Despite arming tens of millions of revolutionaries, counter revolutionaries, tin pot dictators and drug thugs the world over, Izhmash hasn’t been doing all that well lately. As you’d expect in a post-Soviet Union world, where profit replaced politics. Or not. AK clones are kicking butt in the Land of the Free. Foreign gun salesmen are invading previously Soviet-only markets. And the AK-12 has yet to set the world on fire (literally or figuratively). In April of last year, Izhmash went bankrupt. The reorganized gunmaker is now banking on a new product to help get them back on their feet: the VS-121 Bullpup sniper rifle. [See: big ass scope and “extended” barrel.] According to the presser [via rt.com] the VS-121’s got an “up-to-date trigger and firing mechanism.” It accepts 7.62×54mm and 7.62×51mm cartridges as well “advanced new ammunition currently developed by the Izhmash design-engineering center specialists.” ‘Cause God knows we need another bull pup caliber (cough PS90 cough). If it’s dead nuts reliable . . . maybe. What are the odds?
Why don’t they call Obamamail. He is their savior. They elected the dirt bag.
but thats not an AK clone… that looks to be the SSP Dragunov/Tigr design which other than asthetically have nothing in common with an AK
If the price point is acceptable here in the US, I’d consider scooping one of these up.
I think the only suggestion I would make is to push on the point that things that make guns more accurate make them more SAFE. And to use the words “comfortable” and “ergonomic” more. Also, the way a flash-hider is described, some idiot could take it to mean it makes you invisible so the cops can’t see who’s shooting, when what a flash hider *really* does, for the most part, is redirect the flash so it doesn’t go up into the sight line and blind you. Other than that, though, I think this is one of the most well put together and logical videos I’ve seen so far, and we need to make sure we share it far and wide so that 2nd amendment advocates can use it as ammunition.
There’s still some room in my gun safe.
Y’know, “I love you. You’re perfect. Now change.” ain’t new, and ain’t one-sided.
Many guys will marry someone and then browbeat her into not being what attracted them in the first place, trying to cram her into a cage.
“No wife of mine’s gona dress like that,” “You need to find new friends,” “You can’t go clubbing anymore” et cetera.
It is no more wrong for a woman to say “Honey, now that we’re married…” than for a man to do so.
Both are totally wrong.
Just sayin’.
As the saying goes – Women marry men hoping they’ll change. Men marry women hoping they won’t.
Everybody ends up disappointed.
Did you just say something negative about FNH?! *gasp*
A certain someone around here is going to have a fit…
If its selling for (a lot) less than a Tavor and the magazines wont be some expensive hard to find oddball, I might consider this. I am curious about bullpups.
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I guess it doesn’t matter that the Chechen brothers used powder from fireworks? Unbelievable.
And Terrorist will simply purchase Fireworks like the Boston Bombers did. Once again, a do nothing law!
I could be wrong, but Lautenberg’s law has been proposed many times and has failed every time. Given they are close to recess, and there is immagration fight on the table, I highly doubt this will go anywhere.
The funny thing to me is in every state where Fireworks are banned, every 4th of July there are more Fireworks in the local neighborhoods than at the official celebration and cops drive by like nothing is happening.
You are right. Fireworks are banned in Oregon. As soon as you cross the border into Washington prior to he 4th there are huge fireworks stands everywhere you look with parking lots jammed with Oregon plates.
We always has friends and relatives bring over crap that flys and explodes from Washington. It always made the 4th More fun. The only legal fireworks at time were fountains and spinning fireworks.
Not trying to take away from the reloaders but does/will this mean anything for buying factory manufactured ammunition?
It’s an attempt to kill off reloading so everyone has to buy factory rounds, which would presumably extend the ammo shortage as more buy ammo. Then the government can more easily control supply by buying rounds themselves, which will keep people from shooting to train, hunt, or participate in competitions. Their idea to dry up supply of ARs clearly didn’t work, so they’re trying to dry up supply of ammo to kill off positive gun culture until only criminals and the government have ammo. When only criminals can shoot banning guns is a no-brainer. In order to get what they want crime has to get much worse.
Isn’t it ironic, how politicians who cry out for “common sense laws”, lack common sense.
But what they are doing makes sense only if you assume their motivation is to disarm us serfs. 🙂
So it’s Israel “Defense” women now, is it? Please, please, NO IDF.
Going out to buy charcoal, lots of it, and beer, lots of that too. Then I am gonna invite everybody over for a propane fueled barbecue, need to save the charcoal. Everyone is to pee in the barrels carefully, don’t wanna lose a drop. MMM, uric acid. Aluminum powder, gotta get aluminum…Bicarbonate as well, did I forget anything?…… let me think….let me think. This if course is due to the increase in the run on powder that this new legislation is likely to create. Create a run on ammo, then figure out how to stop us from making our own. But they “ARE NOT trying to take away anyone’s guns”. You know-anything dies without its appropriate food, but they ain’t going after guns. Riiiiight…….
One possibly advantage I could see, if you had the time and inclination to tinker, is that a recoil buffer could increase the speed/rate-of-fire by shortening the overall stroke of the firearm. Could you tell this from your test?
I am again amazed at the stubborn stupidity of these people. “We have to do something!” “It’s about the children!”
When I was in 6th grade, my shop teacher caused a small dust explosion to demonstrate the improtance of shop cleanliness. If I chose, I could easily make incindiary weapons or explosives with the cleaners, solvents, and pool supplies in my garage hazmat cabinet. It’s idiot simple to make things blow up or burn down.
I am forced to again conclude that this isn’t about ending the menace of homegrown terror, but is instead about the Federal Government’s ability to exert power without being hindered by civil rights or reason.
While the instructions look quite simple to me, it appears that the people at DD need to dumb down the process quite a bit more for the prototypical upper-west-side NYC liberal to be able to replicate them:
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/05/its-not-so-easy-3-d-print-gun/64951/
You know, I used to regard these latte-sipping, upper-west-side liberals with disdain.
Now I can muster only pity. It must be terribly emasculating to have no mechanical aptitude whatsoever.
My fat ass would never be able to complete that training but I have to admit, it does look fun, scary and I know I would learn a lot from it.
As to the topic, YAY for the states that have these Defense Forces!
I don’t think that the NRA has been asleep and I know damn well that it doesn’t discriminate. The NRA has a lot of OFWGs because we are the ones who signed the application. Everybody gets the same one, and we signed it and sent in our checks.
As far as recruiting is concerned, the NRA did not recruit me. I recruited it. So did every other member. If women and black men are under-represented in the NRA, it’s because they have chosen not to join.
Can the NRA do something to make women and black men want to join? Maybe. I hope so. But maybe not.
Wow. The left hates this guy because he is right and they know it.
With time the Russians will lose more and more sales to China as the Chinese are known to steal Russians weapon systems.
The Chinese make copies of every sort of weapon from every country. They are generally not as good as the original but are much cheaper. For many customers the top priority is low price, but for the Russian military the focus seems to have changed from easy production, simplicity, and utter reliabiliy in all weather conditions, to all of that plus improved accuracy. Of course improved accuracy means more than a new rifle with a long heavy barrel… it means consistent clean burning ammo, optics tha allow long range target acquisition and identification and of course the training needed to hit targets at long range.