do i have your attention now but speaking of talking about guns in a safe and healthy manner that leads us over to uscca who's the sponsor of today's video if you carry a gun every day like i do i would definitely consider checking out uscca they're a great group i'll leave the links down in the description and in the pinned comment but their primary purpose is to give you the training tools and education needed for you to feel comfortable carrying on a daily basis great organization like i said i'll leave the links down there now let's talk about this uh double folder but specifically the fact that it's chinese ew ah but stop that asian hate because i'll ak guys actually really like chinese guns mostly because they're they're collectible as PROFANITY_TOKEN because they were banned from import in the NUMBER_TOKENs thanks bill clinton so while we've been having problems recently with like different uh sanctions and you know bans on russian imports and all sorts of PROFANITY_TOKEN from all over the world uh the chinese guns have been banned since before a lot of you guys were born which has made guns like this extremely sought after hell the mac NUMBER_TOKENs were like NUMBER_TOKEN throwaway guns when i was first getting into this stuff and now those are going for you know uh almost a thousand bucks now and those are the ones with like the the weird thumb hole stocks and everything not not in the the cool configurations like this those were like the plain jeans sporters anyway i'm gonna get off that soapbox of government bad re brandon how can you tell when an ak is made in china but for one it says made in china PROFANITY_TOKEN now there are a couple of cosmetic telltale signs so let's start at the front of the gun that just seems ecological place to start we have our front sight post our front sight block rather uh the chinese guns really liked hooded front sights so the traditional ak you kind of have this like sideways c right you've got the two different wings of the front sight post with an open top on the chinese guns they complete that and it's a total circle all the way around with a little hole cut up top so you can still access and adjust your front sight post don't know why they chose to do that maybe for integrity but pretty much all of them do another possible giveaway here is you've got a vented gas tube the chinese were not the only ones who did that that's usually another very chinese thing angry cops you're going to like this one a lot moving to the front trunnion this is a stamp gun so it does have a front trunnion immediately you see the visible section of it that is sticking up past the receiver is squared off this is a section that the barrel pin is drilled through and pressed through now when you see a square part of the front trunnion like this that doesn't have any sort of recess or cutaway or anything immediately you either think chinese and or hugo well i guess also technically uh albanian but albanian and chinese are kind of it's it's complicated but the even bigger giveaway is the rivet pattern you see this you've got a magwell
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