FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 29, 1997 file photo Mikhail Kalashnikov shows a model of his world-famous AK-47 assault rifle at home in the Ural Mountain city of Izhevsk, 1000 km (625 miles) east of ...

"The AK47, or Avtomat Kalashnikova in Russian, has been the world's most used automatic rifle since it was first introduced ...

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 ...

The AK-308 weighs about 9 1/2 pounds with an empty 20-round magazine and has a dioptric sight and a foldable stock.

LAS VEGAS — The famous Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifles have been made in frigid Moscow since their inception 69 years ago. Soon, they’ll be made in sunny Florida, too. Kalashnikov USA has been ...

There could be a cause for concern as the Kalashnikov Concern announced that it had completed a three-year contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense and claimed to have doubled the supplies of the ...

MOSCOW — In a regretful letter penned a few months before his death, Mikhail Kalashnikov, the designer of the AK-47 assault rifle, asked the head of the Russian Orthodox Church if he was to blame for ...

MOSCOW — Mikhail Kalashnikov started out wanting to make farm equipment, but the harvest he reaped was one of blood as the designer of the AK-47 assault rifle, the world’s most popular firearm. It was ...

Mikhail Kalashnikov, whose work as a weapons designer for the Soviet Union is immortalized in the name of the world's most popular firearm, died Monday at the age of 94. Kalashnikov once aspired to ...

Mikhail Kalashnikov%2C father of the AK-47%2C is dead The Russian weapon designer was 94 He once aspired to design farm equipment MOSCOW (AP) — Mikhail Kalashnikov, whose work as a weapons designer ...