We attended Waffen Sammlerborse 2025, which is a Swiss Gun Show in Lucerne. It’s an odd mix of SHOT Show—with its wide range of exceptional and well-stocked distributors–and a local gun show with Fudds (yes there are Swiss Fudds) hawking overpriced memorabilia.
Here is a Chinese NEDI underfolder AK. Since Chinese AKs have been banned from import into the US since the 1990s, I don’t know much about this brand and what the difference is with Polytech or Norinco. Given the size of the investment needed to start producing AKs at scale and profitably (the AK is by no means an easy rifle to start manufacturing correctly from the ground up), it seems unlikely to me that NEDI would just come out of nowhere and start producing AKs without having some prior relationship with either Polytech or Norinco.
NEDI AKs are all over Switzerland as well as Poland and probably other European countries. From what I’ve heard talking to European dealers, when distributors buy AKs or ARs from China (yes they make Temu ARs) , there is a bit of an understanding that you don’t know exactly which factory they are coming from. As one Polish dealer put it, “with China, you never really know.”
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