In memory of AK-47 mastermind

World Net Daily ^ | 12/26/2013 | Phil Elmore

[rktman]

His name was Mikhail Kalshnikov. He was 94 years old. He died this week a hero of Russia, having lent his name and his engineering skill to the most frequently vilified assault rifle design in the world.

Kalashnikov was, according to the BBC, born a peasant on the southern Siberian steppe. He had little formal education, but his innate mechanical abilities led him to design what he called a “weapon of defense” intended to protect his nation. That weapon was the AK-47.

[gundog]

I believe the VEPR is available in 30-06 and .270, with longer barrels.

[gundog]

If he copied the STG, I would think he’d have started out with a sheetmetal reciever. The underfolding stock of the MP-38 and -40 is kind of a no-brainer. If you look at an M-1 trigger group, you see similarities...but I wouldn’t bet on the M-1 with a fistful of sand in it.

[nascarnation]

This commercial is embedded in my brain from the 60s.

[Yo-Yo]

LOL, that's the commercial that they did live on air, and the watch got flung off the propeller blade.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NHq3Yze6s0

[nascarnation]

That’s awesome. He did a great job on live tv...
thanks!

[X Fretensis]

But he did in fact make it. Neither the Kraut or American designers came close to this weapon for simplicity or reliability. One does not see photos of STG-44s or Garands
worldwide, in the hands of millions of fighters. Good or bad, he is the man responsible for it.

[Flag_This]

"One does not see photos of STG-44s or Garands worldwide, in the hands of millions of fighters."

Neither the U.S. or Germany passed out their rifles (at low, low prices!) by the freighter-load to every third-world craphole like the russians and chi-coms did.

[2harddrive]

Thanks! I will check out those firearms!

[OneWingedShark]

> "One does not see photos of STG-44s or Garands worldwide, in the hands of millions of fighters."
>>
>> Neither the U.S. or Germany passed out their rifles (at low, low prices!) by the freighter-load to every third-world craphole like the russians and chi-coms did.

So, are you trying to say that other countries (or the people in them) should not have access to weapons?
If so, then what distinguishes us Americans from the thems?

Decent weapons at low, low prices aren't a bad thing in my book.

[Flag_This]

"So, are you trying to say that other countries (or the people in them) should not have access to weapons? If so, then what distinguishes us Americans from the thems?"

No that's not what I'm saying. The soviet union was giving away AKs and RPGs and everything else for the express purpose of advancing their ideology and gaining influence over various factions or countries. So to try and say that since those weapons are ubiquitous, that is somehow proof of their superiority to other weapons is not realistic. It's simply evidence that the soviet union and china cranked out tons and tons and tons of weapons and gave them away all over the world and other countries followed a different distribution model for their weapons.