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.
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.) Read Full Story
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... Read Full Story
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... Read Full Story
The HK CAWS was Heckler & Koch's initial entry into the United States military's elite Close Assault Weapon System program. The HK CAWS was a prototype shotgun initially co-created and co-produced by Heckler & Koch and Winchester/Olin during and the throughout the 1980s. The shotgun is a 12-gauge, 10-round, bull-pup shotgun with three ambidextrous firing modes: safe, full-auto, and semi-auto. History The HK CAWS or Close Assault Weapon System - program first began in the early 1980s... Read Full Story
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