My son showed up at the house with an AK he did not care for Left it in my safe and went home with one of my ARs. I never cared much for them till I got this one and it has proven to be a fun gun. Most of the military guys at the range are familiar with them so no reaction when I fire it. The "civilians " are either Rambo types and love it or question what I am doing with an almost machine gun! The gun was made to use junk ammo. It has yet to fail to function on any surplus ammo I've used in it.