Day: September 27, 2012

65th Anniversary of the AK-47

Posted by Aimee on September 27, 2012, in News
Tags: Boker

Today is the 65th anniversary of the legendary assault rifle, the AK-47. Invented by Lieutenant General Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov, the Avtomat Kalashnikov Model 1947 was a response to the complaints with Soviet rifles by wounded Soviet soldiers Kalashnikov overheard while in the hospital recovering from an illness in 1941. In 1944 he designed a gas-operated carbine for...