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>Aren't all the AKs floating around from Soviet-era stockpiles?

Norinco still manufactures Type 56s for export. When Germany reunited in 1990, all of East Germany's stocks of MPi-Ks were almost immediately dumped on the open international arms market as part of a wider liquidation of the now-defunct NVA's assets and infrastructure.
Zastava still makes M70s for export and Serbia itself only very recently completed replacing it with the M21 and M19.