VERY TRUE. = I attended an “AK building party” in 1995 in VA where over 200 “AK clones” of various sorts were built from flats & assorted parts.
(SOME builders serial-numbered their creation & some did NOT, as VA law doesn’t require serial numbers on “homemade firearms”. - I serial numbered my “AK clone” & registered it at our PMO, as a non-serial numbered firearm is ILLEGAL to possess on US military posts.)
Mine started out as a parts kit for a Hungarian “paratrooper” AK carbine with a “demilled” 14” barrel.
(We cut what was left of the the barrel into two pieces with a torch, as it was illegal to assemble into a rifle & installed a NEW barrel on the receiver. - Frankly I see NO good use for an AK “pistol”. = Just too big/clunky for my taste.)
ONE good thing about a “built it myself forearm” is that you can get exactly the firearm that you want. = “my sort of an AK” has a LONGER butt-stock than is standard on any real AK.
Yours, TMN78247
Sounds like the AMD-65 kit. A shame about the barrel. I think they’re legal if you weld on an extension. Did it have that ugly folding crutch stock, too? Not the prettiest AK variant.