Everything but work is on hold right now - there's no rest for the AK building business right now, we are in full swing 5-6 days a week. There is no shortage of buyers for every rifle we build. Purely as a matter of record, Obama has no right saying that those who are buying the guns "have enough guns" until I can tell "them" they have enough laws and taxes. I'm sure others have said that in wittier fashion this past week, so "what they said."
Those who know me know that delays, stops and starts and slowdowns in my writing are not new - but after a couple months of unemployment in this economy, I'm sufficiently motivated to put the job first, even if it screws over my writing time. Nothing to say right now, anyway - Brownells hasn't emailed me back, so my purchases from them are on hold, any Remington info is "on hold" and all H-S Precision did was pull their apology from their site. So, industry news is thin until SHOT it would seem - I'm sure I'll have lots to geek out about then - I'll be too busy working this year to go, but next year is a definite attend.
The other good news is that my long-term endeavor to write fiction may finally be bearing some fruit, in short form. We'll see if it sticks, I'll be bothering editors for input and/or money in a few weeks.
KsR
December 14, 2008
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How are the supplies of AK parts looking? What parts are the ATF allowing into the country these days? Are we going to see a 100% American AK?
Supplies are plentiful, as always. Importation? Another story. BATFE and Customs do not care if the demand is tenfold of pre-election, they don't care to process anything faster.
Parts is too long of a question to answer quickly, but let's say that while every part of a semi-auto rifle. in a single-shot restricted configuration can be imported, you still have to rebuild the whole thing on a US receiver, with the US parts count.
A 100% American-built AK? It's certainly always possible, but the cost of a raw, unmolested parts kit is so ridiculously low, that US production looks awful expensive by comparison. You still have to pay someone build the AK either way, and US production of the parts looks to be about 5-10x more expensive than Hungarian or Romanian.
KsR
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