Swiss Miss-tery AK | Swiss Bubba Trainwreck or “Tanker Model”? | Hungarian AK-55 | Waffen Sammlerborse 2025 | Lucerne, Switzerland | Swiss Gunshows Are Interesting

I’m at Waffen Sammlerborse 2025, which is a Swiss Gun Show. It’s an odd mix of SHOT Show, with its high-end manufacturers and impressively well-stock distributors and a local crappy gun show with Fudds, absurdly overpriced accessories and dusty war memorabilia of questionable authenticity.  Way smaller than SHOT but way bigger than a standard gun show.

Swiss citizens have access to a much wider range of firearms than US citizens (including full-autos with the right license), so there was some pretty cool stuff here and there.

Here I saw what looked like a Hungarian milled-receiver AK-55 with this unusual metal sphere attached to the front end of the receiver where the lower handguard is usually attached.  I believe the tag said it was a “tanker” if I remember correctly. Is that ball some kind of standard way to mount it to a receiver or is it a Swiss Bubba special?

Either way, the base rifle is pretty nice, it still has the auto-sear pin hole and original markings but I doubt that it is a full-auto. My understanding is that there are special rules for dealers when displaying full-autos that aren’t being met here. It is probably converted to semi-auto according to the rules in Switzerland, which are much less strict than those in the US.