Century Arms Faces $5 Million Class-Action Lawsuit

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3. Specifically, the suit alleges

that if a blithering idiot or someone *trying* to cause a negligent discharge partially disassembles the rifle with a round in the chamber, then forces the safety lever past its normal range of motion, this can disable this safety. Or, forcibly bending a part and permanently damaging the rifle in order to get the same thing to happen. That's crap.

I used to own a Century AK (SAR-1), which I posted about at length on DU. It had one of the most robust safety systems I've ever seen on a civilian rifle, much more secure than what you'll typically see on a bolt-action, lever-action, or a lot of pistols. It takes a very, very deliberate effort to move it off-safe.

Yes, this is frivolous, and claiming to represent AK owners as a "class" is ridiculous. Most of us would be dead-set against this contemptible lawsuit, which is very transparently intended to pull civilian AK's from the market.