That was the basic idea. Make it cheap and easy to manufacture with loose enough tolerances that sand and dirt will just drop right through rather than gumming up the works. Most of them rattle terribly when you shake them, but they tend to be more reliable than US made M16s when conditions get really dirty.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dan Farrell Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 5:44 PM Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Which tools the OpenBSD developers are using? > ps. Two items regarding the AK47. I've heard that the majority of these > are being produced illegally (manufacturer didn't get the required > license from the Soviet inventor) and that, besides the gun barrel, most > parts can be stamped out of sheet metal instead of having to be machined. Almost sounds like open-source weaponry... Dan Farrell
