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1 posted on 11/14/2015 11:53:28 AM PST by SeekAndFind

A Kalashnikov on the street has a limited lifespan when you have a .308 on a roof.

31 posted on 11/14/2015 12:23:51 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)

I'm not disagreeing with the premise, but I want to challenge one of the misconceptions.

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.

38 posted on 11/14/2015 12:32:11 PM PST by jdege

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.

39 posted on 11/14/2015 12:33:21 PM PST by Vermont Lt (I had student debt. It came from a bank. Not from the Govt.)

Ukraine is the world’s largest arms bazaar, legal AND illegal.

40 posted on 11/14/2015 12:34:22 PM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)

I don’t know how they get them in but, I believe, I know where they are stored until needed.

Basements of the mosques.

45 posted on 11/14/2015 1:08:13 PM PST by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)

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.

56 posted on 11/14/2015 2:57:35 PM PST by Frederick_Barbarossa