![]() ![]() To date, sources to verify the veracity of any of these claims remain elusive and are speculative at best, though the term NM (National Match) has been used previously with other Chinese arsenal derived AK variant firearms. Among them, New Helvetia Mercantile (NHM) Corporation, commonly found stamped on a number of imported firearms across the United States. There is some debate on what the acronym NHM actually stands for, it’s alleged the three letters denote the name ‘Nam Hum Manufacturer’ while others believe the letters actually stand for ‘National Heavy Match.’ It should be noted that a now defunct business operating out of Sacramento, California known as ‘Old Sacramento Armory’ owned by Edward Faust, imported firearms under a number of different company names. This differentiation is usually monetary based, used to denote rifles with certain cosmetic features available before the 1989 ban which were no longer available post legislation. The terms pre-ban and post-ban respectively are routinely used to describe various models of semi-automatic rifles that were either manufactured before or after the 1989 ban went into effect. The Norinco NHM series of rifles can be considered highly political in their origins, owing their existence in large part, if not entirely to the 1989 assault weapons ban. ![]()
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