Seriously though, I know JRA has a mediocre rap, but $849 RPK is appealing to my pocketbook.
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A semi-automatic version of the Zastava M72. The M72 was a gas-operated, air-cooled, drum-fed, selective fire, shoulder-fired weapon with a bipod. It was originally used as a squad automatic weapon, like the Soviet RPK but has unique design features such as the heavy finned barrel allowing for...
www.classicfirearms.com
I mean it's not BAD if you price it out.
If you buy from Classic, you pay tax and shipping on the rifle, which brings it to about $950 OTD (the rifle is oversize UPS and not cheap to ship). You get a rifle that doesn't have a chrome lined barrel (AFAIK) and has mismatching parts.
If you get a matching kit for $300, 16" chrome lined barrel for $159, Childers custom receiver for about $139, and have it built by Two Rivers Arms, you are looking at about $1100 OTD. You get a matching RPK carbine with chrome lined barrel for about $150 more. It's also easy to have an optics side rail welded on.
Really comes down to what you want to do with the rifle... shoot it around for a while and dump it, maybe make a couple bucks or break even, and add it to the list of shit you regret selling... or have a badass carbine built the way you want but probably won't get your money back out of (at least not in this political environment, but guns shouldn't be purchased based on speculation, IMO).