When I was a gun dealer I used to sell Hakims. The joke was that they had been dropped only once.
Haha..
When i was with the Singapore Armament Dept a few years back, i still remember being surprised at the number of Uzis (normal and mini) that we have in our stockade.
Nobody in Singapore (army, special Ops or enforcement) uses these ever, so i went to ask our old timer Foreman, who was here from the beginning of Dept around 35 years ago.
he told me that the Uzis were an ongoing part of a secret defense agreement package we had signed with the new state of Israel back then.
singapore, and Israel, were then newly independent and were surrounded by Muslim nations. So a bond was cast, and it remains that way ever since.
The Israeli military advisers that came here, were passed of as mexicans. Naturally, they knew little latin, so we were very careful to host them and filter out other foreign visitors.
Why non of our boys uses Uzi? i asked him.
he revealed that we did testing on the normal Uzis and found a problem with the trigger mechanism, which jams when dropped. The Uzi has its many strength but was also deemed not rugged enough for the asian terrain. the mini Uzi has lesser problems i recall.
However, we didn't want to upset the Israelis and so continue purchasing the Uzis. We did manage to fix the problem though, but recommended the Uzis to be kept as strategic reserve weapon.
a small little history note.
sincerely,
nasir kasmani.
