# What do "AK-47 people" like the Taliban think of American guns? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 21, 2021, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-ak-47-people-like-the-taliban-think-of-american-guns/949292 "2021-08-21T23:51:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2021, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-ak-47-people-like-the-taliban-think-of-american-guns/949292/21 "2021-08-24T18:23:34Z")
Yeah that can occur, the Springfield 1892 didn’t go into service until 1894 it looks like. The model as year of gun or cartridge fell out of fashion, nowadays it’s by metric length (9x19mm), or parent case (.25-06), older ones by grains of black powder (.45-70). Then there’s the .38 Special, which was named because of stupid reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2021, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-ak-47-people-like-the-taliban-think-of-american-guns/949292/22 "2021-08-25T00:33:45Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Okay, I think the context is clear even if the words weren’t, sorry that concerns you. The point is they would need a source of caliber replenishment, though if the same the repairable parts might also not be exchangeable. You didn’t address ammunition aspect in that element of your post, though, so no, it wasn’t clear from context at all. It just sounded like you made a broad assertion that turned out to be incorrect and possibly uninformed - did you even know the AK-74 existed? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-ak-47-people-like-the-taliban-think-of-american-guns/949292.md?page=1)