[wrench]

"Lt.-Col. Shirin Shah Kowbandi said the army's old Soviet-era AK-47s frequently misfire."

No way! All the poodle-shooter foes claim the AK can be thrown into a mud hole, run over by a tank, and still fire flawlessly.

[Clive]

Maybe his troops like to hear the damn things go rat-a-tat-tat and forget to take the finger off the trigger.

Especially if they are Warsaw Pact surplus weapons.

[GAB-1955]

It seems to me that after years of poor maintenance or no maintenance, even an AK-47 will misfire.