Florida gunmaker donates abandoned rifles worth $200,000 to Ukrainian forces

The Keltec, a weapons manufacturing plant in Florida is donating an abandoned order of rifles worth $200,000 to Ukraine.

The Keltec, based in Cocoa, Florida, got an order for 400 9mm carbine rifles from a client in Odesa, Ukraine. By the time the gun manufacturer could finalize the order after completion of the bureaucratic process of sending the weapons, Odesa was under siege. The client had also become unreachable.

It prompted the gun maker company to send the weapons 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.

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In a Facebook post on Facebook, the company said 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.

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.

(With inputs from agencies)

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