Gun supplier to Koresh cult bags 35M Iraq deal

http://www.nydailynews.com/05-16-2004/news/story/193869p-167551c.html

U.S. authorities in Iraq have awarded a $35 million contract to an Indiana gun dealer infamous for its role as a mass distributor of assault weapons and ammo clips at U.S. gun shows.

Kiesler Police Supply Inc. of Jeffersonville, Ind., will deliver thousands of Polish and Czech-made AK-47s, Soviet-era machine guns - including some with built-in silencers - and Austrian 9-mm. handguns to equip a new Iraqi police force.

The contract is a tiny part of the $18.7 billion Iraqi reconstruction program approved by Congress.

Kiesler supplied many of the AK-47s and other assault weaponry used by David Koresh and his Branch Davidians cult in their 1993 shootout with federal agents in Waco, Tex.

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Kiesler touched off a 1999 controversy in Miami when it was caught reselling old Dade County police revolvers that were used by street gangs in Chicago. Last October, the company was fined $2,500 by the Massachusetts attorney general after a sting operation snared Kiesler selling ammo to minors over the Internet.
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