Obama victory prompts US gun rush

BBC ^ | November 26, 2008. | Kevin Connolly

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

In a quiet side street not far from where the Texas freeway system knits the sprawling suburbs of Houston into something like a city centre, business is booming at the Top Gun shooting range.

Recession is not biting here in the oil-rich Energy Capital of the World as it is in the rest of the United States - but that is not the only reason why it is difficult to find a parking space outside Top Gun towards the end of the working day.

[NCjim]

This Friday and Saturday, guns in S.C. will be sold tax-free

[Bosco]

I'll defer to Clint McKee of Fulton Armory:

"What's the Difference between .308 Winchester & 7.62x51mm NATO?"

7.62x54mm is also known as 7.62 Russian. Tokarev and Dragunovs fire this round.

I've got a FAL, and I'd never feed it 7.62x54 ammo.

[Ouderkirk]

It was just a typo...45 to 54 instead of 51.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"But, while many Americans would strongly disagree, gun enthusiasts see this as a struggle not about the right to target-shooting or even hunting in the wild but a dispute in which something much more profound is at stake.

They believe the constitutional guarantee of the people's right to bear arms means that the balance of power between the government and the governed is different in America from anywhere else in the developed world."

The writer does not actually lay out what the 2nd A is actually for but he certainly is alluding to it. Sounds like he gets it. Perhaps he could instruct the members of our liberal press what the 2nd A is actually for. They need the instruction.

[Technogeeb]

It was just a typo...45 to 54 instead of 51.

The only thing I know that shoots 7.62x45 is the Czech Vz.52/Vz.57 rifles.

[kAcknor]

Not really sure about the Siaga AK. I've heard good things about them and the AK design is a good one for it's purpose.

Can't say if the extractor is different in them from any other AK type, but it won't matter to the .223 vs. 5.56 issue. The throat is the distance in the chamber from where the shoulder of the round stops against the metal of the barrel and where the rifling starts. It's shorter in .233 Remington. So if you load a 5.56 in a gun chambered for the .223 round the bullet might possibly be forced into the rifling. That could cause some seriously high pressures to develop. Not good.

In the gun chambered for 5.56 the worse that will happen is a decrease in accuracy as the bullet jumps a too wide gap before engaging the rifling. In a practical sense, I don't think it will matter much for everyday shooting. Definitely not in am AK rifle. They shoot real good and for a long time, but they are not known for their accuracy. ;)

[traumer]