Silver Shogun Technical Question

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Development for Silver Shogun proceeds apace. I thought of a question I would run by folks here with more gun smithing knowledge than I have. Is it practical to rebore an AK-74 barrel (5.45mm) so that the barrel will fire 5.56N? I thought that one way the US could help pay for WW3 would be the sale of curios. By the end of December, 1996 there will be hundreds of thousands of AK-47 and AK-74 in NATO hands. It occurred to me that gathering these, shipping them back to the US, altering them so that they can’t fire on full auto, and selling them on the civilian market would be a good way to rake in some useful cash and get Americans excited. It then occurred to me that an American market with very limited access to 5.45B ammunition might be more inclined to purchase an AK-74 rebored and rechambered for 5.56N. The US government might sell them to enterprising individuals, who would then rebore the barrel, make the necessary alterations to the bolt, perhaps modify the magazine well so that the rifle would accept standard M-16 magazines, and eliminate the full auto feature.

A shop for doing this kind of work might very well appear in Las Vegas. Perhaps—perhaps—the market exists from 1995 onward. The PRC sells some of its captured Soviet equipment to the US, who then auctions off rifles for modification to appropriately licensed shops here in the US. That way when a flood of AK-74 falls into NATO hands in the last quarter of 1996, there is already a thriving industry for reboring and selling AK-74.

The question is whether reboring from 5.45B to 5.56N is practical. Any ideas?