lysanderxiii
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That is like asking what if you were your own grandfather.What if a patriotic American had designed what later became the AK-47 in 1927 and had entered it in the testing trials against the Garand and Pedersen offerings? How would it have been received?
- The AK-47 would have been selected instead of the Garand.
- The AK-47 would have ultimately been selected in place of either the M1 Carbine, the Thompson submachine gun or the greaser.
- The AK-47 would have been rejected because it wasn't chambered in either .276 Pedersen or .30-06 Springfield.
- It would have been rejected with regard to its accuracy.
- It would have been rejected due to "politics."
- The US Military would have bought the design and then buried it, afraid the Axis would easily duplicate it.
- It would have been rejected for...?
Many of the the elements of the AK were borrowed from the Garand, a good designer copies what works.
A more interesting question is "What if George Washington wrote the Communist's Manifesto?"