Thread:DalesRV/@comment-40060194-20190716080228/@comment-36188266-20190716082418

You do make some good points. The reason I think it's a pre-war weapon isn't necessarily its advanced design, but the fact that it's difficult to maintain. Typically, weapons that are made post-war, like the bastard or the duplet, are designed for easy maitanance and mass production, much like the original AK-47 was. It just doesn't seem practical to develop a gun that is harder to maintain than a Kalash, when its preformance is only marginally better. I'm no firearms expert, but the gun does resemble some real world firearms I've seen, so it could be based on one of those weapons, but an original gun like the Kalash 2012. The crude welding could just be from repairs, or some of the guns were indeed built after the apocalypse based on the small number of original guns they did have. I'm fairly certain the original design, however, was made before the war. We could remove that information all together, or see what the rest of the wiki thinks?