Their export was done according to Romanian law, on the basis of
individual export authorizations and on confirmation from the American
authorities prior to the transfer," the ANCEX statement said.

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How many of these shipments do you suppose weren't stopped? And where
were they headed?