But here’s the kicker : if a gun is precise, bullet and barrel must be manufactured to extremely tight tolerances, and it has to be cleaned to ten times shinier than the queen’s jewels or it’ll jam at the first shot*. In a normal long distance rifle (which is precise at about 200m), one grain of sand, whether on the barrel, on the bullet or even on the casing will jam the gun. It’s bulets leave the barrel precise to within about 3 arc seconds.

The AK-47 never jams. If you fill it with desert sand it will probably still fire. You don’t really need to clean it, it has such large tolerances. The barrel gets hot really fast though, so while the first bullet comes precise to within 15 arc DEGREES, the average bullet has only 30 arc degrees of precision.

So if you’re firing an AK-47 at a target straight ahead of you, 10 meters. A comrade of you is standing a meter ahead of you, and a meter to the side (not what you’d think is a particularly danguerous position). The target has nothing to worry about, no bullet will get him, but your comrade will get blown to bits.

That’s why it’s a terrorist weapon. It’s usable at 1-5 meters, after that you’ll most likely only kill your comrades. It’s a weapon used to exterminate large groups of people from VERY short distances, and it tends to make more friendly fire fatalities than enemy fatalities. At 10 meters distance you’re completely safe from an AK-47, while the weapon the Israeli’s use (which is a modifiable compromise between precision and fastshooting, combined with some modern technology) is quite useable at 50 meters, and there is a “long distance” model that can get you 200 meter range.

It’s amazing just how much weaker all “dangerous” weapons get after even a little bit of distance. Then again, at 1.3 km distance, and not being an idiot, you can survive a 200 megaton blast easily, so I guess this goes for every weapon existing.

But then again, it’s cheap as hell.

* if you jam a bullet in a sharpshooters rifle, you can throw that rifle away, the barrel is too deformed to ever let another bullet pass

You don’t use an AK 47 if you want to hit something from distance, you use a rifle.
Whos to say he was linked to a terrorist group, the fact is you can still commit a terrorist act alone.

I have no idea why you put quote marks around the word ‘death’, but I get the feeling you would like to call it something else.

I’ll just leave this with saying the family did a great thing.