Re: AK-47 Operation Question

["Robert J. Hansen" <rjhansen@xxxxxxxx>]

> Partly true. The safety/fire selector blocks the last centimeter or so of 
> movement of the bolt handle (and thereby the bolt, as the two are fixed 
> together), so that you can pull it back to check if the chamber is empty, but 
> it can't go back far enough to strip a round from the magazine.

Stupid Q, but... I thought the AK fired from an open bolt.  That was
always my assumption, I admit, but given the general inaccuracy of the
AK action, I just took for granted that it was an open-bolt design.