Bill, if I remember correctly we could ship back bolt action or semi-auto Chicoms but if we wanted to ship an AK the barrel had to be filled with lead so that it wouldn't fire. I had a brand new Swedish K (looked a lot like the old "Grease Gun") that still had the bluing on the firing pin. It didn't climb like the WWII grease gun - it had very little climb at all. I was going to break it down and pack it inside the guts of a mini-refrigerator but I chickened out at the last minute and sold it. At the time, all I wanted to do was get home without any hassles. Other than taking off in near typhoon conditions (the wind was getting under the wings of the plane trying to flip it over) and then missing the runway in Oakland (first touchdown was in the Bay, second and third were in the sand, fourth was on the runway) it was a very uneventful trip. We gave the pilot 3 "touch and goes" for his effort at Oakland.