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The Last Gunsmiths of the Khyber Pass

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Re: The Last Gunsmiths of the Khyber Pass

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Similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borz

Related: (¶31-32 p.17) https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1313661/downl...

(My wild ass guess is that in the twenty-first century, as in the eighteenth, it takes far more[1] than SALW to mount an insurgency against regulars:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZcz589tJ5Q

To me, the fetish for twentieth-century small arms among the various poorly-regulated US militia implies they're more likely to menace a poorly armed populace, or a BATF unit, than any of the well-regulated State units. Then again, as the affadavit above shows, using logic is not exactly the best way to predict these people.)

Any bets as to whether pakistan will join Oceania (as a commonwealth country) or Eastasia (in opposition to india)?

[1] US twentieth-century own goal: providing man-portable seeker missiles to a bunch of guys who had crazy ideas about visibility of women's bodies, alcohol consumption, and the relation between religion and state.

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Re: The Last Gunsmiths of the Khyber Pass

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where are you located? It's legal in much of the US, including California (although there are some legal hoops to jump through). Take a look at the "Gunnit Rust" posts (particularly Tier I) on /r/guns for inspiration.

Thanks, I'm in the US. Will take a look.

I wouldn't suggest starting totally from scratch as a first project, so if you want something more challenging than an AR you might look into surplus parts kits. InrangeTV had a good series covering their CETME-L kits a couple years back.

Re: The Last Gunsmiths of the Khyber Pass

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Oh hey! I'm from that area. If you guys have any queries. :). Also the quality isn't top notch, but for the price you are paying it's ok. You are much better off buying a Russian AK-47 for $1100 like i did than buying it from Khyber for $120.

Does a "low quuality" firearm just jam, or are you risking an explosion?

Re: The Last Gunsmiths of the Khyber Pass

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Oh hey! I'm from that area. If you guys have any queries. :). Also the quality isn't top notch, but for the price you are paying it's ok. You are much better off buying a Russian AK-47 for $1100 like i did than buying it from Khyber for $120.

In the US, AK47s are almost all semi-automatic. When you say AK47 are you talking about the original automatic kind?

Re: The Last Gunsmiths of the Khyber Pass

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Oh hey! I'm from that area. If you guys have any queries. :). Also the quality isn't top notch, but for the price you are paying it's ok. You are much better off buying a Russian AK-47 for $1100 like i did than buying it from Khyber for $120.

In the US, AK47s are almost all semi-automatic. When you say AK47 are you talking about the original automatic kind?

Yup! Original fully automatic.

Re: The Last Gunsmiths of the Khyber Pass

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Oh hey! I'm from that area. If you guys have any queries. :). Also the quality isn't top notch, but for the price you are paying it's ok. You are much better off buying a Russian AK-47 for $1100 like i did than buying it from Khyber for $120.

Does a "low quuality" firearm just jam, or are you risking an explosion?

No explosion. Just occasional jamming.

Re: The Last Gunsmiths of the Khyber Pass

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That's some incredible skill, especially with such limited tech.

Limited? When they say CNC, I'm imagining something like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfFtPFJWufs&t=170 but maybe I should scale down my expectations?

Edit: OK, not quite as fancy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj1qpAZf3yE

PS. arbhassan, any local music videos you'd recommend?

is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73kBQHabhoY&t=840 a good introduction? (knowing neither pashto nor arabic script, my search-fu is very weak)

Re: The Last Gunsmiths of the Khyber Pass

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Oh hey! I'm from that area. If you guys have any queries. :). Also the quality isn't top notch, but for the price you are paying it's ok. You are much better off buying a Russian AK-47 for $1100 like i did than buying it from Khyber for $120.

Does a "low quuality" firearm just jam, or are you risking an explosion?

Depends on the quality and what kind of bullet it's chambered for. Alot of them, such as https://youtu.be/zTvxFNRLbiw, are tourist souviners and not intended at all to ever be shot. This one would almost certainly explode.

Re: The Last Gunsmiths of the Khyber Pass

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Oh hey! I'm from that area. If you guys have any queries. :). Also the quality isn't top notch, but for the price you are paying it's ok. You are much better off buying a Russian AK-47 for $1100 like i did than buying it from Khyber for $120.

Are you involved in the tech industry in Afghanistan or Pakistan? Is there a local software dev industry there? Would love to hear more!
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