Originally Posted by
HansTheHobbit
No, I call it a magazine because that's the correct term. Look, I don't know where this idea came from that an AR isn't a DI gun, but it's wrong. If an AR isn't DI, then DI doesn't exist. And just because the bolt has gas rings doesn't make it a piston. The movement of the bolt is caused by the carrier, and then by direct blowback after it is unlocked. At no time does the bolt act as a piston. Again, a piston is a moving part, it's movement is directly caused by an expansion of gas, and it does work on other moving parts.
With the Hakim, you could argue that in some strangely philosophical way it's a piston gun. The gas key is functionally a very short long stroke piston. But anyone with a lick of common sense can see that it's really just part of the carrier, so it's a DI gun because there's nothing substantial that moves between the carrier and where the gas comes from.
Again, the definition of DI is any gun in which the gas is piped directly to the carrier without a piston in between. You can get all philosophical about what constitutes a piston if you want, but you can't get away from the definition of DI. Just out of morbid curiosity, what is your definition of DI???
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