AK (SEMI), VS Full auto AKM or a real "Assault Rifle"
Hello all/Responce to Hillbilly68
Ron L here = SERESURPLUS
The differences are pety much as Liebo has stated, it's a matter of one needing the Class # Buyer to trasfer it to someone who has paid the 200$ tax stamp, gone through the Feds vetting system to make usre your not a criminal and putting you in thier data bank to harass the entire time of your ownership? I had a Thompson yers ago and after a Buddy had an MP-5 stolen out of a Vehicle at a show, I sold off that Class three Item quick? The harassed him for years following that theft, despite he has ploice reports has afew suspect folks that might have stolen it in files and all, they trated him like HE Had stolen his own gun!
Now, in the pratical application, I have had the oppertunity to fire both Semi-auto models, (I own a Madi Egyption copy of the Rissan AKM) that rifle was built on Russian machinery, so it's darn close to the russian AK-47, was the closest in the countrty till the Russian models got imported a while back? In the end, the Semi auto feels, acts and shoots like the Full auto select fire model in Semi-auto mode! it's when the Full auto Model AKM or AK-47 is flipped to the Funn auto mode on the selector do the differences appear? To be honest, it trows a lot of lead out there! it's Funll, awesome to see, lots of Muzzle flash, a biut of muzzle rise and a lot of empty brass flying! Does it really have a usefull application? I'd say for the the average "Joe" NO! It's a good "panic Fire" application, if you were surrounded and needed to put a lot of lead down range, but a lot of Misses, a lot of expended ammo and for most but the most experienced a lot of MISSES! You can rent one at some ranges that offer it, and as well the M-16 Full auto cousin of th AR-15, In fact I encourage it! That way, one gets a true appreciation for semi=-auto aimed fire? That puts a lot more rounds in the "Black" and puts the bad guy down far more often than a lot of misses and spent brass flying? Fun yes, Pratical to all but those that pratic a lot and lot, NO!