I wish I could afford a new truck, I'd love to get an AK.
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I'm certain I've heard about this at least a year ago, but the news story appears to be covering a recent promotion. Thus, I have to suspect that this type of promotion has been used more than once.
...eventually, we will reach a maximum entropy state where nobody has their own socks or underwear, or knows who to ask to get them back.
Awww man, I could really use a gun too!
More like giant cherries
I could have sworn that I heard about something like this years ago.
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They're doing it wrong.
Buy The Communist Manifesto and The Anarchist's Cookbook, get an AK-47 free!
Or maybe buy the Koran, get a free suicide bomb.
edited 12th Nov '10 7:52:20 PM by Shichibukai
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I remember there was a bank that gave a free gun if you opened an account.
A brighter future for a darker age.
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Would that be the bank at the start of Bowling For Columbine?
They see me troll'n
I'd go for a Colt 1911.
My other signature is a Gundam.
What about for people who don't need a gun? Can they resell it for anything?
If it weren't for those durned liberals and their durned anti-gun laws that make selling guns so durned hard!
edited 12th Nov '10 8:36:59 PM by TheyCallMeTomu
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What about for people who don't need a gun? Can they resell it for anything? The article says if they don't want a gun, they can get a cash return.
Basically, it's $400 dollars off the truck with which you are encouraged to buy an AK 47
...eventually, we will reach a maximum entropy state where nobody has their own socks or underwear, or knows who to ask to get them back.
I see the Awesomeness.
I'm not entirely sure why he's giving out tickets for AKs if he's trying to claim veteran support. You'd think he'd either give out something by the US or at least something chambered in a NATO standard round.
Fight smart, not fair.
AKs are cheaper.
edited 13th Nov '10 12:39:40 AM by Malph
^ And vastly more reliable.
Sapere Aude
Americans get all the cool stuff. Damn. I wished I lived there. 
AK's, bah... when they start handing out rail guns, let me know.
Is that cake frosting?
What's the point, really? That gun is entirely useless for hunting, and probably unsuited for personal protection too - I am no gun expert, but it just seems both cumbersome and overkill.
Assuming that a prospective truck buyer is not planning to establish their personal fiefdom in Somalia, why should he or she be even remotely interested in getting an AK-47 with it?
edited 13th Nov '10 6:39:41 AM by Carciofus
But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
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Shoot Anti-Gun activists and Democrats. 
^^^ The AK-47 series is effectively the best assault rifle on Earth. It's crazy reliable, easy to use and deadly effective at the ranges it was intended for (less than 200 meters).
Sure it's not as accurate as NATO weapons, but it's durability and reliability will trump the AR-15 series and everything in it in the same categories 10 times out of 10.
Also maintaining one is absurdly cheap. You barely need to clean an AK if it didn't rust any.
edited 13th Nov '10 6:51:23 AM by MajorTom
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Why do you need a gun when driving a truck? Oh wait, it happens in the US, so logic is not required.
"That said, as I've mentioned before, apart from the helmet, he's not exactly bad looking, if a bit...blood-drenched." - juancarlos
Is that cake frosting?
^^Yeah, but it is, well, an assault rifle. I have no expertise on this matter, but I get the impression that personal protection has entirely different requirements: for example, you don't really care as much about rate of fire or range, but you want to be able to load and ready the gun relatively quickly, reduce collateral damage to a minimum and be able to use the weapon effectively in close quarters - and without the amount of training that military personnel undergo.
Again, I really don't know much about that; but would really something like the AK-47 be a better anti-burglar weapon than, I don't know, a light, good-quality pistol?
edited 13th Nov '10 7:09:52 AM by Carciofus
But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
Yes. The AK-47 was designed for the kind of warfare seen heavily in urban environments on the Eastern Front. Chiefly the dominance of submachineguns in pistol calibers like the PPSH-41.
A pistol vs an AK at any significant range further than fist distance is a losing proposition for the pistol. The same holds true for any rifle.
The AK is also easier to learn than any pistol short of 19th century revolvers like the Colt Single Action Army. All you do is insert the magazine flip down the safety level that impedes the charging handle, pull the charging handle back and you're ready to rock and roll. You can learn to fire it properly in about an hour. Learn to field strip it and care for it in about an afternoon's worth of time.
Few weapons are so easy to use that a kid could learn it like the AK does. The AR-15 series requires special training for proper use of the gun and frequent cleaning. The AK needs no such babying.
I'm not entirely sure why he's giving out tickets for A Ks if he's trying to claim veteran support. You'd think he'd either give out something by the US or at least something chambered in a NATO standard round. Because American servicemen can appreciate all forms of firepower.
You don't buy an AK because you need one you fools, you get one because you want one and assault rifles are fun to shoot. Some of the posters in this thread are just assuming its not fun for anybody to shoot shit up at a range in their spare time. People don't buy those guns because they need them for protection or plan to use them for hunting, they plan on using them for fun.
Wow, that's...a different way to sell trucks.
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