Is it legal to sell Norinco handguns in the US?

Question

I heard no Chinese made firearms can be sold but I see the shotguns all the time for sale.

Answer 1

Sure it's perfectly legal to sell the ones already in the country. With some of the recent changes in importation laws they might not be allowed to import more however.

Answer 2

Legal to sell, not legal to import.

NORINCO (it's spelled with all capitals as it's an acronym) failed to pay Bill Clinton a big enough bribe and he stopped importation of rifles and pistols from China, even though other Chinese interest paid him millions.

There has been no good reason for ever lifting the ban, after all China is a brutal, oppressive dictatorship that still murders it's own citizens, forces children into slave factory labor and we will one day need to fight them and their plans to take over the world.

Answer 3

Perfectly legal to sell what's already here they just can't be imported anymore.

side note:

Some guy is starting an American company with the Norinco trademark to manufacture in America all the stuff Norinco used to import. It'd be pretty cool to get an m14 clone that doesn't cost $2000+.

http://www.norinco-usa.com/#

It's slow going though.

Answer 4

In 1994 Norinco pissed off the powers that were and got themselves on the firearms import ban list

They did some of their traditional slight of hand and managed to get a few shot guns imported

The good stuff is still forbidden though

Anything here already can be sold with no restrictions and the price is going up every day

This was not a political ban DJ, if it were there are thousands of Chinese product still being imported so the slave labor rational for the ban falls short

This was a punitive ban for catching them with a shipload of fully automatic NORINCO AK bound for LA street gangs

Now you have to wonder why they would do that and why we did not treat it as an act of war, actually no you don't have to wonder