On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:10:06 -0700, "Pittman Pirate"
wrote:


It's pretty funny to see you telling the other guy he doesn't "know s**t
about
real world guns" and then go on to make the laughable misstatements you
do.

The designer's name is Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov.
He was born in 1919, not 1930, and thus was 28 years old, not 17.
AK stands for "Avtomat Kalashnikova" (Kalashnikov's automatic [rifle]).

The only part you got right is that "47" refers to the year it was
designed.

"But I forget you are stupid, uninformed, uneducated, and don't know dick
about guns."

Wrong Google. You're right. But obviously the original poster knows
nothing about guns, or he/she/it would not have made a statement that the AK
47 was a replacement for a M16.

I'm a pirate, not a marksman.

I never implied the AK was a replacement for the 16. The post I replied to was
about a rifle that could be buried in dirt, pulled out & fired without cleaning.
That's the AK.

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