{"id":71514,"date":"2017-03-16T11:21:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T15:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=71514"},"modified":"2017-03-16T11:21:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T19:58:17","slug":"american-ak-7-62x39mm-century-c39v2-full-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/american-ak-7-62x39mm-century-c39v2-full-review\/","title":{"rendered":"An All-American AK? The 7.62x39mm Century C39V2 \u2013 Full Review."},"content":{"rendered":"
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The C39V2 from Century Arms is a U.S.-made milled receiver AK in 7.62x39mm. The variant tested featured Magpul furniture.<\/p><\/div>\n

For more information, visit https:\/\/centuryarms.biz\/proddetail.asp?prod=RI2400-N&cat=134<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To purchase a C39V2 on GunsAmerica.com, click this link: https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/Search.aspx?T=C39V2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Back in the good ol\u2019 day, if you were in the market for an SKS or AK rifle, your market choices were from places like China, Egypt or Yugoslavia. In the post-Cold War days, it could be from the former USSR (or a satellite state). And prices were not high. You could buy an SKS for just over $100.00, and a semi-auto AK could be yours for around $300.00 or so.<\/p>\n

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The C39V2 employs a heavy-duty milled-steel receiver. Image courtesy of manufacturer.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The C39V2 is a solid, American-made AK available right now. Image courtesy of manufacturer.<\/p><\/div>\n

As it tends to do in the gun world, the U.S. government set out to fix a problem that did not exist, starting with the 1989 importation ban. This ban named some guns that were \u201cbad,\u201d and made them illegal to import. This was the source of the ubiquitous (and hated) \u201cthumbhole\u201d stocks for AKs and similar rifles. In addition, in the 1990s, most Chinese-made Norinco firearms and ammunition were banned under a trade relations status. That dried up a major source of affordable ComBloc gear.<\/p>\n

As a result of the 1989 importation ban, there is the whole issue of 922(r) compliance, which specifies that you cannot build a semi-automatic gun with more than 10 imported parts from a designated list. These 20 parts are as follows:<\/p>\n

\"An<\/a>These regulations all added up to produce a few unintended consequences. First and foremost, a plethora of U.S. companies sprang up to make parts on the \u201cbad list.\u201d The result was guns being made from a combination of imported and domestically made parts. However, the supply of imported parts has been drying up in recent years, with the effect of raising prices and limiting supply. To answer demand for AK-style rifles here in the United States, some manufacturers set about the difficult task of developing full domestic production of AK rifles. One of these companies is Century Arms, and they are offering their own line of Red Army stamped receiver RAS47<\/a> rifles (see our full review here: https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/the-new-american-made-ak-the-ras47\/<\/a>) and milled receiver Red Army C39V2<\/a> rifles in 7.62x39mm. I recently had an opportunity to try out one of the latter for myself.<\/p>\n

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Anyone familiar with a standard AK will be right at home with the C39V2.<\/p><\/div>\n

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