FLORIDA GUN MANUFACTURER DONATES $200,000 WORTH OF RIFLES TO UKRAINIAN FORCES

Sun 20 March 2022:

An abandoned order of guns worth $200,000 is being donated to Ukraine by a weapons manufacturing plant in Florida.

Keltec, situated in Cocoa, Florida, received an order for 400 9mm carbine rifles from a client in Odesa, Ukraine, and set about completing the bureaucratic process of shipping the weapons. Last month, Odesa was under siege, and the client was unavailable, prompting the store owner to give the abandoned firearms to the Ukrainian military.

“This is just right to get them over there so they do what they were designed to do — defend their home and state,” Industrial Production Director Adrian Kellgren said Friday.

The company said in a Friday Facebook post that it didn’t intend to announce the donation, but the media picked up on the story via its filing to the Justice Department to be registered as foreign agents to facilitate the shipment reaching Ukraine’s army.

In a Facebook post on Friday, the company said that it didn’t intend to announce the donation. But the media had picked up the story through its filing to the Justice Department to be registered as foreign agents to help the shipment reach Ukraine’s army.

The guns will first be shipped to an unknown NATO country and then arrive in Ukraine. The weapons may prove helpful to Ukrainian armed forces, who are fighting invading Russian troops.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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