Sep 23, 2015 • 28M

The AK-47, a weapon so simple, even a child can use it - and they do

 
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It’s the world’s most famous weapon, popular with soldiers, insurgents and video gamers alike. As many as 100 million of the world's guns are descended from Mikhail Kalashnikov's original Avtomat Kalashnikova, first prototyped in 1947. How many lives they've taken is unknown.


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