Mikhail Kalashnikov is known for creating the AK rifle, but his contributions to Soviet firearms design didn’t end there. In 1961 he designed the PK machine gun, which was modernized into the ...

While the SVT-40 as one of the best semi-automatic rifles of its era, the AVT-40 was one of the worst. In an attempt to supplant the DP-28 light machine gun and provide Soviet infantryman with ...

But these days it’s not desperate revolutionaries and militiamen around the world who are buying the Soviet killing machine. Gun-toting American civilians account for 28-percent of sales.

Historians say the AK-47 and its spinoffs changed combat forever. While they aren’t as accurate as other guns or as effective at long distances, they weigh only eight pounds and have few moving ...

Saddam Hussein holds a machine gun presented to him on October 30, 1997 in Iraq. (Photo: STR New / Reuters) Among the Iraqi dictator’s most prized gifts were chrome plated AK-47s.

Kalashnikov rebrands its AK-47 killing machine as a ‘weapon of peace’ With corporate makeover, Russian gun maker aims to be as internationally recognizable as Apple ...

It is no accident that C. J. Chivers opens “The Gun,” his bold history of the AK-47, not with the loud crack that is the report of the rifle but with the monstrous bang of the first detonation ...

On Jan. 17, the Marines practiced firing two well-known Soviet-era Kalashnikov weapons: the PK general-purpose machine gun and AK-47 rifle, according to a news release from II Marine Expeditionary ...