Their piston JAKL rifle also has many issues. Any video I've seen from any guntuber who isn't a shill has mentioned problems with their JAKL, even if they still liked the rifle overall.
The first Gen JAKL absolutely had issues.
It's now essentially on Gen 1.5 or 1.75 and is a LOT better.
Still, it's an AK gas system mated to an AR bolt and screwed together.
I'm much more interested in their literal Gen 2 that's on a JAKL specific lower.
However if that thing is more than ~$1500-$1800 new then most will just bite the bullet and get a proven piston driven 5.56 rifle, aka Bren 2, Galil ACE (sigh even the obese Gen 2), B&T APC 5.56, maybe even a PWS.
We live in a weird time line, I'm not thrilled with PSA AKs... and an AK costs a lot more than AR I am getting old.
PSA AKs give you an import ban option for AKs that aren't IO literal shit / wannabe grenades.
Beyond that, don't pay more for a GF3 than Blem pricing and only get something nicer of it has the side folding stock.
Their problems along with the price makes picking one a poor decision. For the price of any of the so called AK-100 series PSA slop (which are copies of Bulgarian pattern SLR rifles) you could just pony up for a WBP jack for under a grand. There's no reason to take that kind of unnecessary risk on an American AK when it's a buyers market and all the end of the world panic buying shit is finally over. Even WASR prices are apparently starting to go down from $1000+ back down to the 800s. The market is healing, I hope cope.
Yeah but do they look like a AK-100 series? NOPE which is why I got mine lol.
Wpb is fine, and a WASR is arguably just as fine with SHIT furniture.
I might actually put my WASR into one of those fancy AK chassis then get a WPB for the nicer wood.
I know details of their ammo manufacturing operation and unless things have changed in the past year they are running on borrowed time. I hate to be all trust me bro you will have to believe me on this.
We'll see. Did you clock Anderson going under pre SHOT 2025?
But I literally cannot tell what any smoothed suppository on 4 wheels is now. My wife is better at it than I am. I'll point to a car on the road and be like, "Look at that goofy new mustang." and she'll be like, "I think that's a Cadillac."
Firearms, games, watches. All the cool stuff that had to live or die by it's personality are all getting sameified, because the vast majority is okay with the slop. They don't want some crazy artwork design, they want it to look like an AR, but this one has a differently shaped ejection port
Hehe say hi to FMVSS, NTHSA and the IIHS.
Safety regs lead to a homogeneity of safety cage/crash structure designs and even vehicle front end and hood shapes (stupid pedestrians killed pop up headlights)
Guns..... What's common sells so might as well make what's common eg. A Glock magazine compatible pistol and a AR mag compatible rifle. Those lead to the end products looking a lot like a Glock or AR.
Even piston driven rifles essentially have AR pattern or near AR pattern lowers these days.
As for watches, look into the wonderful world of micro brands/independent brands, they absolutely aren't afraid to just make "muh Rolex Sub clone #4" or similar.
That's what happens when the function is tied to the form unfortunately. Like mentioned above the same thing happened to the gun world: function is pretty much tied to the form so now we have AR 15 but with minor alterations
Yeah. Even stuff that's not an AR still probably have controls similar to an AR and a top mounted picatinney rail.
