The late 2000s-early 2010s /k/ was just comfy. The surplus market wasn't totally fucked. I got to witness the glory of the 79 dollar Moist Nugget. Straight out of the crate SKS were stupid affordable and if you wanted to be high speed, the Century VZ2008 imports were like 400 bucks. Ron Paul 2008 was going to make anime real. More people had KelTec Sub 2000s and Maverick 88s than ARs. The 7n6 spam cans became the stuff of legends and people were actually building 5.45 AR uppers just to take advantage of the low cpr. I think /k/ might have peaked when we were all following the Zimmerman trial.
That kind of community got fucked by the culture war kicking off and the aforementioned election tourists coming along.
This is more of a Chechen thing. Islamic sticker it is.