Sensible Erection | How to build an AK-47

Wednesday, 16 April 2008

quote [ "Welcome to the hobby of home building firearms. You are about to embark on a challenge of skill, patience and artistry. When you have finished your build you will have the knowledge and pride that comes from completing a demanding job with your own hands." ]

Something to do with your tools besides the usual boring home improvement stuff. Also, no government paper trail!

(Other survival links in extended)

Build a vegetable oil lamp:
http://www.judyofthewoods.net/lamp.html

Build a stove that runs on rubbing alcohol:
http://theprepared.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=96&Itemid=55

Put together an ultralight bugout bag:
http://www.alpharubicon.com/prepinfo/bullminibob.htm

True survival stories (10 paragraphs down):
http://mysite.verizon.net/resynyhx/prepareordie/

Purifying water (put those condoms to good use):
http://www.therangerdigest.com/Tips___Tricks/Filter_and_Purifying_Water/body_filter_and_purifying_water.htm

Fat guy firing an AK-47. Cool music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcE0yNwcg10

[sci&tech] [by NuppleHopper@2:55pmGMT] [+10]

Comments

Rainbow Randolf said @ 3:05pm GMT on 16th Apr
This is...this is wholly unnecessary.

BlutStein1984 said @ 5:04pm GMT on 16th Apr [Score:1 Insightful]
That all depends on whether you care to learn handy information and where you live.

phlegm said @ 10:03pm GMT on 16th Apr
AK's are cheap just about everywhere. It's more good information for people who want one and have some worthless time on their hands.

phlegm said @ 10:07pm GMT on 16th Apr
And if you live somewhere where you don't have to get a license to create firearms. That's a big one.

Dalej said @ 11:02pm GMT on 16th Apr
All of those parts except the barrel and the lick are available legally, even in countries that have very tight gun laws.

todde said @ 12:05am GMT on 17th Apr
In the United States the "gun" is the receiver. As long is it's been purchased legally and the final product fits Federal standards such as the length of the barrel it's all good.

Nihil said @ 10:10pm GMT on 16th Apr
Or who want one but it is illegal in their country.

phlegm said @ 11:33pm GMT on 16th Apr
Since it's already illegal, why buy smuggled parts when you can buy a smuggled, assembled gun? Unless you're doing the smuggling yourself and can only take a few small bits at a time, but that seems like an edge case.

mwoody said @ 12:00am GMT on 17th Apr
Because in certain cases, selling/buying the kit isn't illegal.

sanepride said @ 2:27am GMT on 17th Apr
What really impressed me in looking at these instructions is the brilliant simplicity of Kalashnikov's design. Looking at it from a purely detached, technical viewpoint, it's no wonder that this particular device has remained so popular and basically unchanged for over 60 years.

Dalej said @ 11:02pm GMT on 16th Apr
I agree. It's just silly.

robotroadkill said @ 6:10am GMT on 17th Apr
Welcome to the internet. Unnecessary is the way of 95% of it.

ishmail said @ 3:17pm GMT on 16th Apr
I wouldn't trust a birdhouse I made to be safe, let alone a firearm.

warmseat said @ 3:40pm GMT on 16th Apr

Meh, what's the worst that could happen?

steele.ero said @ 11:45pm GMT on 16th Apr
Yeesh.

Dioxin said @ 3:23pm GMT on 16th Apr [Score:1 Underrated]
HEAP gun?

warmseat said @ 3:29pm GMT on 16th Apr
Next: how to make your own undersea cable cutter!

teknokracy said @ 5:09pm GMT on 16th Apr
I would have personally hoped for instructions on how to build a Reason

PoTayToe said @ 10:23pm GMT on 16th Apr [Score:1 Insightful]
Because everybody listens to Reason.

teknokracy said @ 4:17pm GMT on 16th Apr

there's a certain irony to using a Canadian penny to build a gun.

lycurgus said @ 4:43pm GMT on 16th Apr
How so? There's plenty of guns in Canada.

teknokracy said @ 5:08pm GMT on 16th Apr
No, not really.

sacrelicious said @ 5:26pm GMT on 16th Apr
Canadians own more guns per-capita than Americans.

my source for this is Bowling For Columbine.

Nostrildamus said @ 6:52pm GMT on 16th Apr
Then it must be bullshit.

Acbar said @ 8:28pm GMT on 16th Apr [Score:1 Informative]
False.

Acbar said @ 8:44pm GMT on 16th Apr
They are "higher" on this list, however.

EPT said @ 10:21pm GMT on 16th Apr
Jamaica is below all the 'Anglo' countries!? They've got some puffing to do to get their rep back!

phlegm said @ 10:04pm GMT on 16th Apr
Jesus. We are winning the shit out of that list. No one else is even close.

U-S-A, U-S-A, U-S-A!!!

lycurgus said @ 12:00am GMT on 17th Apr
Wikipedia vs Michael Moore???

BlutStein1984 said @ 1:17am GMT on 17th Apr
I trust wikipedia a hell of a lot more than Michael Moore. Wikipedia might be user generated and prone to errors but at least it doesn't have a pre-meditated goal of giving out false information in order to reach some personal goal.

lycurgus said @ 2:16am GMT on 17th Apr
Well said.

KropperPrime said @ 4:37am GMT on 17th Apr [Score:1 Underrated]
Are you accusing Michael Moore of being a mainstream journalist?

revchoppy said @ 5:42am GMT on 17th Apr
*sigh*

this again.

Please provide proof that Michael Moore gives out false information in order to reach some personal goal.

Thank you.

Valkoinen_Kettu said @ 11:43am GMT on 17th Apr
(look up)

revchoppy said @ 12:29am GMT on 18th Apr
Don't see the proof.

Please provide proof.

BlutStein1984 said @ 1:29am GMT on 18th Apr
It's completely valid to call me lazy, but at this point in the Michael Moore debate...I refer you to google.

revchoppy said @ 5:02am GMT on 18th Apr
I could refer you to google, as well, if I were arguing that the Holocaust didn't happen... and you'd find tons of "evidence" for that, too.

Either way, I have been through this argument COUNTLESS times with people who claim he is a "liar", and then they attempt to back it up with biased, shaky "evidence" that doesn't stand up to any scrutiny.

Therefore, and I fell like I'm ready to do this AGAIN, please provide proof that Michael Moore is a liar or that he lied in his films.

lilmookieesquire said @ 1:15am GMT on 17th Apr
"this number is not a representation of the percentage of people who possess guns in each nation."

That's guns:people, not % of people who own guns.

KropperPrime said @ 4:27am GMT on 17th Apr [Score:-1 Flamebait]
Statistics can be manipulated.

If you consider the ratio of guns per habitant and not the total amount and if you consider territories as well as provinces, I think Canada may have a higher ratio. Simply because in some northern Canadian areas, EVERYONE has several guns (rifles).

Now, Canadians use their guns mostly for hunting wild animals, where people from USA use them to hunt people.

Black people use them to hunt other black people.

And white people use them to hunt black people that didn't get killed by other black people in the first place.

Context said @ 4:59am GMT on 17th Apr [Score:2 Underrated]
You should end your comments about three sentences earlier.

mwoody said @ 10:43am GMT on 17th Apr
And with a rimshot.

Dalej said @ 11:04pm GMT on 16th Apr
Yes, really.

Canadians own a lot of guns.

It's just you, stupid arrogant Americans who don't even know what's going on at your closest naibours country.

Sign...

Sory for the troll, but that kind of blind stupidity irritates me.

valen85 said @ 12:53am GMT on 17th Apr
and now you know how i feel

valen85 said @ 12:53am GMT on 17th Apr
i feel the same way a lot of the times here

lilmookieesquire said @ 1:13am GMT on 17th Apr
Neighbors?! I thought we already annexed yo- oh. was that next year? Maple Gold baby.

fgcow said @ 3:27am GMT on 17th Apr
Except if you bothered to look @ teknokracy's profile, it might say a little something like "Vancouver, BC, Canada".

Blind stupidity what?

Dalej said @ 3:45am GMT on 17th Apr
Blind stupidity? I dunno, maybe.. to know so little about your own country.

You check profile of every SE user before you comment? WoW!

fgcow said @ 4:11am GMT on 17th Apr
Well, teknokracy has made numerous comments in the past clearly indicating that he/she is in Vancouver.
The knee-jerk "stupid Americans" was baseless in this regard, so it needed correcting.

lycurgus said @ 1:31am GMT on 18th Apr
Wow..that's pretty shocking. So Tek isn't a stupid American, he's just woefully ignorant about his own country?

lycurgus said @ 11:56pm GMT on 16th Apr
Never been there, eh?

sanepride said @ 4:52pm GMT on 16th Apr
I didn't know the Canadian penny had a particularly high iron content.

lilmookieesquire said @ 1:04am GMT on 17th Apr
That was like 3 points worth of funny. Very nice.

sanepride said @ 2:19am GMT on 17th Apr
So Wherez my 3 points? :(

insanemonkey said @ 5:29pm GMT on 17th Apr
there's one over there

*points*

swiggy said @ 4:23pm GMT on 16th Apr
You see, if it comes to it (and it damn well might), I'd WANT the government to know I owned an automatic rifle. or several.

And they'd be more than welcome to try and take them away.

warmseat said @ 4:48pm GMT on 16th Apr

Ok, so instead of two patrolcars full of dumb cops they'll send a tank with heavy power.

sanepride said @ 5:08pm GMT on 16th Apr [Score:2 Insightful]
Five-star wanted level!

Nihil said @ 12:13am GMT on 17th Apr
Hijacking a tank is one of the coolest things you can do in GTA.

sanepride said @ 2:22am GMT on 17th Apr
I was always impressed at how selflessly heroic the cops became at that point, ramming their patrol cars into the tank even though it meant certain fiery death.

ckfahrenheit said @ 11:50am GMT on 17th Apr
That and gunning the superbike up the stairs for a long jump
What memories. I'm going to re-install that game

insanemonkey said @ 5:30pm GMT on 17th Apr
I hijacked a police helecopter once....it flew too low and i just jumped up and had it!

While we're on this subject, has anyone played GTA:MP?

swiggy said @ 6:10pm GMT on 16th Apr
let me clarify.

If the state of the world gets to the point where I feel the need to purchase multiple assault rifles, I'm going to go all-out and live in a bunker in the forest, loaded with tiger traps and land mines.

And, while we're bring hypothetical, terminator armor and a land raider with twin-linked lascannons.

Nostrildamus said @ 6:56pm GMT on 16th Apr
And a phased-plasma pulse rifle in 40-watt range?

Dude, if the state of the world gets to that point, you won't be able to purchase multiple assault rifles.

You'll have to already have them, and be prepared, because when the shit hits the fan, you won't be able to find them.

MrChaos said @ 7:49pm GMT on 16th Apr
OH, OH, OH, I WANNA GET ONE OF THEM TESLA THINGIES! You know, the one they've got in Red Alert? The cool ones which looks like christmas trees with a thirst for revenge?

happyman said @ 8:06pm GMT on 16th Apr
a well made tachi and wakizashi would serve well in field and close quarters battle (like a hallway). That is, if you don't want to be running around yelling and firing like a crazy lunatic to attract all the zombies.

KropperPrime said @ 4:39am GMT on 17th Apr
Bang, you are dead.

Fuck swords.

phunkeybuddha said @ 4:54am GMT on 17th Apr
*click* You're out of bullets.

*stab* You're dead.

valen85 said @ 7:13am GMT on 17th Apr
*inserts hypothetical amount of time for hypothetical reloading

almostz said @ 4:09am GMT on 18th Apr
Go old school, gas 'em.
won't fuck up the sheetrock and doesn't miss.
how much would a fire extinguisher full of poison and a gas mask cost?

happyman said @ 7:19am GMT on 17th Apr
Oh that's right... everyone wants to do the stupid Indiana Jones trick...

EPT said @ 7:16pm GMT on 16th Apr
Ah, land mines. The gift that keeps on giving.

lycurgus said @ 12:02am GMT on 17th Apr
Please, land mines are illegal. We call them "cluster bombs" now.

sensibleb said @ 1:34am GMT on 17th Apr [Score:2 Funny]
Actually, the new term is "peace pads". Please update your militias accordingly.

EPT said @ 8:42am GMT on 17th Apr
Interesting - just as it opposes the first world on the matter of the death penalty, so too the US doesn't like to come to the party on land mines

Valkoinen_Kettu said @ 11:50am GMT on 17th Apr
Calling Finland a third world country?

EPT said @ 6:46pm GMT on 17th Apr
You forgot Poland.

valen85 said @ 12:55am GMT on 17th Apr
warhammer blows
i read their IR press release and i lol'ed at how fucked games workshop is

eIfish said @ 7:35am GMT on 17th Apr
IR?

There's just one problem with Games Worksop' corporate strategy: their use of the formula target age group = 25 - [age of company / 2] years means that by 2025, they'll have to start gearing their content towards the newly-conceived.

eIfish said @ 7:30am GMT on 17th Apr
When I were a lad, twin-linked lascannons were the only loadout a land raider could have.

BlutStein1984 said @ 1:29am GMT on 17th Apr
I've heard this argument before and I've never quite understood it. Why does it matter what they bring in as reinforcements. Just because they own a tank does that make them on the right side of whatever the conflict is? Does it somehow undo your original reasoning for wanting to defend yourself?

If the soap gets dropped in prison, you're going to start squirming if someone gets the idea that they want to be more than just friends....do you relax and give in just because a few of his buddies come to hold you down? There's still an event going on that you don't want to happen and I don't see how that suddenly get dissolved just because they have better backup.

Milkman666 said @ 3:27am GMT on 17th Apr [Score:1 Underrated]
"I've heard this argument before and I've never quite understood it. Why does it matter what they bring in as reinforcements. Just because they own a tank does that make them on the right side of whatever the conflict is? Does it somehow undo your original reasoning for wanting to defend yourself?"

Its about the efficacy of fighting an entire government with pistols and rifles when they have overwhelming firepower. In this case carrying a gun just makes you dead. All it would accomplish would be to give you the false sense of safety before you're smeared by a UAV piloted by some merc who doesnt give a shit about you. If your really worried about having to fight the government in the near future, do like Iran and learn from the conflict in Iraq. As i understand it, its the bombs and mortars that seem to really rattle the soldiers more so than the wackos with AK's.

eIfish said @ 7:46am GMT on 17th Apr
And, interestingly enough, they didn't even need to acquire and hoard them: The explosives in most IEDs were just looted from the Real Army(tm)'s supply dumps, and the rest are salvaged from unexploded US bombs.

Valkoinen_Kettu said @ 11:58am GMT on 17th Apr
Yes because Iraqi insurgents don't carry guns. They just use bombs and mortars and when we come in close proximity of them with guns they just give up. Fighting a war requires small arms as well as big ones. I don't see how having a gun would hurt, a UAV can't determine who has a concealed firearm.
Anyway I'd say the average American is a better marksman than the average Iraqi and most have really good hunting rifles which would do better in such a conflict then "assault weapons" (Read: a semi-auto clone of an assault rifle such as an AK-47 or M16. Properly known as AKM and AR-15. No selective fire means no assault weapon.) A hunting rifle is a lot stronger and long ranged then the average "assault weapon". I think an American strategy in such a conflict would involve lots of sniping and running.

insanemonkey said @ 5:34pm GMT on 17th Apr
wow. way to miss the point.

Milkman666 said @ 6:18pm GMT on 17th Apr
The NIJ has been working on concealed weapon detection system since 95, with the end goal of producing a device that at a minimum of 12 feet can detect a weapon, one that is portable enough and cheap enough to be used by a patrol officer. For all i know they have hit a brick wall, but if your going to wait until you see it on the military channel or in TIME it will already have been in use for a while.

Sniper detection systems have already been made and tested out.

The weapons and systems that are being developed to combat guerilla fighters in foreign countries, to fight terrorists, will be just as usefull in administrating a police state.

This kind of conflict is not conventional warfare, walking around with long guns and pistols would not be an option. You might as well march in formation in big red coats and use muskets. Yes im sure there are a lot of iraqi insurgents with guns. Im certain you find those guns right next to the bodies of their former owners. Its the fucker who fights without the need of line of sight that will be harder to target.

All of this is moot anyway. There are several ways to combat this kind of thing, and i imagine the best method involves ensuring it never comes to guerilla fighting. In this hypothetical US civil war scenario, its not becoming a fascist government. With the Iraqi's... Id say we were on the right course by building up infrastucture and creating jobs. If it werent for foreign agents capitalizing on the rawness of the new country we might have seen some real progress.

arrowhen said @ 5:06pm GMT on 16th Apr [Score:2]

sacrelicious said @ 5:28pm GMT on 16th Apr
that's, like, so fucking original that I'm CERTAIN I never saw anything like it on Mr. Show or in a KFC viral campaign.

lilmookieesquire said @ 12:43am GMT on 17th Apr
I seriously can't tell if that's taking the piss or not.

wyckedfae said @ 1:46am GMT on 17th Apr
Lynchland. It's a podcast comedy variety show done by Liam Lynch.

wyckedfae said @ 1:52am GMT on 17th Apr

wyckedfae said @ 1:54am GMT on 17th Apr
What I've seen so far is pretty much all epic:

smoug said @ 8:49pm GMT on 16th Apr
Frankly, I'm so lazy that I'd rather pay the $500 for a used SAR than try to find, machine and assemble all the parts for cheaper.

sanepride said @ 2:47am GMT on 17th Apr
I get the feeling the survivalist craze of the 80's is about to make a big-time comeback.

KropperPrime said @ 4:30am GMT on 17th Apr
Just because the most powerful nation in the world is filled with war loving morons is no reason to panic.

Oh wait, maybe it is...

robotroadkill said @ 11:36am GMT on 17th Apr

rndmnmbr said @ 2:54am GMT on 17th Apr
Heck, the AK is cheap enough as it is. One gun shop in Lubbock, TX, sells a cheap Chinese AK semiauto for $365. One of the others sells a much better quality Romanian AK semiauto for $485. One of my cop buddies just bought one of the Romanian ones to carry on duty.

It's a fun gun. Cheap to feed, easy to shoot, makes you feel like a man when you shoot it. I see why communists and terrorists have hardons for this gun.

theolypse said @ 10:41am GMT on 17th Apr
There's that, plus the "soak it in mud overnight, rinse it off, and still use it" factor.

dangerm00se said @ 4:13am GMT on 17th Apr
SE'd?

ckfahrenheit said @ 11:53am GMT on 17th Apr
The extended links are fun - I just went through a 12-hr blackout to remind me to get my civilized ass back to real life. The alcohol stove was the thing I really wanted at the time, but of course the old instructions I had were in my desktop's hard drive