Chucktshoes

Two things. First, figure out your budget. What are you willing to spend? Second, how much use is it likely to get? Are you just wanting an AK to shoot and play with? To run hard? An investment piece? Figure out the answers to these questions and you’ll get pointed in the right direction.

I would agree with Fujimo. If you *think* you might have interest in the platform, I wouldn’t hesitate. The days of the $300-400 AK are gone and never coming back. Prices on imports are pretty much only going in one direction. The biggest thing is ammo. I’ve never heard of sanctions on guns & ammo being lifted. So the prices of ammo aren’t likely to get any better as the Russian imports were the primary pressure keeping ammo prices as low as they were. As those imports dry up, the prices will move up. I could be entirely wrong, but pretty much everyone I know in this space is of the same opinion.

Cheap imports of aks mass produced decades ago by communist governments have been pretty much shut off. Now you are in a place where aks are made mostly by commercial producers. What most people don’t know is that the AK is actually not a cheap gun to produce. It takes quite a bit of tooling and machining to make.

My lgs has had several come through the door. They feel really, really good in the hand.

I would actually disagree with your assessment of uncle Ted being crazy. I think the more accurate term is prescient.

I figured you would focus on this portion of the post and miss the entire rest of what I wrote. The main thrust of my point is that the policies and procedures that dictate the type of training and equipment the officers receive makes the general population and the officers less safe. A perfect example of this in practice is the use of no knocks in the war on drugs. It is explicitly clear to me and many others that the use of those type of entries has increased the danger to police and the targets of the warrants. This is why you are seeing an increasing number of agencies and municipalities decide that they are not suitable for use with out a direct pre-existing threat to human life. The public absolutely has the right to determine the type of policing they will receive. The downstream consequences of that may be positive, or like Minneapolis may be negative. If negative it is then up to the public to facilitate change course again so that things improve for all parties. To deny that the public has a voice in how police operate is pure insanity to me. If the public doesn’t have a voice in how police operate, then you are saying that the police do not work for the public. If that’s the case, then who do they work for?

This decision, while addressing some abuses that were absolutely prevalent in the system, has had downstream effects that are completely and disgustingly tragic. The solution should have been to reform the system, not dismantle it. Placing the responsibility for dealing with folks that are mentally unfit to operate within society in the hands of the police is truly a criminal state of affairs.

I will always call BS on this type of response. The question is simple, do you think the public has a right to determine how they want to be policed? If you believe the purpose of police is to enforce the laws set by the elite who control the government then the answer would be no. If you believe that the purpose of police is to act in the public good and for the benefit of the public, then the answer would be yes. While the rank and file officer on the street has some level of discretion within how they act, they do not set departmental policy and procedure. That is a political equation. The pressures on those who make those rules to change are made by the public. So to anyone who agrees or disagrees with the actions taken here, the answer isn’t to go sign up to do the job yourself, especially for people like myself who I know are il-suited to do the job. The answer is to high pressure to those who set policy and do the training for those officers. That includes those with the checkbooks who can fund better training.

If’n you want an M-14, there is no better one on the market than a Fulton Armory. It also has the arguably the best optics mount available for the platform. GLWS, she’s a beautiful specimen.

I’ll take them. PM inbound.

I love how the reports have gotten walked back because reporters got ahead of themselves and reported a story without confirmation.

I think the SCR is pretty cool. I wouldn’t mind having one at all. I really want one of their belt fed uppers.

That is correct. The issue at hand though is that the Tennessee state constitution is more restrictive on that front.

I get it. I’m sick of having to mark them as spammers too. What I’m not sick of is the time you and others put in to alert us to these assholes so that we can take care of them. Thank you. Seriously. We couldn’t get them so quickly without y’all doing your part. It’s much appreciated.

This is excellent news. I think the old thread got nuked with the rest of /pol/.

Spammer nuked.

I mean, I’ve got one. Don’t use it much. What little radio traffic there is generally amounts to folks hopping on when there’s a backup and cussing at each other or the same person asking what’s going on a million times. I really don’t know of any truckers using ham radios in the cab. The reality is that folks are using alerts from Waze and Google maps to figure out traffic snarls. Nobody talks on the CB anymore because we are now on the phone using a Bluetooth headset with friends all over the country instead of the drivers in a 2 mile radius.

To fit the Holosun you have to remove the rear recoil lugs and reduce the height of the front lugs.

Ian from Forgotten weapons has a very successful YouTube channel built on that very subject so I don’t think you’re all alone there.

Making a regulatory decision based on political considerations? Why, that’s a shocking assertion. I would never suggest that sort of thing. /s

Interesting timing.

There a Russian Deathcore band that are just really damn awesome. And yes, I would say darker than slipknot. On the other hand, slipknot sneaks in a whole lot of heavy death metal and hard-core elements into the music that people don’t really notice. They’re sneaky like that.

Threads merged.

Nope. It’s a Lie-Power.