I like MP5's

[ohiomgman]

AK's equal (=) commie....Build a AR, and save our roots. (2 cents). Mike

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.

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.

[ohiomgman]

I build AK's too


MP5 look's great!

Over the years I just fell into building all kinds of AK's as it seemed to be where the niche for me was laying. Can't complain. The AK has been good to me. I used to build lots of FN's also, M14's, M1's and at one time owned the Ohio market in NICE Enfields. Used to buy them four hundred fifty at a time, after cherry picking them out, in Century's warehouse. NOW that was a good sized pile!

I have slowed down a lot in the last 15 years... What I used to do in a day now takes a week..

[raymond]

I never really like the AK. The sights are crap. Then I fired an Israeli Galil. The Galil is the AK the Russians should have built.

http://world.guns.ru/assault/isr/galil-e.html

[Motorcityman]

I never really like the AK. The sights are crap. Then I fired an Israeli Galil. The Galil is the AK the Russians should have built.

http://world.guns.ru/assault/isr/galil-e.html

The sights aren't crap you just have to learn how to use them, Yes the sight aperture on the Galil is more of a western sight which makes is somewhat more user friendly for people who are used to the M16 system. Personally I can hit man sized targets at 350 meters all day long with a stock sighted AK, for a combat rifle I don't know what more you could want, are there better alternatives, sure there are but the sights that are standard on an AK have been used on rifles for hundreds of years. Heck the sights on my springfield trapdoors are very similar. As far as function though and ruggedness the rifle can't be beat. As far as the Galil goes it's a direct deritavive of the AK, the gas system, Fire control and barrel assembly is the same, cosmeticly maybe different but not much really. An outstanding gun in it's own right, I own two myself, both ARM's.

[raymond]

I like the aperture sight of the Galil on the back of the receiver. It gives a longer sight radius. I also like the NATO caliber.