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IronBenga Posted:

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they are chinese type 56’s. pieces of trash made out of potmetal and railroad spikes with cheap wood furniture that dents when you grip it too hard. it is hard to go wrong with the kalashnikov, but boy did the chinese ever do a good job. may as well be albanian, or a khyber pbum copy Log in to see images!

Inconnu Posted:

Interesting fact: AK-47 actually doesn’t exist.

AK’s development started in 1946, it was introduced into service in 1949 as “AK 7.62 bumault rifle”, so no “47” here. The actual rifle you see in the movies all the time is either AKM (introduced 1959) or AK-74 (introduced 1974).

yep! the easiest way to tell the differences based upon the curviture of the magazine, the muzzle break, gas block, and a few other details. mikhail kalashnikov is a bloody genius.

it is funny to see americans with romanian made WASR (AKM variant) rifles calling them “MY AY KAY FAUTY SEBEN.”

So why is the name AK-47 so prevalent?

Melanin-Enhanced Individual Posted:

yep! the easiest way to tell the differences based upon the curviture of the magazine, the muzzle break, gas block, and a few other details. mikhail kalashnikov is a bloody genius.

it is funny to see americans with romanian made WASR (AKM variant) rifles calling them “MY AY KAY FAUTY SEBEN.”

finally the weapon market is open to young eastern entreprenours such as myself

chammisan Posted:

@LHO and My Love;

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Melanin-Enhanced Individual Posted:

it has always been open, most of the illicit arms i have seen moving around came from european countries. there is this glorified notion that the majority of arms used in various dirty little wars around the globe came from the former soviet union and its satellites, but that is hardly true, maybe in the late 80’s, early 90’s. military forces in europe are constantly changing the hardware they use, both east and west, and anything they no longer need is sold to arms dealers who move the weapons around the globe. places like belgium, germany, france, romania, the czech republic and slovakia, all sell weapons to arms dealers.

it is a lucrative market and you should get in on it, before the UN signs more small arms proliferation treaties.

Im learning more about international politics and geography from this thread than i had learned on high school

Patently Chill Prestidigitator Posted:

the fact that i am seriously considering this says a lot about how much future polisci students have post graduation

In the US at least PoliSci is one of those things you major in if you want to be a lawyer or college professor. Or barista.

Melanin-Enhanced Individual Posted:

it has always been open, most of the illicit arms i have seen moving around came from european countries. there is this glorified notion that the majority of arms used in various dirty little wars around the globe came from the former soviet union and its satellites, but that is hardly true, maybe in the late 80’s, early 90’s. military forces in europe are constantly changing the hardware they use, both east and west, and anything they no longer need is sold to arms dealers who move the weapons around the globe. places like belgium, germany, france, romania, the czech republic and slovakia, all sell weapons to arms dealers.

it is a lucrative market and you should get in on it, before the UN signs more small arms proliferation treaties.

Nice, upvoted. With the only correction being, if we’re talking official government military contracts rather than “illicit arms”, it’s not really flexible, the contracts are set for years and years.

I.e. Austrian Steyr AUG is adopted as standard service weapon in many countries, and the trade contracts are always long-term, meaning that the market in these countries is “lucrative” only for resellers and small dealers, while fat government deals are inaccessible for decades.