In general, however, a true AK has a fully automatic setting, which is illegal in the United States. Models with semi-automatic settings are available and legal in the U. Manufacturers cannot make or import fully automatic weapons for the civilian market. Any automatic weapon fully registered before May , with the passage of the Firearm Owners Protection Act, can be purchased or sold. This means there is a market of an estimated , legal automatic weapons in the United States.
The AK is the deadliest weapon ever built, on the whole. Its kill count even tops nuclear weapons in sheer numbers. But the first AKs were very heavy and weren't really built for aiming. Kalashnikov wanted to develop a compact weapon that still delivered firepower within meters that could bring a blaze of bullets with ammunition light enough that soldiers could carry a lot of it. A real Kalashnikov is surprisingly difficult to fire for a standard infantry weapon, but it was still very easily produced and easily used.
Everyone will still refer to it as an AK or simply "AK" -- because it sounds cool. The weapon uses a 7. They shatter bones, tear through organs and liquefy other materials as the round tumbles through the body -- often in ways that cannot be repaired.
When the M16 rifle was first introduced in the Vietnam War, it had a number of issues. There were so many problems that American troops were killed in combat simply because they couldn't shoot back.
Even after the kinks were worked out, a dirty M16 was and is much less likely to operate than a dirty AK Over the course of his long life, Kalashnikov continued to tweak his classic design. He also developed the cartridge-fed PK machine gun. Modified AKs are still in production in countries around the world. Why was the AK such a revolutionary rifle? It is relatively inexpensive to produce, short and light to carry, and easy to use, with little recoil.
It also boasts legendary reliability under harsh conditions ranging from waterlogged jungles to Middle Eastern sandstorms, in both extreme cold and heat. It also requires relatively little maintenance. This stems from its large gas piston and wide clearances between moving parts, which help to prevent it from jamming. And I hear American soldiers in Iraq use it quite often. The genius in the design of the Kalashnikov rifle is in the simplification of those contributing designs and adaptation to mass production.
The AK can be seen as a fusion of the best that the M1 Garand offered combined with the best aspects of the StG44 made by the best processes available in the Soviet Union at the time. Kalashnikov used clearances between parts that were much larger than clearances used in standard gun smithing practice, contributing to the non-jamming characteristics of the AK This reference article is mainly selected from the English Wikipedia with only minor checks and changes see www. See also our Disclaimer.
A Type 2 AK, the first machined receiver variation. Original stamped receiver for AK The stock has a different, rubber shoulder pad that is serrated for increased traction. There are weight-reducing lightening cuts on each side of the buttstock. The AK gas tube has a spring washer attached to its rear end designed to retain the gas tube more securely.
The lower handguard is fitted with a leaf spring that reduces play in the rifle's lateral axis by keeping the wood tensioned between the receiver and the handguard retainer. All external metal surfaces are coated with a glossy black enamel. The 5. The barrel length of the AK is mm The AK barrel has a chrome-lined bore and 4 right-hand grooves at a mm in rifling twist rate. The front sight base and gas block were redesigned. The forward section of the front sight base features a threaded collar that is used to screw in a newly-designed multifunction muzzle device performing the role of a muzzle brake, recoil compensator and flash suppressor or a blank-firing adaptor.
The distinctive muzzle brake features a large expansion chamber, two symmetrical vertical cuts at the forward end of the brake and three vent holes positioned to prevent muzzle climb and lateral shift to the right for right-handed shooters. Magazines for both rifles are similar except for the minor changes in dimensions to accommodate different size cartridges. AK magazines are polymer, and have a raised horizontal rib on each side of the rear lug to prevent their use in a 7.
Accessories for these rifles, as well as the Airsoft versions, can be purchased on Amazon or other gunshot accessories retailers. As both the AK and the AK were designed by the Soviet Union, they were never controlled by copyright law or patents. This enabled any country or manufacturer to produce versions of the assault rifles some better than others.
Between this fact and the nature of the assault rifles' design—that they were easy to manufacture and use, reliable, and inexpensive to replace—the AK and the AK are ubiquitous in many nations around the world.
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