They would be comparable to the US military M-16 vs. the civilian AR-15. Primary difference is the mode of fire. The civilian variants use authentic military kits except (and it's a BIG accept) the receiver. This has been permanently modified to fire only in the semi-automatic mode. They will also build civilian receivers from scratch, that never were designed for full auto fire. There are quite a few battle rifles on the market today that have been altered in this way. The H&K G-3 and L1A1 to name a couple. They even build a semi-auto version of the PPSh-41...a famous Russian sub-machine gun. For the collector with a taste for Cold War or WWII weapons history, these are great guns. As a Vietnam vet, I personally wouldn't mind having a real honest to goodness full auto authentic Russian AK.
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