NYT: American gun lovers turn to Russian AK-47s (Photo: Oleg Nikishin / The New York Times) IZHEVSK, Russia — The nickname of this town, home of the factory that makes Kalashnikov rifles, is the “Armory of Russia.” Over the years, it has armed a good number of other countries, too, as the lathes and presses of the Izhevsk Machine Works clanged around the clock to forge AK-47s and similar guns for insurgents and armies around the world. But these days, many of Izhevsk’s weapons are headed somewhere else: the United States. Read the complete story.
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NYT: American gun lovers turn to Russian AK-47s

(Photo: Oleg Nikishin / The New York Times)

IZHEVSK, Russia — The nickname of this town, home of the factory that makes Kalashnikov rifles, is the “Armory of Russia.” Over the years, it has armed a good number of other countries, too, as the lathes and presses of the Izhevsk Machine Works clanged around the clock to forge AK-47s and similar guns for insurgents and armies around the world.

But these days, many of Izhevsk’s weapons are headed somewhere else: the United States.

Read the complete story.

Source: MSNBC

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