AK-47: Iconic weapon

BBC Online (UK) ^ | 12/05/2005 | Staff

[OldPossum]

NINE parts? Who proofreads this stuff for the BBC?

I would guess it's someone within the BBC; therein lies the problem.

[Thunder90]

Most of the weapon's downfalls have been taken out with the AK-100/103 and AK-74M series.

[-=[_Super_Secret_Agent_]=-]

[Blue State Insurgent]

He probably heard 'nine moving parts' and got confused.

[Plutarch]

Iconic weapon

Must be iconic, if it can be used as sculpture. Most symbolic of rifles.

[mylife]

How do you get one of those Valmets?

[Plutarch]

...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?

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Nicknames for the IRA.

[mylife]

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 ;)

[tet68]

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.

[Chode]

and what "downfalls" were there???

[StarCMC]

LOL -- me too -- but less skeered of that than I would be of an intruder! Course I'd be deaf for a few days.

[mylife]

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

[StarCMC]

Well......there IS that! LOL

[joesnuffy]

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

[killjoy]

I'll take one of these over an AK anyday.

[VOA]

bump

[Chode]

i just love that lil .308!!! 8^) if the doesn't hit-em the muzzle blast will get-em...

[BCR #226]

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

[blackbird149]

I thought you were bull

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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!