and we definitely need some more fashionable gear - those polo shirts are cool, but the regular t-shirts on the site seem quite bland.

and the instructor’s ak-47 was single shot only, bobby, as you point out. i asked specifically if it were fully automatic (machine gun), but she assured me it was only semi automatic - one shot with each squeeze of the trigger. to me, they look somehow cheap - i’m not sure why. her’s was made in china, and is like the type pictured, with the fold-away stock. i noticed on some of the websites featuring ak-47’s that there’s many different types.

and the target pistol shown is only an approximation of the pistol she had - hers was customized to her hand, and i think she said it was a walther. but it looked somewhat like the one above. but yeah, the high end target pistols are very cool. even the high end airguns have that futuristic look.

all told, there were probably 10 or 15 weapons there, and only 5 people, so we each brought a few. i didn’t think to bring my 12 gauge shot gun or 22 rifle - i guess i was thinking “pistols”, so i only brought my 9mm and 22.

http://phoenixpinkpistols.org/

http://www.pinkpistols.org/stuff.html

Weird! They must have got new ones… anyway, we are going to do our own fashion line soon so it’s up to you if you want to wait.

Han Solo’s blaster is a broomhandle Mauser with a flash-suppressory kind of thing on the barrel and a ’scope: save up your lunch money and you could make a working replica! It is shaped like the drawing you posted, maybe a bit bigger. High-end .22 target pistols all have that ray-gun esthetic right out of the box, don’t they?

For the comfort of the hoplophobic, you might point out that unless your instructor has ponied up the $200 Federal tax (after passing a careful background screening), letter to local chief law enforcement officer, etc. (plus whatever State law applies), her “AK-47″ is *not* a military assualt rifle capable of fully-automatic fire (like a machine gun). Instead, it works just like a modern hunting rifle, one bullet per trigger press.

Uncle Sam has frowned on full-auto weapons in civilian hands since the 1930s, despite what folks may read elsewhere.

Most “AK-47s” in private hands in the US are not machine guns and cannot be made to operate that way without extensive, tricky and highly illegal modification.

…The civilian version is a very nice medium-powered rifle and highly reliable, even with very little maintenance. And it still has that Kalishnikov look.