Oh, and the SKS was designed by Simonov, not Kalashnikov. You are 100% right. My bad. I mostly agree with your assessment of the AR, but I was trying to give

Oh, and the SKS was designed by Simonov, not Kalashnikov. You are 100% right. My bad. I mostly agree with your assessment of the AR, but I was trying to give it a fair shake. Iraq and Afghanistan are really pretty terrible places to have a gun that's finicky about being cleaned, though.