The “Horror” of The American Made AK

So American Companies are starting to make AK pattern rifles and shotguns because import laws have been a pain, and now snactions against Russia have further complicated this.

And the antis are as usual, filling their pants:

The iconic Kalashnikov rifle of America’s enemy form more than half a centtury — from Vietnam to Afghanistan — will now be made right here in the U.S.A.

An American gun company has found a way to deal with the dearth of new AK-47s on the market since U.S. imposed sanctions on Russia went into effect in July: make them in Pennsylvania.

Get that, Global Communism, and Muslim Extremists aren’t our enemy! It’s the AK-47! I’m sure the author of this article would be very happy to learn that the FN FAL, the proverbial “Right arm of the Free World” has been made in the US since the early 90s!. If those newly minted AKs get uppity, the Freedom-loving DS Arms SA58 FALs will take care of them!

Also for people more into AKs than me, haven’t people been building AKs in America for years now? I’ve been seeing dealer fliers advertising 100% US Made AKs for years now. Of course this fool doesn’t understand that like the FAL, or really any other standard pattern firearm that no longer holds a patent have been made EVERYWHERE for decades now. I had an AK for a little while, and that gun was Romanian. We of course can’t import Chinese made ones, but the new sanctions against Russia hasn’t stopped the import of Polish, Bulgarian, and other non-russian AKs. And again, we’ve always been able to make them here.

“We are not permitted to pick up the phone and to talk to [Kalashnikov Concern],” Mr. McCrossin told CNN Tuesday. “In the second quarter of this year we are going to start manufacturing here in the U.S. What I’m manufacturing are our own AK-47s and shotguns under the Kalashnikov brand,” he added.

Ahhh, I get it now, why this story is getting so much traction. It’s not that Americans are making AKs for civilian sales, it’s that we will again see “Kalashnikov” Branded rifles on the US market, this time with “Tullytown, PA” Stamped on the receiver, not “IZHMASH, Russia”.

Still that article looks positively rational compared to this drek!

You may find yourself looking out over this vast and abundant land of ours and yet still finding a country with unmet material needs. More potable water in the Southwest. More sunlight in the Northwest. More high speed rail, everywhere.

But the one exigency that clearly dwarfs the others, in our society of unfailingly polite strangers, incurious children and pharmacologically-based anger management, is self-evident: the lack of available AK-47s.

Fear not, for even with the threat of a falling inventory of Kalashnikovs—due to sanctions against manufacturer—Mother Russia, this little kink in the supply chain has been solved.

We’re gonna make them here.

Again, we’ve already BEEN making them here, just not under this particular RUSSIAN brand name.

This is yet more proof—as if we needed it—that even as states like Washington pass ballot initiatives instituting universal background checks, in the Washington on the Potomac, nothing’s changed. In that Washington, the military wing of one of our two major political parties—the grand old one—is still only too happy to bestow upon those wishing to bring domestic harm the ability to do it, with one of the most efficient killing machines ever created.

Get that? The AK is the “most efficient killing machines ever created”, odd that the rifles being made are semi-auto only. Are the full-auto military rifles less “efficient”? Further why do I keep reading stories of people debating retiring the A-10 Warthog? Wouldn’t we be best served by simply giving all soldiers and airmen Century Sporters? Hell we’d have world peace in a fortnight with that kind of “efficiency”!

Further federal law mandates that for any of these guns to get into civilian hands there will need to be a background check. Funny how anti-gunners don’t seem to understand the very gun laws they prattle on about!

Even Mikhail Kalashnikov himself, on his deathbed a year ago at the age of 94, expressed “spiritual pain” that was “unbearable,” because of the weapon he had created. But then again, unlike today’s Republican Party, he didn’t rely on campaign contributions from the National Rifle Association.

Now I don’t want to malign Mikhail Kalashnikov too much, but he was a loyal Soviet. Sure he probably could have escaped to the west, but at the same time he was a rich man living VERY comfortably in a land where abject poverty was ubiquitous. Further his service to the Soviets aligned him with massive amounts of death, destruction, starvation, poverty, and war. When you look at it that way, the damage done by rifle bullets alone seems like a drop in the bucket. Also the dude was a Communist, why should I care what he allegedly thinks about one thing or the other?

Back here in the good ol’ US of A, it has become pretty clear to anyone who’s paying attention, why we should ensure that as few people as possible get their hands on weapons such as these. Twice in the past week and a half, armed gangs referring to themselves in innocuous terms such as “open carry enthusiasts” showed up to state capitols—in Texas and the aforementioned Washington State—to try and intimidate lawmakers into supporting even more permissive gun bills. There is a name for using physical threats to get the legislation you want. It isn’t democracy.

Can you please put on this Dunce cap now? It isn’t “democracy” because we don’t live in a Democratic country! We’re a Constitutional Republic! Democracy is Mob rule and I’ll be DAMNED if I lived under a one!

Second, can you point to the deaths and injuries caused by these so-called “Armed Gangs”? Yeah…

Further the very government these citizens were petitioning have armed guards will full-auto weapons, tanks, grenade launchers, air support, snipers, and SWAT teams. Your concern is misplaced at best, and most likely is simple political hackery!

Then they can shoot more people, and perversely, gun sales go up. As it was put by Dr. Boyce Watkins, in the new documentary, Gunland, “weapons manufacturers tend to do really well when people are killing each other.” If you’re bold enough, you might actually call it a key part of their business plan.

Funny how sales have been through the roof on guns in the last several years, yet violent crime is DOWN! It’s almost like his “expert” on guns is full of shit!

No, we don’t need more AK-47s, believe it or not. We don’t need them domestically produced. And we sure as hell don’t need them available, without background checks, to any criminal, domestic abuser, terrorist, drug-runner or person suffering from delusions—which covers a bunch of the current executive leadership of the National Rifle Association—in just over 30 states in this country.

Again, federal law dictates that all manufacturers of firearms must only sell their product to Federal Firearms License holders. Those FFLs can only sell to other FFLs or private citizens who undergo all the paperwork and background checks. Sure criminals elements can sell to whoever they want, but they care as little about federal or local laws as they do about drug laws.

Also I always like to defer my decisions on what I need to the most ignorant and politically self-serving person in the room!

Sorry bub, but I’m glad we’re making more rifles in this country, and I’m REALLY glad that pisses you off!

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4 Responses to The “Horror” of The American Made AK

  1. C. S. P. Schofield says:

    I swear, every time one of these Liberal Intellectual, One Each (™) types opens his yap about guns, I get a mental picture of a six year old wailing and drumming his heels on the ground because the grown ups won’t do as he says.

    • Archer says:

      Quick question on the “Liberal Intellectual, One Each (™)” term:

      Is that “One [Gun] Each [Person]”, or “Liberal, Intellectual: Pick One”? 😉

      (Also, I get the same mental picture, but you’re much nicer about it: I picture a four year old.)

  2. Great Wall of Texas says:

    I checked out the links

    Mother Jones, Time, Houston Press, New York Daily News…

    Talk about preaching to the choir in a echo chamber while performing a circle jerk.

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