Great information on the weapons. It explains a lot as to why I always heard the AK series had trouble with feeding/jamming. The sad thing is, I've also heard and seen that the AK series were meant to be tougher and more rugged than the soldiers that used them, to the point that Russian soldiers used to do pushups ON the AK's, with pressure being put on the grip and mag well (with mag inserted) and all. I've heard stories of guys putting 10,000 rounds through the AK, pulling it apart, dipping a shoe lace in used 10w-30 motor oil and running it through the barrel and slapping it back together and putting another 10k rounds through it. If you upgrade the internals a bit, put match grade barrel on one, with match ammo, I hear you can get quite a bit of accuracy out of them. 

As for the M-16's feeding and ammo problems, yeah... that I definitely knew about. That's why I went with the newer M16A1 for Eli. Chrome internals, forward assist, and the newest of the A1's also had the brass deflector. That's a little thing, but I don't feel like having 5.56 hickeys all the time. 

Great info all around, HeySeuss and RoadRash. 

I want to get both platforms when I get enough disposable income. I've been really really poor the last few years but that should be changing soon, which means I can start picking up some needs/wants that have a bigger pricetag. 

Edit: Posting now...