Kirk Freeman
Grandmaster
This is good to know. I've used an AK in only one class (carbine/pistol with Louis, maybe my 4th or 5th time through), so my experience with it limited at best. I have to admit that I do not rotate an AK so the ejection port is toward the ground when I rack the charging handle. I have to reach over the top with my left hand because I can't reach things very well going underneath like most people advocate. Stupid gun needs its charging handle on the left side where it belongs.
It is such a black swan event that I had second thoughts about raising it on INGO least I trigger my fellow INGOers, but I think it is important to know that it can happen and that because of the dimensions of the AK receiver (and the dull ammo, blah, blah, blah) one needs protocols to mitigate this danger (even though as a percentage of malfunctions it is very low--low risk, high stakes kind of thing).