Around what time could modern weapons (e.g. Milled AK's,

>>30999348
what's a liberty pole doing on that rifle?

>>30999421
Argentine?

>>30999348
You need good quality screw machines, standardized parts, assembly lines.

Between the world wars, maybe. But the metalurgy of the time wasnt nearly as good, and things like ARs rely on what was then a series exotic alloys and plastics. Glocks need some fairly advanced polymers too. AKs would be much easier, slav engineering is designed to work with the meanest of materials by and large.

>>30999515
Why couldn't AR and Glock designs be recreated in steel?

>>30999686
Second this question

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>>30999494
Coat of arms of Argentina? Yeah that makes sense, thanks

>>30999872
>a fucking hat on a stick

>>30999876
>62%

Shameless self bump

>>30999686
They could but glocks at least would need to be modified for the grip. Then both glocks and ARs would lose a lot in terms of weight and would require different furniture. Fore grips as we know them today would be a bit tricky since there's little aluminum, not the right alloys of it, and steel would make them pretty heavy.

The action itself could be done but there's a lot besides the action that makes the gun what it is. Once you go into steel, there are actually a lot of handguns at least that would be better examples.

A better question is if we had the designs and math of modern precision guns, how far back could we make them?

>>31000992
I doubt that modern guns could be made before smokeless powder was invented because the metallurgy technology just was not there. However, if you could turn the shitty steel of the day into decent steel, you may have a chance.

>>31000992
>if we had the designs and math of modern precision guns, how far back could we make them?
I think that's what OP wants to know too

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I feel like by the first decade of the 20th Century we could definitely have produced a rifle like the FAL. Very complicated autoloaders already existed; it was more a matter of engineering than materials science that prolonged the adoption of semi-auto rifles.

>>31002344
I agree

>>30999686

Well, the aluminum and plastic parts of the AR could be made from just about anything, so that's no issue.

I'd be concerned about the bolt, though. That was specified to be made of Carpenter 158 steel, which was some pretty hot shit back in the 1960s. That might have to be re-thought to be built with inferior metals.

Even the 8620 steel used on crappy bolts is probably far beyond the capabilities of the turn of the century.