@BillRM,
BillRM wrote:Oh David I was rolling on the floor by the news media taking the tack
of how many people the AK had killed since it creation in fact far more
than the two atom bomb attacks on Japan.
Yes. I 'm sure that 's true.
I never looked at it quite that way b4.
Kalashnikov had an interesting biografy.
He was injured in a Russian battle tank
in the Second World War.
While in the hospital, he got the basic
idea for an automatic rifle. After the war,
he got a German slave to mentor his work, to wit:
the father of the Sturmgewehr 44 i.e., the Storm Rifle 1944,
Hugo Schmeisser. (This is not to imply that he was not also
the dad of many other
very fine fully automatic weapons.)
BillRM wrote:No kidding one of the best designed battle rifles ever
that is still used all over the world due to its superiority for sixty years
have done what it was design to do how amazing.
Yes; particularly its ruggedness, not so much its accuracy,
in addition to costing next to nothing to make.
Thay were selling in Arabian bazaars for
$12.
BillRM wrote:A great example of firearm engineering/art similar to the modal 1911 A 45 in that regard.
Credit for that goes to our American creative genius,
whom u have already mentioned: John Moses Browning, for Colt 's Mfgr. Co.
That yielded a historically interesting result for Colt, to wit:
Colt had a very successful .45 caliber revolver and its super-successful
.45 caliber automatic pistol: the 1911.
BOTH! I wish Sam Colt had been alive to see it.
