Military personnel take part in the funeral of Mikhail Kalashnikov, chief designer of Izhmash Concern, a Russian firearms producer, in Mytischi outside Moscow, December 27, 2013. Russia buries assault ...

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 been ...

"The AK47, or Avtomat Kalashnikova in Russian, has been the world's most used automatic rifle since it was first introduced ...

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 ...

Police officer Tatiana Osetrova congratulates Mikhail Kalashnikov, the creator of the world's most popular assault rifle. November 23 marked the 55th anniversary of the release of the first ...

As AK-47 inventor Mikhail Kalashnikov neared death, the man whose gun became one of the world's most prolific killing machines wrestled with guilt from the countless lives taken with his invention, ...

The AK-308 weighs about 9 1/2 pounds with an empty 20-round magazine and has a dioptric sight and a foldable stock.

Mikhail Kalashnikov, the former Red Army sergeant behind one of the world’s most omnipresent weapons — the AK-47 and its variants and copies, used by national armies, terrorists, drug gangs, bank ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Mikhail Kalashnikov, the Russian designer of the AK-47 assault rifle which has killed more people than any other firearm in the world, died on Monday aged 94, officials said.

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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