PTR 91 vs. AK 47 - which should I chose?

[dswancutt]

I have no experience with an AK, but did own a HK91 before I sold it to buy a M1A.
It was a reliable gun, but I found the gun heavy, lackluster accuracy, strange ergonomics with an odd recoil. It's also hard on brass if you reload and as stated before, ejects the brass into a low earth orbit.

 

[Arik]

I must add for all these many years when the first ak arrived here I never wanted one. In the later years the converted ones from full auto to semi auto by the meat cutters, butcher's at century arms looked like some were dragged on the gravel roads. While others had poor fitting wood.
When I seen the brand new Russian izmash saiga sportier in the american calibers I jumped on the 308. I have no regrets buying this one.

They were never converted from full to semi auto. Way way back in the early 90s Norinco imported some that were full auto but not legally. Century imports semi auto only and always has, so has everyone else. For an AK to be full auto it needs what's called a 3rd pin. For this the receiver must be drilled. Once that hole is made the rifle is forever and ever considered a machine gun is will be illegal. There is no way around it. You cannot plug that hole and you cannot weld it closed. Even if someone did it will still be considered a machine gun until the receiver is completely destroyed by the ATF. Even if you take out all the full auto parts it is still a machine gun and still illegal. No loopholes no nothing. It's either a legal semi auto without the 3rd pin or its not. The 3rd pin automatically makes it a machine gun regardless of how it actually function. Even without the barrel and everything else....the receiver just by itself. ...still a machine gun!

What Century imports are rifles that are built from the ground up on semi auto only receivers. The trunions, furniture, barrels, sights are military but the receiver is made specifically for US to be semi auto and single stack. When the rifle gets here Century open up the magwell to accept a double stack mag and swap enough 922r parts to make it legal. Otherwise if they wanted to import it as a double stack it would have to come in as a sporter, like the Saiga.

LEGAL

ILLEGAL