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 ...

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 ...

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