Mikhail Kalashnikov News, Pictures & Buzz

Putin critic Alexey Navalny has been transferred to a penal colony, Russian prison service says  CNN

Russia's PPK-20 Submachine: The Gun No Military Wants?  The National Interest

The EU's sorry excuse for sanctions won't change Putin's ways  Spectator.co.uk

Saudi Arabia to manufacture Kalashnikov rifles with Russian support  ARY NEWS

Kalashnikov Woos Gadget Lovers With Ultima Shotgun That Syncs With Smartphones, Eyes Production in India  Gadgets 360

10 Genius Inventors Who Never Cashed In On Their Inventions  ScoopWhoop

Kalashnikov takes aim at hipsters with 'gadget gun'  The Times

Past in Perspective  The Nation

The Indian Army’s ‘General Kalashnikov’ gives it a new 9 mm sub-machine gun |India Today Insight  India Today

AK-47s — Quartz Weekly Obsession  Quartz

The Kalashnikov CV-1 was meant to kill Tesla and impress Putin — but where is it?  The Next Web

United Cutlery's Cyclone knife: strike the fear of God into your enemies  Task & Purpose

Meet the Most Influential Gun Designers of the 20th Century  The National Interest

November 13 in History: From birth of Britain's first Quintuplets to AK-47 rifle's development and more  WION

Putin Reveals Existence Of New Nuclear Command Bunker  The Drive

This Day in History - 10th November - DU EXPRESS  DU Express

10 little-known facts about the AK-47  We Are The Mighty

India, Russia finalise AK-47 203 rifles deal: Report  Livemint

Everything you want to know about the legendary AK-47  Business Insider

The AK-47: Everything You Want to Know  Military.com

sacredrobe: Mikhail Kalashnikov: GUNS should be tools of PEACE and FRI#&&SHIP https://t.co/HaGYAz4H1I

TylerGobl: RT @DirtyAnarchist: Q: Who invented the first gun? A: Mikhail Kalashnikov. Everything before that was a failed experiment https://t.co/7EE2…

frydaja: Did you know what by an obscure Soviet law, every Soviet or Russian gun designer is required to name himself after… https://t.co/AeFXzbx56u

ChoMeylan: RT @DirtyAnarchist: Q: Who invented the first gun? A: Mikhail Kalashnikov. Everything before that was a failed experiment https://t.co/7EE2…

RajGandre: RT @MarathiRojgar: AK-47 - This is something you can not afford to miss. Story of a @~*~ault rifle developed by Mikhail Kalashnikov. https:…

Seriously, I read a lot of complaints about Mikhail Kalashnikov on internet, saying he should go to hell, kill himself, etc. for his AK47, as it kills a lot of people. If it kills a lot of people, then it means it is very effective and should be used commonly by the good sides, isn't it? It is the good side' fault for ignoring it and using less-effective weapons.

By Dmitry Solovyov 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. Kalashnikov, who was in his 20s when he created the AK-47, died in his home city of Izhevsk near the Ural Mountains, where his gun is still made, a spokesman for the Udmurtia province's president said on state television. No cause of death was given. Kalashnikov was fitted with a pacemaker at a Moscow hospital in June and had been in hospital in Izhevsk since November 17, state media reported. Sombre music accompanied tributes that led evening news reports on state TV, and President Vladimir Putin expressed "deep sympathy" for Kalashnikov's loved ones. A son of Siberian peasants who never finished school, Kalashnikov invented one of the Soviet Union's best-known and most imitated products. Shortly after fighting in World War Two, he created the AK-47, whose number stands for the year 1947. The "A" is for "avtomat" - automatic rifle - and the "K" for Kalashnikov. Later versions of the AK-47 are still a mainstay of Russia's armed forces and police more than 60 years after the original rifle went into service in the military in 1949. At a Kremlin ceremony on Kalashnikov's 90th birthday, then-President Dmitry Medvedev bestowed upon him the highest state honor - the Hero of Russia gold star medal - and lauded him for creating "the national brand every Russian is proud of". But Kalashnikov said pride in his invention was mixed with the pain of seeing it used by criminals and child soldiers. As well as being embraced by armies, anti-Western revolutionary movements and leftist leaders around the world, the relatively cheap and simple rifle has been used by gangsters, drug traffickers, militants and rebels of all stripes. The last of the great gun designers. Lee, Mauser, Browning, Maxim, Saive, Garand, Stoner, etc. As big a game changer to Mankind as the Jet engine or the PC.... Browning made money for his work. MR. K? Nothing.

One of my friends told me that Mikhail Kalashnikov did not really make the AK-47, that it was designed by a German, whom Kalashnikov stole the design from and killed. Is this true? Please no comments about my friends IQ lol