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[edit] AK-???

See here, upper photo ("Hezbollah fighter in Beirut"). AK-103/104? The AK-101/102 would seem to have a different magazine, the mag's curve in the photo seems more pronounced.

But the muzzleward parts of the barrel differ. It does not have the AK-105/107 recoil compensator, and the distance between the forward sights and the gas port is small (even taking into account perspective). Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 01:48, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] MP 446

This article needs an image. The author(I assume) included an image from world.guns.ru in an editor's note. Curious if it'd be okay to go ahead and upload that one. Thanks, Wakanda's Black Panther!♠/♦ 07:33, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] From the M16 article

"Cultural impact and civilian ownership The M16 and its variants are ubiquitous in American and many other countries' films, TV series and video games. Among U.S. firearms owners, fully automatic civilian M16 model production was restricted after 1986, but due to its long history there are many in circulation."

I admit ignorance on many aspects military type rifles, and perhaps I just never heard about the above, but it sure seems suspect to me. The statement "fully automatic civilian M16 model"s were "in circulation", either before or after 1986... Wouldn't such weaponry fall under and be outlawed by the 1934 act? Wikidenizen (talk) 14:37, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

The National Firearms Act of 1934 outlawed nothing if I remember correctly. It merely put a federal tax on a number of categories of weapons and required federal registration and law enforcement approval before transfer (local LE and ATF). In 1986 a law was passed banning the construction of new machine guns (machine guns only) for civilian ownership. Machine guns manufactured for civilian consumption prior to 1986 can still be transfered legally under NFA rules. -- Thatguy96 (talk) 14:45, 29 May 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Page merge proposal

I'd like to propose merging the Taurus Millennium Pro PT-140 page and the Taurus Millennium PT145 into a new page 'Taurus Millennium series' (which doesn't exist yet). Both of the existing pages are very short, the major difference between the various models of this series being some are 'pro' series and also finishes and calibers... I'm not sure the notability even exists to justify seperate articles for all these different pistol models. The new page would retain all the existing information, and can be expanded with information for the other models in the series. Comments? Wikidenizen (talk) 21:12, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

You have my support. Koalorka (talk) 21:15, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
Support, of course. A clear cut case of WP:GUNS#Variants.--LWF (talk) 21:36, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] battle rifle designations

a battle rifle is supposed to be a rifle that fires a highpowered round, right? but its still a very general and broad term. so why do my edits get reverted when I tried changing the G3s designation to automatic rifle? wouldnt it make sense to better categorise and more auccuratly describe what type of rifle it is? ('bolt-action rifle', 'semi-automatic rifle', 'automatic rifle' or 'lever-action rifle') —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.241.246.76 (talk) 11:48, 11 June 2008 (UTC)