Kalashnikov’s AK-47 (“the automatic Kalashnikov” and the year it won a Soviet design competition, 1947) is arguably the world’s most abundant firearm. Advertisement.

The inventor of the iconic AK-47 automatic rifle, Mikhail Kalashnikov, has died. Kalashnikov's simple, durable and easily maintained gun became the world's most popular rifle, with more than 100 ...

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 ...

Mikhail T. Kalashnikov, credited as the inventor of the AK-47 in the Soviet Union, died at age 94, multiple media outlets have reported. ... The AK-47 has a rate of fire of 600 rounds-a-minute ...

The AK-47 was that weapon. (Though Kalashnikov was always credited as the sole designer of the AK-47, this may have been Soviet propaganda—an effort to make a hero out of an individual who had ...

The AK-47 — “Avtomat Kalashnikov” and the year it went into production — is the world’s most popular firearm, favored by guerrillas, terrorists and the soldiers of many armies.

Mikhail Kalashnikov, the Soviet inventor and namesake of the world's most popular gun, the AK-47, died Monday. He was 94. Born into a peasant family in Siberia, Kalashnikov was at one point a ...

LAS VEGAS — The famous Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifles have been made in frigid Moscow since their inception 69 years ago. Soon, they’ll be made in sunny Florida, too. Kalashnikov USA has ...

Kalashnikov, creator of the AK-47, a cheap, simple, rugged assault rifle that became the weapon of choice for more than 50 standing armies as well as drug lords, street gangs, ...

FILE - DECEMBER 23, 2013: Mikhail Kalashnikov, Inventor Of Kalashnikov Assault Rifle, Dies At 94 IZHEVSK, RUSSIA - NOVEMBER 23: Mikhail Kalashnikov, the father of the world's most popular assault ...