In several recent occasions, Chinese fisherman has discovered at least 3 US made assault rifles while fishing at the waters of the Taiwan Straits.
Police are still investigating on this matter, internet rumors have spread that they may link to foreign covert operations or a smuggling ring.
news report on one of the following incident. (translated article)
On September 18, Straits City Daily newspaper reported that, A 30 Year old fisherman from Quanzhou City, Fujian Province discovers an automatic rifle inscribes with English marking “USA” caught in his fishing net while fishing at the South China Sea near the Taiwan Straits. The fisherman later handed the weapon over to the outpost of the Quanzhou Coast Guard.
On September the Coast Guard authorities had affirmed that weapon is real, and considered the possibility that the weapon may belong to Taiwanese forces, but could not list out the possibility that the weapon may be left by smugglers to avoid the patrol of the Marine Police.
The Coast Guard confirmed that the weapon to be an American made M4 assault rifle with serial number L508120, the weapon is cast from stainless steel, even though soaked in the ocean, it was not rusted at all. No bullets were found in the cartridge. Regarding to the origins of the weapon, the departments are concerned with further investigation. But authorities are not optimistic to investigation result, because the gun origin is basically difficult to trace.
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