US gunmaker donates abandoned rifles worth $200,000 to Ukrainian forces
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The Keltec, which is based in Cocoa, Florida, had earlier got an order for 400 9mm carbine rifles from a client in Odesa, Ukraine. By the time the gun manufacturer could finalise the order after completion of the bureaucratic process of sending the weapons, Odesa was under siege. The client had also become unreachable. Industrial Production Director Adrian Kellgren on Friday said, "This is just right to get them over there so they do what they were designed to do — defend their home and state."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.