Please ask me anything you want about firearms. I work as a firearms engineer, and would be happy to answer questions, I also invite other people to answer questions.
Please ask me anything you want about firearms. I work as a firearms engineer, and would be happy to answer questions, I also invite other people to answer questions.
I’m completely in love with the aesthetic of the prototype AK-12. The AK-12 that’s in production is a flawed rifle, but I’d love to get my hands on one.
I wasn’t aware of the QBZ-191 until now, I don’t follow China’s arms developments closely at all. But looking at it, I want. It looks to me like they’ve leaned into a more western design - not happy about that - but they finally seem to be moving past the bullpup fad. For that, I’m excited, bullpups suck. OBZ-91 is one of extremely few bullpups I don’t entirely hate, and would probably be the only one I’d own - if they were on the American market. (though the internals of the -91 are pretty close to the AK platform, so technically you could just print or mould a shell to go around an AK, which I might do when I eventually get a 3D printer)
I reallly want to try the new AKs too. Sad that it could be years until we get to try them. Looks like Vietnam has adopted a new galil-based design as their primary service rifle, the STV-380 . Sucks that even those these are service rifles with thousands produced that we won’t get to try them until potentially decades later.
the assault weapons ban was really fucking stupid. but, it’s clearly just so American firearms companies can remain dominate in the American market, instead of mass-importers of the time, like the EX-SR states and China. I really wish the ban would be lifted, if only so our firearms market will get new pews.
I’d love to get my hands on the AK-100 series, those look neat.