Only picture I could find of the rifle was a piss-poor one. Can't tell much about it, and it looks like it might have been doctored by someone - there is a white line going up the center of it, right at the base of the magazine, and the illumination/contrast on either side of the line looks different.
With that said, what I could get out of that picture wasn't much, and it's not very reliable. It's the damndest AK I've ever seen. From the receiver forward, it looks like an SVD Dragunov clone. Forearm, barrel, gas tube, and gas block looks just like a Dragunov.
Can't tell anything at all about the receiver, not even the scope mount - whether it's a side mount or a top mount, which has implications for accuracy. The top covers on AK are too unstable to mount a scope on reliably, but some folks still try. The side mount bracket is more stable, but all the AKs I've ever dealt with that used on have the scope offset to the left of the bore axis, also not good.
Can't tell much about the magazine, either. I can tell a 5.45x39 from a 7.62x39 by the magazine normally, but that one isn't clear enough in the picture to make that determination. It doesn't look like an SVD magazine, though (7.62x54R), and the angle of the bottom of it is all wrong for any AK at all - but that might just be a function of the "doctoring", if there was any.
The butt stock looks like some kind of after-market monstrosity, or else a "California compliant" or "post-ban" butt. It looks like it mounts into the back of the receiver. like a normal AK butt stock, but has the long wrist of a "post ban" magazine instead of the normal AK pistol grip, which makes trigger control a pain in the ass.
Might be, as mentioned above, some bastardized version of some Saiga variant.
If that piss-poor image is an indication of things to come, I don't have a good feeling about this.
I worked security in Greensboro, NC for a few years, during part of which time this joker lived there, too. He's what we referred to as a "cowboy" or "dime-store cowboy" there. He's a wannabe, both a wannabe cop and a wannabe criminal. Really, he's a wannabe badass, and he just doesn't have the smarts to pull any of it off. If his brains were pure nitro-glycerine, he wouldn't have enough to blow his fucking nose. His knowledge of "badassery" was minimal - he knew just enough to get himself into trouble, but not enough to carry anything serious off.
Be careful of what you read on the internet regarding this incident. There is going to be a lot of bullshit flying, and there already is some out there. Don't believe much of what you read about it - we're going to see a lot of fiction mixed in with just a little bit of fact, the purpose of that salting of fact is going to be solely to try to lend some veracity to the bullshit. In other words, some of your standard, every-day propaganda. That propaganda is going to be flying from BOTH sides, and some Secret-Squirrel outfits will probably be manufacturing some conspiracy-theory propaganda in an attempt to muddy the waters.
Some times, life is like trying to navigate a goddamned mine field!
I'd let the dust settle some before putting much faith in anything I read about it.
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With that said, what I could get out of that picture wasn't much, and it's not very reliable. It's the damndest AK I've ever seen. From the receiver forward, it looks like an SVD Dragunov clone. Forearm, barrel, gas tube, and gas block looks just like a Dragunov.
Can't tell anything at all about the receiver, not even the scope mount - whether it's a side mount or a top mount, which has implications for accuracy. The top covers on AK are too unstable to mount a scope on reliably, but some folks still try. The side mount bracket is more stable, but all the AKs I've ever dealt with that used on have the scope offset to the left of the bore axis, also not good.
Can't tell much about the magazine, either. I can tell a 5.45x39 from a 7.62x39 by the magazine normally, but that one isn't clear enough in the picture to make that determination. It doesn't look like an SVD magazine, though (7.62x54R), and the angle of the bottom of it is all wrong for any AK at all - but that might just be a function of the "doctoring", if there was any.
The butt stock looks like some kind of after-market monstrosity, or else a "California compliant" or "post-ban" butt. It looks like it mounts into the back of the receiver. like a normal AK butt stock, but has the long wrist of a "post ban" magazine instead of the normal AK pistol grip, which makes trigger control a pain in the ass.
Might be, as mentioned above, some bastardized version of some Saiga variant.
If that piss-poor image is an indication of things to come, I don't have a good feeling about this.
I worked security in Greensboro, NC for a few years, during part of which time this joker lived there, too. He's what we referred to as a "cowboy" or "dime-store cowboy" there. He's a wannabe, both a wannabe cop and a wannabe criminal. Really, he's a wannabe badass, and he just doesn't have the smarts to pull any of it off. If his brains were pure nitro-glycerine, he wouldn't have enough to blow his fucking nose. His knowledge of "badassery" was minimal - he knew just enough to get himself into trouble, but not enough to carry anything serious off.
Be careful of what you read on the internet regarding this incident. There is going to be a lot of bullshit flying, and there already is some out there. Don't believe much of what you read about it - we're going to see a lot of fiction mixed in with just a little bit of fact, the purpose of that salting of fact is going to be solely to try to lend some veracity to the bullshit. In other words, some of your standard, every-day propaganda. That propaganda is going to be flying from BOTH sides, and some Secret-Squirrel outfits will probably be manufacturing some conspiracy-theory propaganda in an attempt to muddy the waters.
Some times, life is like trying to navigate a goddamned mine field!
I'd let the dust settle some before putting much faith in anything I read about it.
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