Keep in mind that when we were taken off the gold standard in1971, the price of gold was $35. Now it's around $1,800. Is it that gold now buys you 50x as many goods and services as compared to 1971? No, it's that the US dollar buys you 50x fewer goods and services. The price of gold goes up and...
Precious metals are not something to buy if you're looking to flip something for a profit in a day, a week, a month, or likely even a year. They're bought for the long-haul. They're real money unlike the fiat currencies most people save their wealth in; think of precious metals as savings rather...
What makes it superior? Reliability? An AR15 can go thousands of rounds without cleaning and still be reliable. It also outperforms many external-piston guns, like the AK, in mud tests. The AR15 has less recoil and lower muzzle rise in rapid or fully-automatic fire when compared to external...
"Like I said, you have no experience with a AK or piston rifles, long posts do not make up for it."
I do have experience with AK pattern rifles. I used to own one. Also, you having shot the rifles doesn't mean you know anything about them. I'm not saying you don't, but owning something doesn't...
"RPK barrel is .7 inch just past the gas block. AKM barrel is .58". Some difference, yes. But not a whole lot." That is a big difference, especially when you consider there's a roughly 30 caliber hole in the middle of that. That AKM barrel of .58 with a roughly .3 hole drilled through it only...
And those aren't the AR18. The AR18 wasn't designed as an improvement upon the AR15; it was always the less expensive alternative made because they sold the rights to make the real deal AR15.
Also, there were plenty of nations that made their own designs which were twists of already existing...
The AR-18 was designed to be a less-expensive alternative to the AR15 for poorer countries. Also, Armalite designed this after they had already sold the patent of the AR15 to Colt. In short, it wasn't designed as an improvement upon the AR15 design.
Edit: Also, it was specifically designed to...
The AK wasn't designed or intended to be the best possible service rifle. It was designed to be a decent service rifle that was simple to use and easy to mass-manufacture for the USSR, a still-industrializing nation that did not have the latest and greatest machining and manufacturing...
Having a thicker barrel, IE being built to withstand the stress of sustained fully-automatic fire, is the main functional difference between a light-machine gun and an assault rifle.
Both are fully automatic rifles. The assault rifle is a service rifle which is the cross between a sub machine...
The AKM isn't designed for sustained full-auto fire either. If you want that out of a Kalashnikov design then you're probably looking for an RPK. If you want to suggest that after dumping 300 rounds non stop magazine after magazine the AK has an advantage over the AR of not cooking off rounds...
That's actually a really good point to bring up. Every DI gun, on the most technical level, utilizes a piston in some capacity. Even if it's just where the gas tube interfaces with the carrier, that's still technically a piston. So what then separates a DI gun from a gas-piston gun? There are a...
Interesting video. It just goes to show that assault rifles and light-machine guns are two different firearms intended for two different purposes. Assault rifles are not designed for sustained fully-automatic fire, and this cooking-off of rounds after 9 magazines proves it. SOCOM ran into...