Jam? Are we making a sandwich?
Yes, AKs do malfunction. Sometimes spectacularly.
Hey...I could do that with three rounds and a mallet! No jam...but look...Fig Newton's!
Jam? Are we making a sandwich?
Yes, AKs do malfunction. Sometimes spectacularly.
Welcome to INGO. Clearly, you are new here.Just because someone's a "terrorist" doesn't mean he's a weapons expert. Anymore than being an American gun owner makes you an expert.
Other than the five killed and eight wounded, yeah, didn't hit.
AKs do fail... Marine Nam vet told me a tale years ago about a VC that got the drop on him from behind in the jungle. He heard a noise behind him and he spun around to see this stunned VC frantically trying to clear a jam. This marine dropped him with his 45 and lived to tell the tale. He said he was the luckiest man in country that day!
What I get out of this...
1. While the AK does NOT run on black magic and therefore can well fail under circumstances conducive to doing so, one of its most endearing qualities is the lack of tight tolerances which unlike (especially the early) M16s, do not require being kept clean enough to appease a hospital administrator or board of health inspector in order to function without issue.
2. It sounds like the most likely explanation is a dumbass behind the trigger problem.
3. Possession of a gun, any gun, doesn't render you effectively armed any more than possession of an instrument makes you a musician.