A Friend Told Me He Never Enters Into His Own Mind Without An Ak-47 What Does This Mean

Why does the US military not use AK series rifles?

There are three primary reasons why the US Military does not use AK-series rifles.You do not, as a general rule, adopt a weapon system designed by and primarily manufactured by your chief geopolitical rival and most likely near-peer military competitor. The U.S. prefers its own indigenous design, which is less vulnerable to things like “having sales cut off abruptly”, or “foreign policy decision causes plant to suffer layoffs and production quotas not met.”The AK series of rifles are designed for Soviet/Russian, not U.S. military needs. As a fundamental design philosophy, the Kalashnikov is designed to be maintained and operated by untrained conscripts, with a maximum emphasis on reliability. In contrast, the U.S. military was transitioning to an all-volunteer service as the M16 was being introduced, and places a much higher emphasis on training, marksmanship, and weapons maintenance that mitigates the downsides of the M16 and enhances the upsides. As such, we generally can “outshoot” the AK series, meaning the shooter will be held back by the rifle’s lack of capability. This is less problematic for the M16 series.Very few of our NATO allies and partners use the AK series, thus we would not have ammunition or parts commonality with them.There are other reasons — 7.62x39 isn’t all that great of a round, and by the time 5.45x39 rounds came about, we were already locked into the M16 series and the performance difference to 5.56 NATO was pretty meaningless. The typical AK-pattern carried load is significantly heavier than the carried load for an M16 or M4 user, for roughly similar capabilities. That’s not such a problem for a mostly mechanized ex-Soviet military, or for defensive/static security purposes; it’s a much bigger deal for a military like the U.S. with such a focus on light infantry operations. The ergonomics are worse on an AK. The sighting system is worse on an AK. Neither system is particularly modular “out of the box”, but without bulky rail systems added on the M16 series is still superior in terms of attachment modularity and compatibility. Once rails are thrown into the equation, the M16/M4/AR-type platform still wins out.I mean, you can go on and on and on, but when it comes down to it they’re just not good enough for what we need them to do. AKs are great rifles for certain needs. Unfortunately for *our* needs the M16 and M4 series are better.

What does it feel like to be shot?

It depends a) where you’re shot, b) what you’ve been shot with, and c) how you’ve been shot.I drove cab for over 25 years, and was once shot in the abdomen with a .45 snub-nose revolver. I was stabbed in various places a number of times with different implements, too, but that’s another story.It was like being punched in the gut by a huge motherfucker and having the wind knocked out of you for a solid month. There was something purplish hanging out of my belly, which turned out to be part of my liver. The bullet was a hollowpoint and had done a lot of damage- just about blew my liver out.The pain was excruciating and unbelievable. I just wanted to die and get it over with. I was told later that I was very lucky, because the bottom of my liver had been blown out but would grow back. A few inches higher, the doctors told me, and that would have been it.To make matters worse, after getting several doses of morphine, it was discovered that I was allergic. It wasn’t killing the pain, and it was giving me a red rash, making me itch all over. Whee.The doctor switched me to Demerol, and that’s about the last thing I remember from that night.The following months were a Demerol-induced haze in which people came to visit me in hospital, but I was too out of it to remember. I was hooked up to an automatic painkiller gizmo that allowed me to self-medicate up to a point.When the pain started subsiding, my belly where I’d been shot started to cramp, which led to more excruciating pain. I had a belly full of staples where I’d been opened up in order to retrieve pieces of bullet. My stomach felt really strange, and the reason turned out to be that the doctors had cut my stomach in half to get it out of the way when they were doing surgery on my liver. My gall bladder was gone, and my pancreas was a mess, resulting in diabetes.Bottom line? Don’t try this at home, kids.

Can a deputy legally stop me from bump firing my AK-47 on my property?

Funny story: I installed a bump-fire stock on my WASR-10/63 Romanian AKM (AK-47). I was at a friend’s house and we were putting it through it’s paces. One of my friend’s neighbors is an anti-gun nut that calls the police anytime he shoots on his land. They always lie and say that he’s shooting toward their house. Of course this time they added that we had a “machine gun.” Even though the sheriff’s office knows that these neighbors are troublemakers, they are obligated to respond. The deputy rolls up the driveway and walks into the backyard where we are shooting. As soon as we saw him coming, we unloaded the rifles and laid them on a table. The deputy knows my friend and said that what we are doing is legal, he’s not going to stop us, but had to come check us out. He saw our rifles laid out and said, “Ooh, is that an AK with a bump stock?!?” I responded, “Why yes, it is!” I could tell he wanted to shoot it, so I handed him a full 40-round magazine and said, “Go ahead!” He emptied that magazine with the biggest grin on his face! He was elated as he left and said that he would tell the neighbors to mind their own business.