I thought the Century Arms RAS-47 and Arsenal AKs were produced in the USA.
They can buy them from Russia for a few bucks apiece. Let’s spend a billion on a knock-off that will be riddled with bugs. That’s government thinking.
Should be pretty easy to find a company - the designs are simple and low tech
Back in January, there was a story about Kalashnikov USA setting up a production facility in Florida. Pompano Beach, I believe.
Is there a Ti version?
Can’t kill a weapon as reliable as the AK47 and its variants.
The nicest AK I have seen is the Valmet.
If it shot as well as it looked it would have been a good one. I came within a hair of trading for one many years ago.
Pity they won’t get someone like Ruger to make one. I’d love to have a Ruger quality version to play with.
What bothers me, is the amount of weapons we destroy.
I recall in Vietnam, they’d have a cache of commie guns, and destroy them. Perfectly good guns with lots of ammo they could issue to the ARVNs.
Fast forward to Iraq. Betcha the whole Iraqi army was outfitted with US arms, and their Russian stuff canned.
Just dumb, plain dumb.
Same with vehicles. Need parts, buy’em from the Ruskies. Save some bucks. Look what happened to all the humvees anyway, the muzzie militants have them. Just stupid.
When Gust Avrakotos and Charlie Wilson were making life hell for the Sovs in the ‘80, we were buying AKs from Egypt, (with Russian proof marks just to break balls) for $26 per rifle... and half that was probably bribes to somebody.
The Polish AK is the best. Why can’t we buy it from them? Who needs the Russians.
Pat Cadell is essentially a republican now.
Love my Saiga. I bought it before the ban and got it for a great price.