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“All the guns here are from the US, everybody knows it. If the US wants to stop this, they could easily do it one month!” He pleads: “We are asking the US to give us a chance to live, just give us a chance.”
For a country that does not manufacture weapons, a UN report in January found every type of gun was flooding Port-au-Prince: high-powered rifles such as AK47s, 9mm pistols, sniper rifles and machine guns.
The weapons are fuelling the staggering surge in Haiti’s gang-related violence.
There is no exact number for how many trafficked firearms are currently in Haiti.
The UN report said some estimates put it at half a million legal and illegal weapons here as of 2020.
It reported that guns and ammunition were being smuggled in from land, air and sea from US states such as Florida, Texas and Georgia.
Depends on scale for me. Like if there are a high number of automatic ARs going to Haiti I’d start wondering who has the capacity to alter that many guns quickly and traffic them. If its like one or two rifles a reporter heard firing very rapidly then who knows how it got there or when it was modified.
Any competent person with a little mechanical ability can do a conversion: https://www.recoilweb.com/turning-your-ar-15-into-an-m-16-150631.html
Given the size of the US, I’m sure you could find a couple guys to do it. Or even in Haiti, if you got the parts. And the parts aren’t hard to come by, the whole rifle is harder.
ARs are very easily converted, but some other rifles are not so easy. Ultimately any rifle that as an automatic version will be easy to convert.