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Posted: 12/17/2014 3:44:32 PM EDT
How many ak47's and ak74's DO you

estimate are in the US right now??

All variants of both models count even pistols.

Link Posted: 12/14/2014 5:42:30 PM EDT
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87,000

Link Posted: 12/14/2014 5:43:27 PM EDT
[#2]
yeah right
Link Posted: 12/17/2014 3:45:01 PM EDT
[#3]
at least 87.87
Link Posted: 12/17/2014 3:46:00 PM EDT
[#4]
All were lost in a series of tragic boating accidents.

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Link Posted: 12/17/2014 3:46:27 PM EDT
[#5]
^Somewhere between those two figures. 870; 8,700; somewhere in there.
Link Posted: 12/17/2014 3:46:48 PM EDT
[#6]
Enough for an Army....
Link Posted: 12/17/2014 3:49:39 PM EDT
[#7]
I'm going to have to estimate somewhere north of potato.
Link Posted: 12/17/2014 3:53:25 PM EDT
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Maybe close to the AR #

Until recently they were relatively cheap for the average guy to buy. Where AR's only recently dipped below the $1k price mark.

Youd have to go back to early 80's to have AR prices at what an AK was at 5 years ago (4-500)
Link Posted: 12/17/2014 3:56:10 PM EDT
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Maybe 20 ak47s and  probably not any AK74s
Link Posted: 12/17/2014 3:57:36 PM EDT
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More like 870,000.

There were actually 87,000,000 back in the day, but after the great flood, we had to start from scratch.
Link Posted: 12/17/2014 4:00:50 PM EDT
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Everyone wants to know how many _____ there are, us so we can gloat, and them so they can panic about it.  Let's count, I have...uh...three.  

Link Posted: 12/17/2014 4:04:26 PM EDT
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"We're going to need a bigger trashcan"

Link Posted: 12/17/2014 4:10:56 PM EDT
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Not enough, that's for sure. Seems everything is drying up, kits with barrels gone and now having to pay twice as much for a good rifle. It sucks.

Still don't understand how a hardened steel core M855 is exempt from importation but soft steel core Russian 74 ammo isn't. Maybe a letter sent to the tech department to ask this very question?



Link Posted: 12/17/2014 4:12:15 PM EDT
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1,249,667 last I check.  Combined 47 and 74.
Link Posted: 12/17/2014 4:15:33 PM EDT
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Not enough, that's for sure. Seems everything is drying up, kits with barrels gone and now having to pay twice as much for a good rifle. It sucks.

Still don't understand how a hardened steel core M855 is exempt from importation but soft steel core Russian 74 ammo isn't. Maybe a letter sent to the tech department to ask this very question?



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Because Automatic Transmission Fluid, and reasons.
Link Posted: 12/17/2014 4:15:34 PM EDT
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We talking real ones or neutered semis?

Link Posted: 12/17/2014 4:25:42 PM EDT
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Would have to have been imported before GCA '68.  Unless converted, which I'm not counting as a "real" one.

Link Posted: 12/17/2014 4:34:12 PM EDT
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Would have to have been imported before GCA '68.  Unless converted, which I'm not counting as a "real" one.

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Would have to have been imported before GCA '68.  Unless converted, which I'm not counting as a "real" one.


You mean FOPA 86, yes?
Link Posted: 12/17/2014 4:42:03 PM EDT
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Is this a trick question?  None because Obama banned them!
Link Posted: 12/17/2014 4:49:06 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 12/17/2014 8:35:44 PM EDT
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Probably 87 million!    
Link Posted: 12/17/2014 8:39:26 PM EDT
[#22]
I know for a fact that there are at least 5.
Link Posted: 12/17/2014 8:43:44 PM EDT
[#23]
I can account for 9 of them.
Link Posted: 12/17/2014 8:47:17 PM EDT
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Twice as many as half of them.
Link Posted: 12/17/2014 8:48:41 PM EDT
[#25]
700 or 800 I forget.
Link Posted: 12/17/2014 8:49:49 PM EDT
[#26]
By my incredibly scientific calculations, I'd say there are 2/3 as many AKs as there are AR15 variants.
Link Posted: 12/17/2014 8:53:13 PM EDT
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If they could ban m855 they would. It and m2 armor piercing are specifically protected by the same law that gives the authority to ban the others.
Link Posted: 12/17/2014 9:47:20 PM EDT
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to many!
Link Posted: 12/17/2014 9:53:34 PM EDT
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over a 100,000 between all makes and models and countries that made and exported them.
Link Posted: 12/17/2014 9:59:41 PM EDT
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City dump FTW!
Link Posted: 12/17/2014 10:04:58 PM EDT
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Those are the legal ones.  Add to that a bunch illegally brought in by various leftist groups and the Russian Cartels operating with and without the Mexican and S. American Cartels.
Link Posted: 12/17/2014 10:06:49 PM EDT
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Would have to have been imported before GCA '68.  Unless converted, which I'm not counting as a "real" one.





Somehow, after 13+ yrs of the GWOT, I bet there are more UNpapered fullauto AK's here than there are legal ones.

And that's fine by me.
Link Posted: 12/17/2014 10:07:56 PM EDT
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I was ready for it and blew soda out my nose
Link Posted: 12/17/2014 10:09:23 PM EDT
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I know people who still have dozens of barreled parts kits in boxes in there garages, bought cheap just because in case.

AK's are going to be common in America for the next hundred years, imo.
Link Posted: 12/17/2014 10:11:05 PM EDT
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I know where there are of 4 of the first variety and 5 of the other.
Link Posted: 12/17/2014 10:17:35 PM EDT
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seriously?
Link Posted: 12/17/2014 10:20:52 PM EDT
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OP are you from the DU an alphabet agency or liberal media ?
Link Posted: 12/17/2014 10:36:05 PM EDT
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OP are you from the DU an alphabet agency or liberal media ?
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OP are you from the DU an alphabet agency or liberal media ?



21 posts in nearly 4 yrs.

Seems legit.
Link Posted: 12/17/2014 10:57:43 PM EDT
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I was ready for it and blew soda out my nose
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I was ready for it and blew soda out my nose

Send me a bill for the cleanup
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