Quote Originally Posted by Spiryt View Post
15th century European metallurgy and stuff was more than perfectly sufficient to make AK-47, even though it would be a bit of a fuzz, and of course mass production for 200$ each wouldn't be possible.

It's simply not any rocket science in any kind. Some metal containers, springs, levers....

Idea, knowledge, to form such working idea is everything, not technology per se.

Obviously no one, no matter how genius, is going to build AK-47-like something before modern cartridges, repetitive fire systems and so on aren't devised in the first place.
In fact to build upon what he said, I remember seeing a documentary one time showing a village in a tribal area of Pakistan which has traditionally been a center of a very archaic iron-working industry. Traditional sword and knife makers were making Ak-47s and RPK machine guns there using basically medieval forges and tools. The same guys had figured out how to make Muskets in the 19th Century during the British occupation of the area.

G.