So nothing else than illegal copy-cats with the shame label "Made in USA", i hope they sue the shit out off them and it ends like it should end to big blow back to those fools.
Seems to me that this American company has bought the rights to import Kalashnikovs into the US... a deal that was almost ruined by US bans on imports.
They are getting around the ban by producing the rifles in the US, with presumably some sort of contract with Kalashnikov for royalties.
It basically means Kalashnikov gets around the US government ban and sells weapons to Americans.
the fact that they will be made in the US just means Kalashnikov wont have the costs of making them and shipping them and will just receive money for their sales.
Oh yeah, those evil copycats, fooling the poor russians who would never dare to rip-off anything themselves *cough*stg-44*cough*
Hilarious attempt at trolling, that fails because it is widely accepted even in the biased west that the Stg-44 is the design basis of the FN FAL and if you had to find a Soviet rifle with a similar mechanism design it would be the SKS... which is of course a scaled down version of the PTRS-41 which actually predates the Stg-44 by three years.
On the other hand if you were looking for copying there were several German automatic rifles that were rubbish and used the Bang recoil method G-41M and G-41W and then the German forces met Tokarev rifles in combat and their next iteration, G-43, has a Tokarev gas system and the rifles go from mediocre to acceptable in performance terms.
Why, of course they're unrelated. Just like B-29 and Tu-4
The Tu-4 is an unlicenced copy of the B-29, though it did have rather better engines and guns.
Naturally, it's completely incomprehensible that stg, being for all intents and purposes an experimental rifle, could have different iterations of operating mechanism, at least in paper.
Yeah, of course, they had an AK design, but chose to go with an inferior heavier design with the actual service model...
And of course, all those soviet designers with huge experience and reputation (tokarev, shpagin, degtyariov) could in no way exceed a hardly literate nobody (mikhail kalashnikov) in designing the best rifle in the world at the time.
They all had competing designs that were rejected.
Funny how they selected the AK on its merits rather than the education level or social status of its designer...
The only reason why the company is saying they approve is because they cant do anything about it, and suing wont work, so they are trying to save face instead. In your first article, the company stated they dont care what the Kalashnikov company says if they agree or not, as thry were not looking for approvals. So this still stands as a cheap knockoff of the real ones and that this is pure plagerism. But, they can do that. Only thing is, the name the company can get sued for.
Why would they refuse permission to produce the rifles in the US? They are losing a lot of money with the US import ban... why not get a bit back in royalties?
Personally I think it is pretty dumb to buy a US made AK... a bit like buying a French made AR-15... but what do I know.
Yes, in a true baltic spirit, I must bash anything related to russia, nothing personal
So you are basically trolling and living up to a stupid stereotype.
AS-42 was closer to STG-44 than AK-47
The PTRS-41 has an identical mechanism to the Stg-44.
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those weapons will swoop the market. 
How can u call it like that? There is a version it about it's name. WW2 gave birth to many interesting small weapons. Weapon designing was hit and miss, now we know everything, we have precise calculations, simulations and designs of today are boring 