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start of the gun
the USSR launches a secret contest to design an autamatic assult rifle-using the m43 round- at a facility near moscow -
the day the Ak-47 was created
it was created 1946 thru 1948 -
the year the ak was produced
this was the year that the ak 47 was firsst released -
revolutionaries
revolutionaries in hungry defeat soviet troops and grab ak-47's presaging the gun's use by rebels -
type 56
production of china's first version of the ak-47 know as the type 56 begins -
the gun spreads
chile's savador allende becomes the west's first elected socialist head of state; fidel castro gives him and ak-47 -
the gun nationalzed
in 1983 mozabique places the ak-47 on its national flag -
U.S bann of the ak-47
in 1989 a movement to ban assult rifles in the United States begins after a man kills five children in stockton, califorina with an ak copy -
terrorist learn the history
in 2001 notebooks from terrorist camps across Afghanistan reveal the all trainees learn the history of AKs -
capturing
in 2003 Saddam Hussein is captured in iraq with 2 ak-47s, 9-mm glock and $750,000 in U.S currency -
war
the iraqi army will have an arsenal consiting of kalashinkovs and 180,000 U.S. troops armed with m16s
