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Like the newspaper that have fired many an accurate shot and blasted a few trolls to the curbside(seanan, appleman and sweetie) the RL gun which was the inspiration for the name is a BOSS.

Officially known as the Avtomat Kalashnikova in popular culture now known as the kalashnikov and previously well known as the AK 47. The Kalashnikov is the best selling semi automatic rifle ever. In a doccie I watched they mentioned that it had earned for Russia somewhere around 100 Billion Us or something like that. more of it has been produced that all other semi automatic rifles combined.

Brief History

In 1944 Kalashnikov entered a competition for the best semi auto. He lost out and the Russian Army went with another brand. Later another competition was held which he didnt enter and where another semi auto won. This gun was to heavy weighing about 5 kg compared to the AK-47 's 2.7 - 3.28 KG. In 1946 a further competition was held in which Kalashnikov again entered and won and the rest is history.

Numbers produced

Produced 1949–1959[2]
Number built ≈ 75 million AK-47s, 100 million Kalashnikov-family weapons[3][4]

Design[edit]
The AK-47 is best described as a hybrid of previous rifle technology innovations:[38] the trigger mechanism,[39] double locking lugs and unlocking raceway[citation needed] of the M1 Garand/M1 carbine, the safety mechanism of the John Browning designed Remington Model 8 rifle,[citation needed] and the gas system of the Sturmgewehr 44.[citation needed] Kalashnikov's team had access to all of these weapons and had no need to "reinvent the wheel",[38] though he denied that his design was based on the German Sturmgewehr 44 assault rifle.[40] Kalashnikov himself observe😛 "A lot of Russian Army soldiers ask me how one can become a constructor, and how new weaponry is designed. These are very difficult questions. Each designer seems to have his own paths, his own successes and failures. But one thing is clear: before attempting to create something new, it is vital to have a good appreciation of everything that already exists in this field. I myself have had many experiences confirming this to be so."[26] There are claims about Kalashnikov copying other designs, like Bulkin's TKB-415[2] or Simonov's AVS-31.[41]

Why was it so popular:

Lightweight a relatively simple design with few parts meant that about any soldier could operate it and that includes child soldiers as well as fix it etc etc.

Durability:

The doccie I watched showed how durable this gun was. Each year they would put it through the following test. Completely freezing it - doccie showed even though frozen could still shoot. Water test in pouring rain can still shoot. Sand in extreme heat and being sand blasted it could still shoot.

So next time you consider what semi auto you will buy . Take a good look at the Kalshnikov 😃 (added as a joke not a an ad)

What did Kalashnikov get:

No monetary chunk was given to him but he was definitively part of the elite that got all of the nice kickbacks and lived like royalty. I cannot remember the name for them. Besides that he was awarded a medal that "best socialist contributor of all time" or something like that.

He mentions that he wished he could have designed something that could have helped people rather than kill them but that he is proud that his invention helped his mother country so much.