Naxalites with AK-47s

One question came to mind when I saw the newspaper on Saturday. Where did the Naxalites get the AK-47s from?

In case you were on vacation, Karnataka now has a Naxalite problem. Naxalites gunned down a few policemen in Tumkur and got away. Apparently, they used AK-47s.

Are these guns available so easily? Maybe Tehelka can try to buy one and figure it out for us.

As an aside, more buses were burned--this time in Koramangala. That's a mature response for sure. Whatever happened to that predominantly non-violent way in which we won our independence from the British?