A Firearms Legend Passes

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10 years 10 months ago - 10 years 10 months ago #33054 by jtallen83
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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 robbers, revolutionaries and jihadists — died Dec. 23 at a hospital in Izhevsk, Russia. He was 94.

www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/23/mikhail-kalashnikov

He very well may have been one of the most influential men in recent world history. Love him or hate him he was a firearms genius in the class of JMB. :usa:
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10 years 10 months ago - 10 years 10 months ago #33059 by dfc5343
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Byebye ya communist douche. That POS weapon has killed enough of my buds to hate him for a lifetime. Leave it to our balless society to adore and mourn a commie gun designer. I HATE him. He doesn't exist.
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10 years 10 months ago #33060 by jtallen83
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dfc5343 wrote: Byebye ya communist douche. That POS weapon has killed enough of my buds to hate him for a lifetime. Leave it to our balless society to adore and mourn a commie gun designer. I HATE him. He doesn't exist.


I fully understand your sentiment but I just can't blame the deaths on him, the politicians of both sides should bear that responsibility in full.

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10 years 10 months ago - 10 years 10 months ago #33064 by dfc5343
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Wondering what politicians and the media are doing is always above my paygrade. Times have changed. We are getting soft....like Rome in the final days. Immortalize our enemies and prosecute our GI's for doing a job they were trained to do. Its the initialed corporate generation. I have buried too many to even begin to respect any communist, terrorist or enemy of my country.
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10 years 10 months ago #33072 by faawrenchbndr
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Kill a Commie for Mommie!



Rest in peace Sir......

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10 years 10 months ago #33076 by Siscowet
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Kalisnakov's talent, like the Chinese today, was in borrowing the technology of others and adapting it for the Russian climate and the Russian peasant. No real innovation. He borrowed heavily from the Stormgewehr 44 and even from the M1 Garand trigger group in his design. Then he adapted it to the then current Russian Firearms manufacturing technology. John Browning? No way. Maybe Eugene Stoner, but Stoner had more unique solutions that weren't borrowed from other people.
He was the enemy, but a clever enemy.

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10 years 10 months ago #33077 by OleCowboy
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I am sure that when he developed the firearm his intentions were good. As for the AK, well its a great weapon by any standards. That said you cannot compare it to the AR and I have tried. Mostly the comparo's are threads on various forums started by unknowledgable gun owners. I should have kept some notes. AK fanboys are rabid fanatics! To which I reply:

Everyone that has tried to kill me has tried with an AK 47. At the end of the day none of them succeeded but I was successful with my AR...

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10 years 10 months ago #33078 by jtallen83
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OleCowboy wrote: I am sure that when he developed the firearm his intentions were good. As for the AK, well its a great weapon by any standards. That said you cannot compare it to the AR and I have tried. Mostly the comparo's are threads on various forums started by unknowledgable gun owners. I should have kept some notes. AK fanboys are rabid fanatics! To which I reply:

Everyone that has tried to kill me has tried with an AK 47. At the end of the day none of them succeeded but I was successful with my AR...


Very true but without the easily manufactured and used AK they may have been trying to kill you with a bolt action. History was changed, maybe not a good thing but changed none the less.

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