AK-47 Copied from M-1 Garand? - Page 4

rockit · 03-13-2010, 02:37 PM

Some rifles were revolutionary in their design but most are refinements of and adaptations of existing designs. I would guess that being responsible for a weapons design in Stalinist Russia would not be a time or place to stray too far from known reliability and function. Mikhail Kalashnikov had to make one man happy and he evidently did that very well.
I like my Kalashnikov too. Doesn't make any difference to me what it was copied from as long as it keeps on working like it always has, which is every time I pull the trigger. Everyone should be lucky enough to get to use a variety of weapons so they can appreciate the ones that have the most rights and the least wrongs. Of course the ones that achieve that is open to interpretation.

03-13-2010, 02:37 PM	#46
rockit Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 367	Some rifles were revolutionary in their design but most are refinements of and adaptations of existing designs. I would guess that being responsible for a weapons design in Stalinist Russia would not be a time or place to stray too far from known reliability and function. Mikhail Kalashnikov had to make one man happy and he evidently did that very well. I like my Kalashnikov too. Doesn't make any difference to me what it was copied from as long as it keeps on working like it always has, which is every time I pull the trigger. Everyone should be lucky enough to get to use a variety of weapons so they can appreciate the ones that have the most rights and the least wrongs. Of course the ones that achieve that is open to interpretation.