look for a milled,not stamped parts.
Bulgarian or East German are better than Chinese.
arsenalinc - made in US.
Agreed...the Chinese made AK's are pretty bad. Romania and Ukrainian made ones are good. There's also a variant made here in the US, which is pretty good.
Agreed.
It seems a fairly large number of Romanian made guns with milled receivers are finding their way to the market here in the U.S. so it might be easy to find one of those.
The important thing is milled not stamped.
Check on www.gunbroker.com which is a firearms auction site. There are always a lot of AKs on there.
Ignore the "Ask your Imam" and "Osama Envy" crowd as they are either ignorant or they are joking.
The AK-47 is an extremely reliable, fun to shoot, relatively accurate gun (I have a friend whose unmodified Russian made AK-47 will shoot a 2" 6 shot group at 100 yards).
It uses readily available, inexpensive ammunition, and is not more or less "dangerous" than any other semi-automatic firearm (I assume you are trying to get a semi-auto version as the fully auto AKs require a Federal Permit with relatively high fees and a lot of paperwork).