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silvermyth
· 5 years ago
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Would be useful if animals attacked your livestock, I suppose.
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guest_
· 5 years ago
Gosh darn it. That’s not how farmers use assault riffles. I need this assault rifle to hunt deer, and without the drum mags or belt feed how can I mow down my crops with it?!!
silvermyth
· 5 years ago
I’m reaching here
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chakun
· 5 years ago
I need my assault rifle to defend my home and my family against those who would do them harm, and also to take up arms against my government in the event that it should attempt to remove my liberty. Also I can use it to hunt for food if I need to.
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guest_
· 5 years ago
Technically he didn’t profit directly from the riffle. He designed it in a communist country, while serving in the military, the state owned the weapons and IP. Further, the actual AK design wasn’t protected by law until 1997, and its estimated that less than 10% of AK family weapons are “legitimate” and not facsimile copies or derivative designs- which says a lot considering that there are an estimated 100 million plus AK style riffles in global circulation. The designer of the M16 family was made wealthy by his weapon, Kalashnikov was given several awards but no direct cash from the Soviet government or its allies and subsequent production and sales of his design. He did own stock in his nephews German company which sold various merchandise and novelties branded with the Kalashnikov name- however the only weapons they sold were knives. Most of his life he maintained he was proud to have created a riffle to defend Russia and arm many freedom fighters. The older he got the more...
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guest_
· 5 years ago
... he seemed to question the morality of his creation, up until the quote above which came right before his death. Perhaps he was simply trying to help make sure he wasn’t remembered as a monster by history, or perhaps he always had doubts and his patriotism and the climate of his formative years repressed them, or maybe in his old age he did truly look back on his life differently after years of pride. Who knows? While he was a global icon for his weapons contributions, and a hero of the Soviet and even post soviet nation, he was also an entrepreneur and business man. Some of that obviously came from perks related to his weapons designs, but much was his own. While he wasn’t a poor man, he wasn’t as wealthy as you’d think for the guy who invented the worlds #1 assault riffle. So I do t know that he was “wiping his tears with his money.”
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