{"id":4844,"date":"2011-01-25T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2011\/01\/25\/morally-outdated\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:13:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:13:05","slug":"morally-outdated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=4844","title":{"rendered":"Morally Outdated?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:18262,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.foxnews.com\\\/politics\\\/2011\\\/01\\\/21\\\/russian-defense-minister-causes-uproar-replace-famed-ak\\\/?test=latestnews&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.foxnews.com\\\/politics\\\/2011\\\/01\\\/21\\\/russian-defense-minister-causes-uproar-replace-famed-ak\\\/?test=latestnews&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>A few days ago the Russian Defense Minister, Anatoly Serdyukov, began a firestorm of controversy in Russia (and in the blogosphere) by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2011\/01\/21\/russian-defense-minister-causes-uproar-replace-famed-ak\/?test=latestnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">saying that the Kalashnikov and Dragunov SVDs sniper rifles are &#8220;morally outdated&#8221;. <\/a>He made it worse by saying he was thinking of buying foreign weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow I don&#8217;t think these guys in this recruiting video for the Russian airborne, the VDV (vozdushno-desantnie voiska), would agree. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oOaGgY2yUHw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I still like my AK-74 but think those blue berets and blue-striped undershirts are a little&#8230;uh, different.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T SayUncle<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago the Russian Defense Minister, Anatoly Serdyukov, began a firestorm of controversy in Russia (and in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2374],"class_list":["post-4844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ak-47"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6190,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844\/revisions\/6190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}