To: HoldFast
the AK is responsible for about a quarter-million deaths every year. I hate it when the AK, or any other weapon, just goes around firing itself and killing people.
Also, I guess it's time for me to open my usual can of worms by saying the AK is a blatant ripoff of the German MP-44. Someone always disagrees, however.
5 posted on
11/26/2006 3:05:42 PM PST by
edpc
(Violence is ALWAYS a solution. Maybe not the right one....but a solution nonetheless)
To: edpc
If the Iraqis are allowed one AK-47 per family, why not us in the US also?
7 posted on
11/26/2006 3:07:22 PM PST by
Paladin2
(Islam is the religion of violins, NOT peas.)
To: edpc
"Also, I guess it's time for me to open my usual can of worms by saying the AK is a blatant ripoff of the German MP-44. Someone always disagrees, however."
O.K. I'll start. The AK definitely was meant to fulfill the same design criteria as the MP-44. It is very similar is proportions, function, and ballistics. It is quite a bit differently mechanically tho. A lot different from the MP than say a 1903 Springfield is from a Mauser bolt action. Just my $.02 worth.
23 posted on
11/26/2006 3:36:20 PM PST by
CrazyIvan
(If you read only one book this year, read "Stolen Valor".)
To: edpc
"the AK is responsible for about a quarter-million deaths every year."
OMG ! Imagine if one married an SUV, the havoc they could wreak !!
25 posted on
11/26/2006 3:44:41 PM PST by
stompk
To: edpc
***the AK is responsible for about a quarter-million deaths every year.***
Population control.
44 posted on
11/26/2006 4:44:48 PM PST by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(When someone burns a cross on your lawn the best fire hose is an AK-47.)
To: edpc
Just imagine how many lives it must be responsible for SAVING each year....It's probably over a million in Africa alone...
49 posted on
11/26/2006 4:50:07 PM PST by
tcostell
(MOLON LABE)
To: edpc
I hate it when the AK, or any other weapon, just goes around firing itself and killing people.
I hate even more the number of news articles and tv reports that I have seen and read where the evil AK was the weapon of choice. Its just too easy to embellish the actual facts. One distant report here in Michigan a couple years ago initially reported that it was an AK-47 when in fact, after the smoke cleared, it was nothing more than a shotgun........of course you had to read closely between the lines of the follow-up article to actually see it........
59 posted on
11/26/2006 5:03:12 PM PST by
Hot Tabasco
(Elves are nothing more than evil little people who claim to work for Santa.)
To: edpc
I don't disagree. The AK is an obvious rip-off of the StG, but many self-proclaimed "experts" obsess over the trivial differences and claim the AK is totally original.
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