"Mystery weapon" in AFG

[DThurston]

OK - anyone want to take a stab at identifying this one?

From this post: Twitter / combatjourno: Also this mystery weapon was ...

 

[Cavman]

Iam going to guess an sbr ak47?

 

[DThurston]

Iam going to guess an sbr ak47?

That's the best I could come up with. Would have liked to see the other side.

 

[Blackhawk2001]

Looks like a Pakistani gunsmith-built AK hybrid to me

 

[Panama]

The quick version is that this weapon, a cross between an assault rifle and a submachine gun, appears to be a product of the gun shops of western Pakistan’s tribal borderlands, where gunsmiths have a long tradition of churning out idiosyncratic firearms that appropriate design elements from mainstream infantry arms.
For those who don’t know about this regional industry, one old but instructive post here includes a reprint of a 1962 article in Guns Magazine by William B. Edwards, a prominent firearms writer of his time. A BBC update from 2006 is here, with a telling opening quote: “There is nothing we cannot copy.”

Link to article;

Taliban Gun Locker: The Frankengun of Wardak Province - NYTimes.com

 

[DThurston]

Schweet - ask and ye shall receive (knowledge).
I love this board

 

[BE Mike]

I couldn't take my eyes off the cool sling!

 

[Mosinowner]

ask and ye shall receive (knowledge).

Unless your mosinowner, then you make the elitist angry.


Looks alittle small for 7.62x39

 

[.45 Dave]

Looks like a Pakistani gunsmith-built AK hybrid to me

DING DING--looks like a winner! Good job in ID'ing the gun Blackhawk!!

 

[.45 Dave]

I couldn't take my eyes off the cool sling!

LOL--looks like they made it from the Christmas ribbon of the box it was wrapped in!!

 

[jayhawk]

https://www.indianagunowners.com/forums/long_guns/228779-the_frankengun_of_wardak_province.html

Duped!

 

[DThurston]

https://www.indianagunowners.com/forums/long_guns/228779-the_frankengun_of_wardak_province.html

Duped!

Awww crap....missed that

IBTL

 

[Mosinowner]