User blog comment:JoeRamirez/Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Weapons Wishlist./@comment-2089069-20110618095101/@comment-356904-20110618095617

That was a waste of a perfectly good explanation.

The simpler explanation is that Activision thinks the average gamer is too stupid to tell different AKs apart, if they even know there's an AK other than the 47.