• Ol' Man Kalashnikov in Intensive Care
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[QUOTE=Nitro836;39028873]What I meant is he was heavily involved in its creation.[/QUOTE] dude that formula was heavily involved in pretty much everything after he came up with it sure a lot of that shit was bad, but a lot of it was good too, so whatever
[QUOTE=Hiccuper;39027613]How do you know that? Those were developed far too long ago to make a statement like that, the first knives could have been crude implements for cutting and skinning animals, and bows and arrows could have been developed for hunting rather than combat, also, bows and knives are very simple tools, civilizations with no contact with each other developed their own, so obviously there are tons of variants. The AK is a weapon engineered for war. Sure you can slap some modifications on it for target practice, never said you couldn't, and I'm sure you could shoot targets with it without modifications, but you'd probably be more effective with a different firearm.[/QUOTE] if a tool is used for killing an animal, isn't that still for killing?
[QUOTE=Sardonus;38991489]I wonder how many deaths he's responsible for :v: Nonetheless, he's designed what I would say is the single most iconic rifle ever, so shit I wish you well man you influenced the world[/QUOTE] People who pulled the trigger and/or the government that told them to do so were responsible for the deaths. If he didnt make weapons, people would have just been killed with other weapons.
[url=http://www.france24.com/en/20121229-russias-kalashnikov-leaves-hospital]Everything is looking good![/url] [quote]AFP - Russia's legendary rifle-designer Mikhail Kalashnikov checked out of hospital on Saturday after spending nearly a week in an intensive care unit with swelling and general fatigue. The 93-year-old father of the AK-47 had been under the care of doctors in the central Russian city of Izhevsk -- home to the tsarist-era plant that makes Russia's most famous weapon. "He checked out today at 1:00 pm," Interfax quoted the centre's chief doctor Sergei Ryashchikov as saying. "I just spoke to him -- he is quite sprightly. His eyes are shining bright." Ryashchikov said Kalashnikov underwent a scheduled checkup but his aide had earlier said that he had been suffering from what appeared to be the side effects of a lingering heart condition. Kalashnikov designed his famous rifles -- staples of armies across the world for the past half century -- at Izhevsk's Izmash factory and lives in the region to this day. The 205-year-old plant remains one of the main producers of Russian weapons and is treasured as a national icon. But Izmash has also suffered from dwindling demand and a failure to make up for this with foreign orders -- a problem plaguing many specialised post-Soviet industries. Popular legend states that Kalashnikov began designing weapons after having trouble with the rifles the Soviet Red Army was using during World War II. He is the 17th child of a family that lived in a tiny village high in the Altai Mountains near Russia's remote border with Mongolia.[/quote]
kalashnikov is as resilient as his avtomat
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