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Originally Posted by solo2020
The AK47 in the hands of a competant marksmen will do serious damage, there are also several variations of the AK (Dragunov being one of them) that can pick off enemies from 1/2 a mile away.
Are you sure the .223 round was designed to maim and not to kill? The standard NATO Full Metal Jack round that is designed to penetrate and not to mushroom?
But it all comes down to personal preferance. I would compare a AK and a M16 to a Muscle car and a highly tuned import. The AK being loud and heavy and powerful while the M16 being more refined and more prone to failure.
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Almost any weapon in the hands of a competant marksman can be dangerous. Not to brag, but I am an Expert Marksman (so says the Army at least). I've fired an AK47 (not 74) and found it to be innacurate past about 150m or so. Maybe it was just the weapon I fired. *shrug*
Yes, the .223 round is SPECIFICALLY designed to maim and not kill. The maim is an ideal tactical victory on a soldier by soldier basis. Mushrooming rounds are forbidden by the Genvea Convention and sadly enough I think the US is one of only 3 or 4 countries that still abide by those rules (for the most part).
At any rate, the argument is NOT so much against the AK as for the M16... I've fired the thing more times than I can count and have always been fairly please. The one or two times I've had it jam, I've been able to pull SPORTS on it in under 5 seconds and continue firing.
If you're looking just for kick or power, then I'd say a nice .50cal automatic would be more to your liking. Or even a SAW, same .223 but much faster fire rates. It doesn't need to be accurate to sweep a street.