Actual urban combat generally happens at shorter ranges than 100 yards.
True, But lets be honest, the likelihood of someone actually using one of these rifles in an urban setting is pretty small.
The reality is as follows:
1) guys go out an buy cool looking gun.
2) Take to range and play with it.
3) Find out it really is not all that fun, ergonomic or accurate in 1 to 3 range sessions.
4) Back it goes out in the rack and is only taken out when someone wants to shoot cool looking gun or every 5 years when you forget why it never comes out of the rack.
Now if ever the time should come when you actually need to use a rifle,
Do you take the one you never really mastered?
or
the one you have mastered and have confidence in?
Of course it is all silly, as 99.9998 % of us will never have to use a personally owned rifle in self-defense. The only time that comes to mind in the last 30 years was the Rodney king riots, and in those the most use was waving it to scare off predators in search of easy prey, if any of the Korean Grocers had actually shot anyone at distance they would have been arrested. I guess in that mode the scariest looking rifle would be the best.
[AK-47 may look cool, but they really are not that accurate compared to the M16 series of weapons.
Actual urban combat generally happens at shorter ranges than 100 yards.]
I remember reading our guys in Iraq were using AK’s to ‘rake’ the outside of their tanks when a jihadi attempted to jump on them.
My Bulgarian AK 74 is accurate right out of the box up to 200 metres. But up here in N GA rural areas you are lucky to get a 50 yard clear field of fire.