Originally Posted by Ferich

You said that yourself. The AK47 was made by Kalashnikov, and it was made for Full Automatic fire and a restained rate to keep recoil down. It's the best known Automatic Firearm, EVER. The M-16A1 was designed for semi automatic fire, true, but it did fire Full Automatic, and it wasn't very good at that. It emptied a magazine quick, and recoiled like a Vibrator set on "Kill."