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I really want one of those

Wow! The great weapon of the communist revolution now sparkles with gold plated bougouis glory. The irony is delicious!

[Gen. George S. Patton Jr.] Only a pimp from a cheap New Orleans whorehouse would carry a gold plated AK-47! [/Patton]

That is disgusting. Give me a glass-filled polyamide furniture AK-74M any day.

Aint an AK-47. Its an AK-104.

:drool: I want one...

And this too.

What kind of gun is that Ein? As for the gold Ak104 gun, does it actually fire?

does it come with gold bullets too?

neel wrote:What kind of gun is that Ein?

That is, quite obviously, an MP-5K. *thwaps*
And I must admit to some hypocricy on my part where such weapons are concerned:
While I think civil war/'Western (for want of a better word)' era weapons of that design can be quite attractive, the MP-5 Ein posted looks just plain pretentious.
Let's not mention the gold AK *throws up*

For such a weapon only one as truely devoted as I deserves the right to wield its shinny quick to distortness!

I agree with batman. That design looks better on guns from the mid 19th century. That MP-5K looks like something out of the Wild Wild West movie.

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote::drool: I want one...

And this too.

I don't quote pics, dur

Dead Man's Sub Machine Gun!

It has to do with this western show made in BC called "Dead Man's Gun, wicth is about a Colt Revolver that has a tendancy of bringing Death and Destrution on those who weild it.

Wouldn't a gold Ak be kinda, well, heavy, and as other's have pointed out quick to distort?

So this is Sd.net's answer to "what do you get the terrorist who has everything?."

Illuminatus Primus wrote:Aint an AK-47. Its an AK-104.

IIRC the AK-104 has a solid stock. That's a AKMS.

darthdavid wrote:Wouldn't a gold Ak be kinda, well, heavy, and as other's have pointed out quick to distort?

If memory serves, that gun is gold plated.

Grand Admiral Thrawn wrote:IIRC the AK-104 has a solid stock. That's a AKMS.

The AK104 does have a folding stock: It also has black polymer furnature instead of wood, uses AK74-style plastic magazines, and has a scope mounting rail: so I agree that the weapon in qin the pics is an AKMS

The AK-10x carbine series are the only ones that length (AK-74U is shorter, all of the others are longer, and the ribbed metal magazine means its a 7.62 x 39 mm, which had no carbines except the 104).

The AKMS has a sloped gas tube like all of the full-length AKs. Definitely an AK-104 due to the length and gas tube. I'm sure when one's able to customize the weapon with gold plating they can request a folding stock and the wood furniture.

Compare:

Third Image From Top, AKMS, notice sloped gas tube and barrel length

AK-104, notice straight, short gas tube and short barrel

Mystery AK, notice barrel length and gas tube length and lack of slope; only significant differences are the change of stock and hand grip, and the removal of the bell-mouthed flash hider

I stick by the AK-104 analysis because I don't think such a fancy weapon would be purchased belonging to such an ancient design, and I consider the removed flash-hider, altered handgrip, and altered stock much less radical design changes from the a much shorter barrel and gas tube (which lacks the distinctive slope to the muzzle in full-length AKs).

Meh... Maybe it's a completely custom job. I did some googling, and it seems this is all over the Web. Apparently, this gold-plated AK was found in one of Saddam's palaces, along with some 250 other gold-plated weapons (including gold-plated SVDs: see pic below), which seemed to serve a mainly ornimental function. Note the Arabic text and Iraqi Coat of Arms on the foregrip.

Illuminatus Primus wrote:The AK-10x carbine series are the only ones that length (AK-74U is shorter, all of the others are longer, and the ribbed metal magazine means its a 7.62 x 39 mm, which had no carbines except the 104).

The AKMS has a sloped gas tube like all of the full-length AKs. Definitely an AK-104 due to the length and gas tube.

It can't be a -104, for several reasons.

1. The flash-hider is completely different.
2. The AKMS stock
3. The AKMS trigger group (the handgrip has a slightly different shape, and the bottom of the trigger guard is flat, whereas it slopes up in an AK-104.)
4. The two-piece handgrip, which is a single piece in an AK-104.
5. The AKMS magazine.

The entire gun looks like an AKMS, except for the barrel and forward sight. It's likely that they just swapped those parts out for the equivalent AK-104 parts (no idea why though)