Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "The PSA AK-74 is back for REDEMPTION" video.

@brendenlogue Many PSA products are not reliable out of the box, either requiring the use of the warranty or the user to understand and diagnose the system to fix it.
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@w_stew8912 The thing that usually defines "domestic" is the source of the bolts, trunnions, etc. If you buy kits from abroad (essentially made on equipment that dates back to the Cold War) and manufacture the receiver and barrel in the US, people usually refer to them by country of origin. What people call "true" domestic AKs essentially had to start from scratch rather than just refurbish Soviet equipment. This lead to issues due to early attempts with cast trunnions/bolts as domestic producers did not want to invest in forging. There were also US made milled trunnions and receivers but those were on the expensive side back then. Jim Fuller used those, if I'm remembering correctly.
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Same.
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@brendenlogue I believe that. I know of three people who had front sight blocks incorrectly installed which caused the weapons to be undergassed. I talked to an outright PSA shill who ended up admitting that one may need to fix one or two things out of the box and that he only used PSA for parts and built the rifles himself to skip the hassle of incorrect builds. He also admitted to having sent back two uppers for being off spec. I've probably come across a hundred people who never had any issues with PSA and I don't know about their success stories, but it's still uncomfortable to think that a company is essentially skipping QC and saving the money by assuming most shooters don't put enough rounds through their weapons to see a problem. And then I see people advocating for their rifles, or just the parts, as a way to save money and if something is off just activate the warranty. If everyone did that, they'd go out of business. The people paying for the cheap parts are the Americans who sadly are not educated enough about the weapon system to realize there might be problems. Unfortunately my cynicism just sees an exploitative business model where some bean counter came up with a formula to make money off people who might not know any better.
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@ALovelyBunchOfDragonballz The secret is letting others get suckered into buying first gen. If a product can't survive the first gen issues, it probably didn't deserve to exist.
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@ALovelyBunchOfDragonballz Like I said, if they had one shot to fake it till they made it with the second or third gen, and they blew it... It deserved to die off.
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@ALovelyBunchOfDragonballz If you can't monetize your teething problems you're pretty bad at your first run. If your product could succeed, it would be better in the hands of a company that knows what they're doing.
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@w_stew8912 Brandon didn't have domestic AKs.
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