US Navy pilot-turned-gunmaker is supplying hundreds of rifles to Ukraine
“[T]he X-factor here not isn’t necessarily what equipment you’re holding. ... It comes down to the will to fight.”
BY HALEY BRITZKY | PUBLISHED MAR 21, 2022 12:46 PM
Agun manufacturer in Florida is donating 400 rifles to Ukraine’s resistance to Russia’s invasion.
Adrian Kellgren, a former U.S. Navy pilot and the director of industrial production of KelTec, which was founded by his father in Cocoa, Florida, has joined thousands of other U.S. veterans and average civilians who are looking for ways to help the Ukrainian people, whether through donations of money or equipment or by actually traveling to Ukraine to fight.
The American people “want to do something,” Kellgren told the Associated Press, who first reported his involvement, because when you “see a group of people out there getting hammered like this, it’s heartbreaking.” In response to a Facebook comment about the reported donation, KelTec’s Facebook page responded that they “weren’t going to go public with that information,” but the “media caught wind of it.”
US Navy pilot-turned-gunmaker is supplying hundreds of rifles to Ukraine
The $200,000 weapons order was originally made by a longtime customer in Ukraine last year, American Military News reported, but Kellgren “lost contact” with the customer before Russia’s invasion in February. Once the invasion began, Kellgren connected with a diplomat in the Ukrainian Embassy, the AP reported, who helped expedite a federal arms export license “in just four days,” as opposed to the typically months-long process.
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