The current AR landscape

[duece71]

I guess we're all just spitballing here, but if Biden wins, I've been thinking for some time the next big thing is the Left will start to go after ammo MUCH harder. If I was a Lefty and my overarching goal is reduce firearms ownership/usage in any way possible, rather than keep grinding away fighting gun laws in each state, I'd go after the ammo supply. What good is owning a firearm if 99.99% of the public don't reload and there's no ammo available? One fell swoop---EPA regs going after the environmental angle, executive order, ban military/LE caliber sales to the public, stuff like that. Don't get me wrong, all of that is unconstitutional, but that won't stop them and they've already used these mechanisms for other things.

People will keep buying guns. But the Left will increasingly go after the ammo supply.

Taxation. Can you imagine a world where there is a 1000% tax on any ammunition? It’s leftist nirvana.

[jpmuscle]

Taxation. Can you imagine a world where there is a 1000% tax on any ammunition? It’s leftist nirvana.

It wouldn’t change anything. The tree of Liberty is going to die of thirst before enough like minded folks coalesce together to actually do something about.


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[SteyrAUG]

Everybody had 16 years just saying

And I'm sorta amazed. I thought we might get a year...max. Ironically that's what I did with all my credit cards...maxed. Guns, mags....crap they released a new one...more guns. Everytime Colt rolled out a new 6720 whatever I almost had a seizure because I didn't have one yet. Eventually I just grabbed a 6945 to party with my 6933 and made peace with the fact that I won't be able to own one of everything they made.

Still need to get the 9mm SBR flat top whatever the hell number that one is.

[OH58D]

What is surprising is the amount of 7.62x39 and 5.45x39 still out there for sale. Everyone went hog wild on 5.56 and seemed to forget the AK weapons and calibers. Maybe most already have pile of that stuff in their gun pantry (like I do).

[Firefly]

What is surprising is the amount of 7.62x39 and 5.45x39 still out there for sale. Everyone went hog wild on 5.56 and seemed to forget the AK weapons and calibers. Maybe most already have pile of that stuff in their gun pantry (like I do).

I sorta want a PSA AK74. I’m not an AK guy and they are horribly obsolete but...

I went through a severe hipster phase where I had a Russian made Saiga AK-74 that was the closest thing one could possibly get to an AK-74M legally. I loved it. It was surprisingly accurate (not at all, in any way AR-15 accurate) but it was fun. It was perhaps the funnest non AR gun I ever owned.

And I foolishly traded it for something else when the 7n6 ban happened. I thought I would have an orphaned gun.

5.45 just feels different. Not by much. It’s an interesting round. Part of me wants to revisit it but I doubt I will

[Circle_10]

What is surprising is the amount of 7.62x39 and 5.45x39 still out there for sale. Everyone went hog wild on 5.56 and seemed to forget the AK weapons and calibers. Maybe most already have pile of that stuff in their gun pantry (like I do).

I’ve had to start shooting AKs more over the last couple months. I used to be a big time AK guy (see username) back when I was a doughy POS who bought tons of guns but hardly ever shot them. Years later when I actually started shooting regularly I became markedly less fond of them. I kept most of my AKs but they mostly just sat around ignored.
But now I’ve got no choice so I’m back to messing with these clunky sharp-edged upjumped submachine guns.

[duece71]

What is surprising is the amount of 7.62x39 and 5.45x39 still out there for sale. Everyone went hog wild on 5.56 and seemed to forget the AK weapons and calibers. Maybe most already have pile of that stuff in their gun pantry (like I do).

I just bought a wooden crate of that mildly corrosive Yugoslavian stuff, probably go back and get another. Why not? Other than being corrosive, I have heard it is decent AK/SKS ammo.

[Circle_10]

I just bought a wooden crate of that mildly corrosive Yugoslavian stuff, probably go back and get another. Why not? Other than being corrosive, I have heard it is decent AK/SKS ammo.

Yugo brass cased 7.62x39?
From what I recall Martin Fackler tested that stuff and it apparently exhibits slightly better wound ballistics than other 7.62x39 ball. Probably still very mediocre compared to a fragmenting or expanding projectile though but mediocrity is just the nature of FMJ 7.62x39.

[pag23]

I am tempted to go the AK route...but that means 1-2 guns, about 2-3k in rounds, 10 to 20 extra mags, etc....

[OH58D]

Bought my first AK weapons in the period after Urgent Fury in Grenada. Saw stacks of them there. Started buying the Clayco, Norinco and Polytech imports after that when they were still cheap. Still have most of them. Good, reliable and robust system that is dated, but can do the job.

One thing I have never done is run any of the combloc steel cased ammo in my AR's. My LMT's or Colts have never experienced Wolf or Silver Bear/Brown Bear ammo in them. That lacquered steel cased stuff is reserved for AK's only.