8000 kalashnikov from Romania to Georgia (USA)

In the news, this morning:

ARMS: OVER 8000 KALASHNIKOV SEIZED IN GIOIA TAURO
(AGI) – Gioia Tauro (Reggio Calabria), Italy, Apr. 20 – Tax police and customs officers seized over 8000 Kalashnikov light machine guns in the Gioia Tauro port. Firerms were imported in Italy illegally by the MS Adnan Bayraktar, coming from Costanza in Romania. According to the bills of lading, the firearms were directed in Georgia in the United States.
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201232 APR 04

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In another site it's said that to avoid custom procedure the machine-gun were somewhat modified.

Anyone knows if this is a normal shipment, a normal procedure?

I wonder who it was going to in Georgia. It's one thing for it to go to a major gun dealer, but another if it's going to some random house.