AK's = the most copied, produced, sucessful and reliable assault rifle ever produced in human history. With over 200 million having been produced... If you added and then totaled up, the numbers of every other gas powered or blowback powered, magazine fed, military issued rifle in the world... The AK platform has outnumbered, outsold, outproduced and been fired in anger more than FOUR times their number.acudanut wrote:AK's equal (=) commie....Build a AR, and save our roots. (2 cents). Mike
The Lord Of War
"Of all the weapons in the vast soviet arsenal, nothing has been more profitable than Avtomat Kalashnikova model of 1947, more commonly known as the AK-47, or Kalashnikov. It's the worlds most popular assault rifle, a weapon all fighters love. An elegantly simple nine pound amalgamation of forged steel and plywood, it doesn't break, jam, or overheat. It will fire whether it's covered in mud or filled with sand. It's so easy even a child could use it, and they do. The Soviets put the gun on a coin. Mozambique put it on their flag. Since the end of the Cold War, the Kalashnikov has become the Russian people's greatest export. After the AK47, comes vodka, caviar, and suicidal novelists."
The AR with an impinging gas piston is now...somewhat...the rifle it should have been fifty years ago.
I used to have my 12 and 10 year old nieces building all the AR's I sold... A caveman could build one. As long as all those highly machined and hi-tech parts, had any kind of fit...or affinity...for each other.