AK-47s 'the ultimate guns' according to former US President

Blame the Nazi Germans for making me become a gun designer ... I always wanted to construct agriculture machinery.
-- Mikhail Kalashnikov

I am proud to have created a weapon that has become a symbol of resistance against tyranny.
-- Mikhail Kalashnikov

It’s funny that Kalashnikov and Glock, designers of the two most used guns in the world, originally designed mundane things. Kalash with farm equipment, and Glock with shower curtains
- Glock with shower curtains
  holy shit now that's a jump

Trump is a real gamer and knows AKs usually do more damage in games than their Western counterparts

Eugene Stoner of failing ArmaLite has a problem... his gas system is no longer "hot"

Red Dawn (1984) was about Russia invading.

Red Dawn (2012) was about

invading.

It's time for Red Dawn 3: Chavistas!

I loved learning about those guns. They're simultaneously put together by some eldritch instructions, but also invincible.

Also simple and cheap to make. They say logistics win wars, and the war in Ukraine shows that ignoring nukes, peer combat will be quite conventional.
- although drones are likely to be the 21st century's machine gun
Tolerances? Nahhhh
Sand? Don’t care
Water? Shake it off

Apparently there aren't many 47s left. I'm told most of the AKs in circulation are AKMs or 74s, or newer variants.

I don’t think 47s were ever issued or were quickly replaced with AKMs and 74s.
The AK47 is just a concept at this point. It's the slightly scarier "assault weapon".

Oh, this is gonna piss off the gun nuts

Most gun folks in this country do not recognize the superiority of gas pistons over direct impingement, but my friends overseas are saying that over the years of fighting in some of the worst conditions that it is really no contest, the gas piston is just better folks!
Outside of certain sects of Fudds I think the general gun nut consensus is that ARs and AKs have both been functionally perfected, and either is fine. Modern ARs can be beat to shit and keep cycling rounds, and modern AKs have much better accuracy than their cheap ancestors did.
- Let us plunge now into the new frontier
- Yeah. Even chuddier gun nuts respect the AK, in my experience.