Norinco: This Company Has Cloned (and Sold) American Gun Designs for Decades
The company is banned in the United States.
Here's What You Need to Know: Norinco has touted American gun designs for decades.
If you ask an American what their idea of a budget AR-15 brand is, you would probably get answers like Stag Arms, Palmetto State Armory and Anderson Arms: all American companies. However, if you asked a Canadian what their idea of a budget AR-15 brand is, you would likely get one answer: Norinco. Norinco has been cloning and selling American designs on the international market for decades. In the United States, the company is banned because it tried to sell guns directly to gangs in the 1990s. Regardless, here are some of the most popular American guns Norinco makes clones of.