How The AK-47 Became The Most Iconic Gun In History

And led to decades of bloodshed

(The AK-47 on the former coat of arms of Burkina Faso — Public domain)

The Automatic Kalashnikov 1947 (AK-47) was an intermediate rifle designed in 1947. The rifle was designed to combat the inefficiencies in gun technology that were encountered by Russian soldiers on the Eastern Front. Legend has it that its inventor, Mikhail Kalashnikov, had little to no experience in gunsmithing. This is…