Posted on 08/19/2019 4:51:00 PM PDT by PROCON
AKs are kind of like a cheeseburger. However you want it, you can have it. Those are Jared LaMarches thoughts on the Kalashnikov, or AK, rifle. LaMarche is a gunsmith at Windsor Arms in Windsor, Vermont. They bring a bunch of their AKs and other guns to the Green Mountain Boys Machine Gun Shoot in Eden, Vermont. The event takes place mid-July of every year.
LaMarche is a big fan of AKs. A lot of people think that the AK is not a fun, or a great gun. I think its awesome, he told Guns.com at last years shoot. He went on to explain that the AK platform was made for a conscript army. Which is when you take a potato farmer, you take him out of the field and you give him a rifle, and now hes a soldier.
LaMarche demonstrated a few full auto AKs, ARs, a VEPR-12 full auto shotgun along with a few other interesting and rare guns at the Vermont shoot. He believes that once you shoot a good quality AK, with good quality ammo, you too will be a big believer in the AK platform.
What do you think? Do you prefer AK or AR?
Here are a few AKs that Ive had the pleasure of photographing over the last few years.
An AK-47 with a chopped down barrel. (Photo: Ben Philippi / Guns.com)
A super shorty AK-47. (Photo: Ben Philippi / Guns.com)
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And then there's the British EM-2 type rifle, to be known as the Rifle No.9 Mk1, for which that Brit 7mm [.280] round was developed. Those names were better known than the *Janson rifle*, [Stephan Kenneth Janson was the Anglicized version of the Polish firearm designer Captain Kazimierz Januszewski].
Add in the ,280 Tade3n Gun which was planned to replace the Bren and Vickers guns then in service, and the Brits would have had about a 50-year jump on everyone else.
Here in the US, I guess we've had a tendency to "prepare for the previous war" (or however that bit of wisdom is worded). We had used the M1 carbine during the war, and you would think we might have recognized the value of a light weight automatic weapon (chambered for a better cartridge) - but no, we insisted on .30-06 ballistics, and a slightly updated variation of the Garand rifle.
I sometimes wonder if the US Navy is currently stuck in the same rut ("preparing for the previous war"). All of our billion-dollar aircraft carriers may be just 'sitting ducks', if the ChiComs get their ship-killing ballistic missiles operational...
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