Originally Posted by
Circle_10
Very early on Vector was welding instead of riveting their AKs together but poor customer feedback led them to abandon that in favor of doing it the correct way. I don’t think very many of the weld builds even made it out to the consumers. After that brief flub I don’t recall the Vector AKs having any problems and they seemed to be pretty well regarded.
Even my mutant build seems fine from a functional standpoint, although to be fair I haven’t shot it much either.
I remember the shitty AK brands of the day like Hesse/Vulcan and so forth and all the drama surrounding Joeken Firearms. I don’t remember the Vectors being considered bad guns at the time.
What sunk Vector Arms wasn’t the quality of their products but apparently a connection with some shady overseas business dealings involving some guy who had a contract to supply the Afghan Army defrauding the US government by misrepresenting the origin of an ammo shipment or something. I forget the details but Vector got wrapped up in it too somehow and they ended up going out of business eventually.
The owner of Vector, Ralph Merrill was actually the guy funding those two idiots in Miami who did the Chinese ammo deal the movie War Dogs was about.
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