Me & my AK-47

[armoredman]

...constiutionally protected ABORTION...

Protected by the "emanations of the penumbra"....
Well, the inporter of the rifle was paid, the distributer was paid, the bealer was paid, all details of the sale were legal, so whatever she does with HER rifle is whatever she wants to do, and possibly keep it, as, since it was used for an srticle, she can now write off the purchase price as a business expense....
Who knows? Maybe some day she will shoot? Give her credit for going in, handling, and buying something that scared her to feath however irrationally. I hate going into beauty parlors and lingerie stores....

 

[benEzra]

I wrote pointing out that real AK's are different from civvie AK lookalikes, and are restricted by the National Firearms Act (and pointed out that she had been misled on the ballistics). Very courteous reply. I don't think she was intending to write a one-sided piece, it's just that the anti's have intentionally conflated civvie AK lookalikes with real NFA Class III's for so long that a lot of people don't know they're different and don't know to ask.

 

[Beren]

I haven't gotten a response yet. Probably scared her off when I offered to help her build an AR for her next article.

 

[DRZinn]

The "feel" I get from that last paragraph is "and isn't it a shame that it's that easy?"

 

[beerslurpy]

Oh yeah, here is the email I sent. Lol internet stalker.

Congrats on your purchase of an AK47 variant. They are highly
entertaining to shoot as you will soon find out. Dont touch the barrel
after shooting it because it will get very hot. I burned my palm after
I shot one the first time. Anyway, I applaud your curiosity and your
open mindedness, but there are one or two minor errors in the article.

-the AK47 was not designed for tank crews. The AMD65 (a later
hungarian variant) and the krinkov (a soviet variant) were the vehicle
crew weapons. They were much smaller and lighter and sometimes shot
different caliber rounds. You may have gotten this confused with the
story of Mikhail Kalashnikov, who was a tanker before he invented the
gun. In any case, the traditional AK (of which your gun is a copy) is
designed as a basic infantry soldier weapon.

-a mile away. No. The AK47 is one of the least accurate military
rifles in the world. The bullet drops like a stone past 350 yards and
you will probably have trouble hitting stuff past 150 yards without a
lot of practice and something to lean against. At 1760 yards (a mile),
you can pretty much laugh at someone firing an AK at you. They have a
better chance of hitting the lottery and the bullet will have almost
no energy left at that range anyway.

-massive organ/tissue damage. Again no. Dr Fackler (who treated
thousands of AK47 injuries in vietnam and is one of the foremost
experts on bullet wounds) wrote a great article (below) after the
Stockton Massacre in which 85 percent of the children shot at close
range with an AK47 survived. The early AK47 round was designed as a
penetrator and does this instead of yawing, fragmenting or expanding.
Wound ballistics and bullet design were relatively primitive in the
1940s, and the soviets did what they could with limited knowledge.
Fackler: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/wbardwel/public/nfalist/fl_aw_report2.txt

Thats pretty much it. Oh yeah, www.aimsurplus.com usually has ammo for
very cheap, and magazines as well. Cheapasdirt.com and ammoman.com
also have decent deals. Be wary of paying more than 10cents a round
for AK ammo. Buy it 1000 rounds at a time, you will go through it
quick. I would load up 2-300 rounds worth of magazines the night
before you go to the range so you dont waste lane time busting your
thumbs.

Have fun, be safe.

-jim

 

[Len_in_Phoenix]

This one is getting a lot of attention from pro-2nd Amendment bloggers around the 'net. Here's mine: One in a row - AK-47

Len in PHoenix