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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Blame the Nazi Germans for making me become a gun designer ... I always wanted to construct agriculture machinery.

-- Mikhail Kalashnikov

I am proud to have created a weapon that has become a symbol of resistance against tyranny.

-- Mikhail Kalashnikov

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s funny that Kalashnikov and Glock, designers of the two most used guns in the world, originally designed mundane things. Kalash with farm equipment, and Glock with shower curtains

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Glock with shower curtains

holy shit now that's a jump

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It was made out of a Clock because all you need to do is add a little line.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Cave Johnston level of jump.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Trump is a real gamer and knows AKs usually do more damage in games than their Western counterparts

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think that's to imply the AK is chambered for 7.62×39mm, which does hit harder than 5.56mm NATO.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

AK-74/AKM are for 5.45x39mm, 7.62 was used for early types of AK.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Not to ‘Ackchyually’ you, but the AKM is also chambered in 7.62. The 74 was the one to bring in the intermediate cartridge.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

ak47 trump-anguish

Eugene Stoner of failing ArmaLite has a problem... his gas system is no longer "hot"

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Red Dawn (1984) was about Russia invading.

Red Dawn (2012) was about juche-boi invading.

It's time for Red Dawn 3: Chavistas! maduro-katana-1maduro-katana-2 chavez-guns marx-guns-blazing

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I loved learning about those guns. They're simultaneously put together by some eldritch instructions, but also invincible.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also simple and cheap to make. They say logistics win wars, and the war in Ukraine shows that ignoring nukes, peer combat will be quite conventional.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

although drones are likely to be the 21st century's machine gun

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

Drones and a fuckload of conventional artillery. Turns out the latter has always been hyper effective against damn near any target if you can spot efficiently.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Tolerances? Nahhhh

Sand? Don’t care

Water? Shake it off

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Apparently there aren't many 47s left. I'm told most of the AKs in circulation are AKMs or 74s, or newer variants.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

I don’t think 47s were ever issued or were quickly replaced with AKMs and 74s.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

The AK47 is just a concept at this point. It's the slightly scarier "assault weapon".

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Oh, this is gonna piss off the gun nuts

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago

morshupls trump-anguish

Most gun folks in this country do not recognize the superiority of gas pistons over direct impingement, but my friends overseas are saying that over the years of fighting in some of the worst conditions that it is really no contest, the gas piston is just better folks!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Outside of certain sects of Fudds I think the general gun nut consensus is that ARs and AKs have both been functionally perfected, and either is fine. Modern ARs can be beat to shit and keep cycling rounds, and modern AKs have much better accuracy than their cheap ancestors did.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Let us plunge now into the new frontier

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah. Even chuddier gun nuts respect the AK, in my experience.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Revolver Ocelot in shambles brace-cowboy

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Comrade Trump. ACTIVATE!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

counter-strike brain

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

marx-guns-blazing

“We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.”

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

“It has a very distinct sound when being fired at us."

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

I sure love mine! Thank you, Zastava