Posted on 07/09/2016 4:35:43 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Initial reports from Dallas described multiple snipers with AR-15s #weaponsofwar. The ongoing propaganda theme among the tabloids is that the AR-15 has become the weapon of choice for terrorists and mass shooters. It turns out that the terrorist in Dallas question used an antique, the SKS, (according to CBS News) but the facts never keep the press from a good propaganda theme.
The SKS was designed in the 40s in Russia. It is such a basic rifle that it is legal in California with no modification. With its fixed ten round magazine, the SKS is everything that the gun haters in California say a rifle must be. It is not black, no pistol grip, no flash hider or folding stock. It even shoots a intermediate power cartridge, 7.63 X 39. It is used as a cheap hunting gun across the US. I am sure that at this moment, some law maker in California is writing new legislation to close the mad man with an antique rifle loophole.
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That is a Saiga 5.45x39-mostly unconverted. He’s using Tapco (crapco) magazines.
The stock is a Zhukov Stock made by Magpul.
I can’t tell the scope though. Primary Arms maybe.
Correct. One is an AR-15 the other is a semi-converted Saiga 5.45x39
Spike bayonet is Chinese. Unless it was an older SKS variant that the Albanians use., It has a cruciform spike, as opposed to the 3 fuller Chinese spike.
More prescience from Matt Bracken.
There is a relatively rare SKS variant that uses AK mags.
Are there? News to me.
In my experience, .30 cal bullet holes in sheet metal are surrounded by a dent. Those look like .22 cal to me.
That was a marketing ploy by an importer, I believe. The earlier versions were called "Cowboy's Companions." "Paratrooper" was less gay, I guess.
Local radio guy did an ad for a gun shop. Called the Garand an M-I Grand. That’s M as in Mary, I as in Idiot, Grand.
No. The former is clearly an AR variant, the latter an AK variant.
“No, morality is not relative. Morality is written on the human heart. We all know that some things are right and others are not.”
Sure sounds like “relative” to me, because what you “know” as right may not be the same as someone else “knows” as right. The history of man is full of such dichotomies.
That may change one of these days. One of these days right soon....
You know who Hans Kalm was?
Avoid the 30-round magazines, the spring of which places too much tension against the bottom of the bolt during its travel for the first ten rounds or so. The main reason for going to a detatchable AK-type magazine on a SKS is if you're going to mount a scope on the rifle, which prevents loading it from the top the way it should be done.
For the same reason, also avoid the 30-round fixed-in-place accessory magazines for the SKS. The shorter 20-round versions may give acceptable results, but the extension protruding from the bottom of the rifle prevents the good use of the rifle from the prone position, and turns it into a from-the-hip or off-the-shoulder bullet hose instead of the handy carbine that it is- in its issue form. Most SKS carbines I've shot will outshoot most Ruger Mini-14 rifles I've tried head-to-head comparisons with, given quality ammo. Most of what's available for the SKS is not, though it's reliable enough and okay for a 16-inch barrelled AK.
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