Reply #52: Whose sovereignty? Côte d'Ivoire's?

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This request pertains to a P7M13 that was originally sold by HK-USA and turned up in rebel hands in Côte d'Ivoire; the Group of Experts set up by the UN Security Council to monitor developments in that country wants to know how the gun got there.

This isn't necessarily intended to make the US or Heckler & Koch look bad, but it could reflect badly on whoever originally bought that pistol. Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) bought the P7M13, and given the chaos there, I'd guess that that's where the gun entered the black market.