Behind the AK-47 Assault Rifle

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Listen Monday, Feb. 19, 2007 at 1:32 p.m. in Conflict

Guest host: Korva Coleman

Virtually indestructible and relatively inexpensive, the AK-47 is the gun of choice for many urban drug lords and would-be terrorists. We look at the history of these killing machines, and why their designer Mikhail Kalashnikov now says he wishes he had invented a lawn mower.

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Larry Kahaner

author "AK-47: The Weapon That Changed the Face of War" (Wiley)

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