I see...

The Soviets realized as soon as they gave everyone a carbine that they lost an important "Reach out and Touch Some A-hole" capacity that intermediate rounds just lack.

I mean I've been to some backwater companies during my service, but the most use I've seen AKMs have is during oath swearing

Pretty sure everything remotely related to combat uses newer models

Hell, even as comms, we had 74s

Yeah, like I said, the Soviet MOs were far outside what Western militaries did.

Still are
At least here in the big country

I am doubtful that any "Regular Army" member (draft or pro) has handled an AK-47 to AK-49/2 in decades.

49/2s were still handled in 1998 in some conscript companies

But back then you could drive a tank corps from Helsinki to St. Pete's without much opposition

I would have thought those were AKMs, but I am not russian so i will take your word

Wait, may have been AKMs

Will have to double-check

Milled or Stamped receivers

Stamped if I'm not completely crazy

stamped were the AKMs

Yeah, my bad

ak receiver is a piece of thick sheet metal, folded and drilled
or, if mass-produced, stamped

what does everyone think of bumpstocks?

pretty remarkable what some nutjob can do with a bumpstock, really

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mXe9dk77bk&t=30

Hello, gents

How's it going?

just fantastic - and you?

Not bad. Just got done eating lunch

Listening to music now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFeHyWxuPcI

excellent track

https://thinkprogress.org/paypal-proud-boys-antifa-987d619f86b1/
`Members of the Proud Boys have been arrested for the violent attacks, but there’s no evidence of equivalent violence by Antifa organizations.`

That is Fake News right there

thinkprogress = propaganda
and they don't even pretend otherwise

... regarding the AK platform, and the age thereof
didn't we send some spooky folks over to china
to set up factories to churn those things out
for the conflict in afghanistan?

pretty sure I recall this guy bragging that we got the cost down to +- $7 each, no?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gust_Avrakotos

We (US) didnt set up factories, we secured production out of PRC factories

good idea

it's not as though communism has ever been a problem, amiright?

PRC abandoned Communism in all but name a while ago, they are still run by an elite party inner counsil.

well then
now I feel much better about the chinese military buildup
and our participation in it

They got it right by abandoning the economic model and keeping the ideology to run the masses

(or parts of the ideology, at least)

and leveraging US tech corps to build out the surveillance infrastructure, sure