Gold AK-47

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2004-07-19 09:03am

Linky Link

I really want one of those

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2004-07-19 09:10am

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]

Post by **Vympel** » 2004-07-19 09:52am

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

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2004-07-19 10:22am

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

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2004-07-19 03:38pm

:drool: I want one...

And this too.

Spice Runner · Post by **Spice Runner** » 2004-07-19 05:48pm

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

does it come with gold bullets too?

Batman · Post by **Batman** » 2004-07-19 05:56pm

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*

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2004-07-19 06:00pm

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

Spice Runner · Post by **Spice Runner** » 2004-07-19 06:25pm

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.

Zor · Post by **Zor** » 2004-07-19 11:39pm

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.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-07-19 11:45pm

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

Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-07-19 11:48pm

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

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2004-07-20 06:42pm

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

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

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-07-20 07:54pm

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.

Ma Deuce · Post by **Ma Deuce** » 2004-07-20 08:48pm

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

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2004-07-21 01:42am

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).

Ma Deuce · Post by **Ma Deuce** » 2004-07-21 03:06am

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.

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2004-07-21 08:29pm

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)