What makes you think this bunch of Matxists charged their fellow travellers a nickel?
I'll pass on a drink 'cause we'd better have our wits about us.
In countries which barely have a military, or which have one which can be corrupted, 2000 weapons will do nicely for the cannon fodder to haul around. A couple thousand in the right place at the right time in a small country can make or break an operation. Far more has been done with less.
WWI was started with a revolver.
The Rhodesians found out shooting select fire weapons on semi-auto improved fire discipline, and increased the number of kills for the ammo expended.
Vietnam was lousy with SKS variants, which may not have helped the individual troops, but used less ammo, were effective weapons, and killed far too many of our guys.
Besides, the average gunowner is depending on $700 semi-autos to be able to defeat this kind of crap if push comes to shove.
re: Rhodesians and semi auto. Please don’t come here and post drivel from undocumented sources. It isn’t hard to check around and see you are posting stuff that is just plain BS:
http://www.thehighroad.org/archive/index.php/t-94342.html
Bottom line: The jury will ALWAYS be out on whether semi auto is better than full auto 3 shot bursts than full auto whole magazine. It all depends on how many are coming at you, how many of you there are, how much ammo you have, distance,whether you are considered expendable or someone invested some training in you, and a thousand other variables....
Sheese.