A community portal about AK-47 with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The AK-47 is a gas-operated assault rifle designed by Mikhail Kalashnikov, and produced by Russian manufacturer Izhevsk Mechanical Works and used...
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A community portal about AK-47 with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The AK-47 is a gas-operated assault rifle designed by Mikhail Kalashnikov, and produced by Russian manufacturer Izhevsk Mechanical Works and used in many Eastern bloc nations during the Cold War. It was adopted and standardized in 1947. Compared with the auto-loading rifles used in World War II, the AK-47 was generally more compact, with a shorter range, a smaller 7.62 × 39 mm cartridge, and was capable of selective fire. It was one of the first true assault rifles and remains the most widely used and known. More AK-47 rifles and variants have been produced than any other assault rifle; production continues to this day.
FORT WALTON BEACH – A 23-year-old Fort Walton Beach man accused of concealing a firearm was arrested Dec. 17 on charges of carrying a concealed weapon and probation violation.
Deputies saw Harrison Carpenter walking on Beal Parkway at 1:30 a.m....
Jeff Woods reports:
It’s legal for permit-holders to carry pistols openly in state parks under one of several new laws adopted by the legislature this year to loosen restrictions on guns. More than 250,000 people have permits to carry handguns in Tennessee.
Embody, who declined to talk with The City Paper, is saying on Internet chat rooms [...]
So it was a bad hike, then?
He was wearing military boots and a black skull cap,” she said. “He didn’t look like the friendliest of guys. It was scary.”
Park rangers said they made a felony arrest in the parking lot after closely following him. He was later released.
The man had a carry permit, and the [...]
The first I really knew about the AK-47 was in the 1980s when the Sandinistas were getting Soviet-made AK-47s while Oliver North was busy buying Chinese-made AK-47s for the Contras. Well, I just read a piece about the AK-47 that surprised me.
The surprise was that I had just assumed the AK-47 was not really that popular and, well, that the M-16 was the "standard" assault rifle. An article titled Automatic for the People: The AK-47 says...
-- Boston police found a 40-year-old mother dead in her Dorchester Saturday night but have not yet classified her death as a homicide. The victim apparently died from head trauma, and witnesses overheard a loud argument coming from her apartment earlier in the night. [Herald]
-- Saturday was anything but a good day for a New Hampshire man who allegedly had to use his AK after bartenders at a Lynn reaturant declined to serve him alcohol...
The AK-47 (Kalashnikov's assault rifle, model of the year 1947: shortened from Russian: Автомат Калашникова образца 1947 года, in English Avtomat Kalashnikova 1947) is an assault rifle operated by gas that was frequently used by numerous Eastern bloc nations during and throughout the Cold War. Standardized and adopted in 1947, the AK-47 was originally produced by Russian manufacturer Izhevsk Mechanical Works and designed by Mikhail Kalashnikov. Improving upon the auto-loading rifles frequently used in World War II (the StG-44 aside), the dominant AK-47 was generally more compact, with a smaller 7.62 × 39 mm cartridge, a shorter range, and was capable of selective fire. ...
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The HK P2000 or Heckler & Koch (H&K) P2000 and P2000SK are pistols based upon the popular H&K USP (Universal Self Loading Pistol). The weapon has an ambidextrous magazine release and slide locks. Background The pistol is a polymer based firearm that is capable of firing +P rounds throughout the life of the pistol. The pistol comes available chambered in either .357 SIG cartridge, .40 caliber S&W, or 9 mm Luger. The P2000SK model pistol is a much smaller, "sub compact" variatn of the P2000. The P200SK comes available in all the same calibers. The P2000 / P2000SK pistols utilize Short Recoil Linkless Modified ...
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Here's an interesting 4-minute short from Discovery Channel on differences between the Soviet-designed AK-47 and the American M-16. My only comment: Only one round on the paper at 200 yards? I wonder if that AK was ever sighted in. Even I (a lousy shot) can do better than that! They might also have added that, in this country, an AK-47 costs less than half as much as an M-16. (In some countries, AKs are as cheap as $100.)
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Heckler and Koch, manufacturers of top quality sidearms for military and police forces, put their brand on this collaboration from knifemaker and designer Mike Snody and the Benchmade Knife Company of Clackamas, Oregon. Beginning with Bali-song knives in 1990, Benchmade expanded into the tactical knife realm with a high tech and high detail approach. Current facilities base production on machines capable of 0.0005-inch tolerances. Matching Heckler and Koch firearms to a knife is no small feat, but the Snody Tanto holds true to the same look and quality as the popular H&K weapons. Opening smoothly with thumb studs set for either right or left ...
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Mthokozisi Jali, 34, of Durban, was pleading guilty to Main's murder, breaking into his house and aggravated robbery and possession of an AK-47 assault rifle.Cramond farmer Andrew Main, 53, could have been overpowered and robbed instead of being shot dead on sight, a member of the gang that killed him admitted in the Pietermaritzburg High Court. Main was shot dead as soon as he got out of his vehicle at his home last September. Jali is the second of his gang to plead to crimes relating to the incident. On August 26, Mxolisi Gcabashe pleaded guilty to possession of the murder weapon, the AK-47, ...
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