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Huh?

I thought they are common.

is making 100 million of them rare?

I think assu talks about modern usage. And I thought they were rather common in small, post-soviet countries, and some other ones.

Aren't they still very common? Even in other countries than post-Soviet ones.

5 million milled AK type 3, 10 million AKM,[8] 5 million AK-74[9]15-20 million Chinese Type 56[10]

3 million Yugoslav Zastava M70, 2 million East German Mpi

Several million Egyptian Maadi

The devil is in the detail. AKMs aren't AK-47s. People refer to the entire AK family as AK-47, but technically speaking only the first three versions in Soviet usage are proper AK-47s and feature milled parts.

The later mass production model that saw actual widespread use and was exported was the stamped steel AKM, not the more complex AK-47. Not to mention later iterations and foreign production that copy the AKM.

So, no, original Soviet AK-47s are quite rarer than you might suspect.

As usual, it's all about definitions when it comes to assu.