A Kalashnikov on the street has a limited lifespan when you have a .308 on a roof.
AK47s are not high-powered weapons. If they fired a full-power round, they'd not be assault rifles. (And they'd be a lot heavier, clumsier, and harder to control on full-auto.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_rifle
An assault rifle is a selective-fire rifle that uses an intermediate cartridge and a detachable magazine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate_cartridge
An intermediate cartridge is a firearm cartridge that is less powerful than typical full-power battle rifle cartridges such as the United Kingdom .303 British, Russian 7.62x54mm, German 7.92x57mm Mauser or United States .30-06 Springfield, but still have significantly longer effective range than pistol cartridges.
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The first intermediate cartridge to see widespread service was the German 7.92x33mm Kurz used in the StG 44. Other examples include the Soviet 7.62x39mm used in the AK-47 and AKM series, and the .280 British round developed for the EM-2. The 5.56x45mm NATO cartridge is also an intermediate cartridge.
Note - the full-powered Russian round is the 7.62x54mm, the AK-47 uses the 7.62x39mm - a much shorter case, with less powder, generating lower pressures and significantly lower velocity.
You can characterize the AK-47 as rapid-fire, but you cannot characterize it as high-powered, because it simply isn't.
Didn’t these guys watch Sons Of Anarchy? The guns come to the biker gangs through the Irish. The Sons sell them to black and brown.
Ukraine is the world’s largest arms bazaar, legal AND illegal.
I don’t know how they get them in but, I believe, I know where they are stored until needed.
Basements of the mosques.
Since when is the anemic little, puny 7.62x39 round “HIGH POWERED”?
High speed, yes. High Powered? NO!
30.06 is HIGH POWERED
7.62X54R is HIGH POWERED
Relatively speaking, one could argue that the .308 MIGHT qualify for high powered.
.50 is absolutely, most definitely high powered.
But 7.62x39???
Opinions may differ, but this writer does NOT include that punk butt round as HIGH POWERED.
Flame on.
Since when is the anemic little, puny 7.62x39 round “HIGH POWERED”?
High speed, yes. High Powered? NO!
30.06 is HIGH POWERED
7.62X54R is HIGH POWERED
Relatively speaking, one could argue that the .308 MIGHT qualify for high powered.
.50 is absolutely, most definitely high powered.
But 7.62x39???
Opinions may differ, but this writer does NOT include that punk butt round as HIGH POWERED.
Flame on.