 Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov (1919-2013) |
Posted on 04/13/2018 3:06:23 PM PDT by ARGLOCKGUY
The AK-47. And liberals want to ban it.
Give them their due, they’re awfully good at concentration camps.
Lol.
The AK is cheap and reliable.
Accurate it is not.
I guess that would make it “world class” from the perspective through which socialists view things, so perhaps you have a point.
And he copied the StG 44 (abbreviation of Sturmgewehr 44, “assault rifle 44”) is a German selective-fire rifle developed during World War II!
So did socialism invent anything?
Liberals: note definition assault rifle = selective fire, assault rifle = scary black rifle!
Socialism Has Only Produced One Thing That Is World Class and Works
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Murder ...
Hmm. The German National Socialist Party somehow weren’t socialists?
You’ve been listening to those academics who invented fifty-seven genders.
Alright picky picky picky!
Let’s agree the weren’t as socialist as the Soviets!
I bought mine when I was in the Navy stationed in San Diego in the ‘80’s. It’s a Norinco. It came with 3 30 round magazines and 500 rounds of Norinco ammo. All for $350 and no background check or waiting period. Times sure have changed.
I suppose you have seen this where a guy made an AK receiver out of a shovel (the shovel handle used for the stock) and most of the rest out of random chunks of metal and a barrel blank.
Socialism does death really well. They have exported it around the globe.
Socialism and shari’s law deal more death than McD’s deals hamburgers.
The Soviet T-34 tank was pretty durn good too.
Now that’s just weapons grade stooooopid.
I think they totally suck, but that’s just me.
I love the one that we have. They do need to be tweaked a bit to get the best performance out of them. I also like to reload my own cartridges. The surplus Eastern Block are cheap and fun but typically not as consistent as one would hope.
“If you had minimal tools but metal smithing experience its not hard to make one, far easier than an AR.”
I try to explain this to anti gunners with no luck. I used to do metal R&D, prototyping, fixturing, and manufacturing process. I had a half million $ in machines in my shop. Water jet cutter, CNC mill and lathe, welders..... I’d show them a picture of a Sten and ask them if they thoughts and I couldn’t crank them out by the ton. Aks and Uzis would take only slightly more effort.
“We should have the AR on a coin too”
I like that idea! At least have a Second Amendment challenge coin.
And many still are.
The FICA has been near death many times and been resurrected by adding in groups that had previously not been part of the system; By increasing the tax rate and by raising the age at which you can collect at the full rate.
The system was a con job on the tax payer from the beginning.
It was set up so that most men (most workers at the time were men) would die before they could ever collect benefits and their wives would only collect a few years before they died. Other than wives or dependent children there was no survivor’s benefit (other than a small burial allowance). If you died before you started collecting benefits with no wife and no dependent children, the government walked away with all of your ‘contributions’ scot free. You can not will your benefits to anyone. This is still true.
The vaunted trust fund is a complete fiction and always was.
The Trust Fund was organized so that Excess contributions to the SS would be used to purchase Special Federal Securities. These securities would not be tradable as are normal securities. They would only be redeemable to the US Treasury.
Put more simply SS was designed to bring in more money to the treasury than it cost to run the system. It was designed so that the average person in the system would die long before he got his money back out of the system.
But as usual with government socialist program eventually they fail. Medical progress succeeded in making people live longer. Too long for the SS system to continue unchanged. Not to mention politicians can never leave well enough alone and meddling with SS was just too big a temptation to resist. Benefits were added from time to time that boosted the cost.
Long story made short; Social Security is running in the Red today. It is cashing in the bonds in the ‘Trust Fund’ which in reality means that ‘Quantitative Easing’ is paying for SS benefits paid out today.
Some people in government, Hilary Clinton for one, has advocated confiscation of 401K accounts to shore up Social Security. That should tell you what a great success Social Security is today.
I myself am about 5 years away from collecting SS. I would not be at all surprised if the system collapses before I can collect. Or at least the system faces some drastic changes.
Maybe they will raise the minimum age requirement to 70. It has been suggested many times in the past, going back to G W Bush’s first term when he tried to get legislation passed to phase out the system.
Copied? Hardly.
Lars Larson has one.
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