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AK-47: Iconic weapon
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| 12/05/2005
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Posted on 12/05/2005 12:25:15 PM PST by 1066AD
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To: 04-Bravo
NINE parts? Who proofreads this stuff for the BBC?I would guess it's someone within the BBC; therein lies the problem.
To: 1066AD
Most of the weapon's downfalls have been taken out with the AK-100/103 and AK-74M series.
To: All
To: 04-Bravo
He probably heard 'nine moving parts' and got confused.
64
posted on
12/05/2005 5:05:39 PM PST
by
Blue State Insurgent
(Shatter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter the remnants to the wind. Avenge JFK.)
To: 1066AD
Iconic weapon Must be iconic, if it can be used as sculpture. Most symbolic of rifles.
65
posted on
12/05/2005 5:16:05 PM PST
by
Plutarch
To: Pyro7480
66
posted on
12/05/2005 5:18:04 PM PST
by
mylife
(The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: Irish_Thatcherite
...Hibernofascists...so they call the gun 'AK-47' when the Provos use it, and 'Kalashnikov' when the Muzzies use it!! Geez, I feel so parochial.
Who are the Hibernofascists and the Provos?
67
posted on
12/05/2005 5:20:01 PM PST
by
Plutarch
To: Plutarch
68
posted on
12/05/2005 5:22:24 PM PST
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(~~~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~~~)
To: StarCMC
The AK-47 is a GREAT weapon. Don't break into my house or you might be looking at the business end. *G* L0L Im skeered to lite mine off in the house ;)
69
posted on
12/05/2005 5:37:28 PM PST
by
mylife
(The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: Plutarch
Who are the Hibernofascists and the Provos?
I think the Provos play for some city in Utah.
Please be quiet, you might wake the sleeping Nazis.
70
posted on
12/05/2005 5:39:40 PM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Thunder90
and what "downfalls" were there???
71
posted on
12/05/2005 7:14:40 PM PST
by
Chode
(American Hedonist ©®)
To: mylife
LOL -- me too -- but less skeered of that than I would be of an intruder! Course I'd be deaf for a few days.
72
posted on
12/05/2005 7:37:22 PM PST
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
To: StarCMC
less skeered of that than I would be of an intruder! Course I'd be deaf for a few days. I wasnt worried about my ears so much as I was worried about the .308 bullet overpenetrating and hitting the neighbor or some passer by L0L
73
posted on
12/05/2005 7:40:23 PM PST
by
mylife
(The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: mylife
Well......there IS that! LOL
74
posted on
12/05/2005 7:43:35 PM PST
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
To: GOP_Party_Animal
AR= Armalite (the early version not the current one) the company that is credited with starting up
the AR family of weapons (probably more likely Cadilac-Gage should get the credit?)
Some folks probably say it might also stand for Assault Rifle
but I say AR stands for Armalite
75
posted on
12/05/2005 8:18:49 PM PST
by
joesnuffy
(A camel once bit my sister-we knew just what to do- gather large rocks & squash her-Mullet Ho'mar)
To: 1066AD
I'll take one of these over an AK anyday.
76
posted on
12/05/2005 8:23:12 PM PST
by
killjoy
(Real Men Love Bush)
To: 1066AD
77
posted on
12/05/2005 8:25:58 PM PST
by
VOA
To: killjoy
i just love that lil .308!!! 8^) if the doesn't hit-em the muzzle blast will get-em...
78
posted on
12/05/2005 8:44:06 PM PST
by
Chode
(American Hedonist ©®)
To: GSlob
Then that is misleading and still inaccurate. If that is the case, we can say that the M16 is made from a receiver, bolt, carrier and magazine... you and I both know that there are a lot more parts in that example as well.
Mike
79
posted on
12/06/2005 5:00:35 AM PST
by
BCR #226
To: Gordongekko909
I thought you were bull
when you posted that flag of Mozambique, I thought it must be a doctored image, but I checked and it really is true! how insane! Now I shall have to fix up my own country's flag (Northern Ireland) so it displays a lump of semtex!
80
posted on
12/06/2005 5:08:28 AM PST
by
blackbird149
(NO SURRENDER!)
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