The AK-47, that fearsome weapon of mass destruction lugged by everyone from the Taliban and the Vietcong to Sylvester Stallone and Dianne Feinstein, is being put to use in an entirely new racket: bike ...

Few firearms have shaped global history as profoundly as the AK-47. Designed in the aftermath of World War II, this rifle emerged from a world exhausted by industrial conflict and hungry for ...

FILE- In this Wednesday, Oct. 29, 1997 file photo Mikhail Kalashnikov shows a model of his world-famous AK-47 assault rifle at home in the Ural Mountain city of Izhevsk, 1000 km (625 miles) east of ...

While the AK is Kalashnikov’s most famous design, the PKM is definitely his best. Mikhail Kalashnikov is known for creating the AK rifle, but his contributions to Soviet firearms design didn’t end ...

The compact automatic rifle that Stalin's engineers unveiled in 1947 didn't look like much of a gun. The result of a secret design contest, its components were simple, inelegant, workmanlike. Its ...

The AK-47 was designed after World War II by the Soviets, who issued the guns to the communist army's conscripted forces. In the past few decades, the AK-47 has become one of the weapons of choice for ...

A statue of the inventor of the AK-47 assault rifle featured an embarrassing mistake: it accidentally included a diagram of a German World War II assault rifle. The mistake, which was quickly ...

Mikhail Kalashnikov%2C father of the AK-47%2C is dead The Russian weapon designer was 94 He once aspired to design farm equipment MOSCOW (AP) — Mikhail Kalashnikov, whose work as a weapons designer ...

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