The AK-47-style pistols resemble the AK-47 assault rifle, but with shorter barrels and without a rear stock.
The Pakistani intelligence official guiding me through the compound said there were no AK-47 bullets found at the scene and he therefore surmised that the courier had been taken by surprise and was shot before he could reach for his AK-47, which was recovered leaning against the wall of the Kuwaitis' bedroom.
The report said the U.S. commander in charge of training Iraqi forces reported about 185, 000 AK-47 rifles, 170, 000 pistols, 215, 000 items of body armor, and 140, 000 helmets were issued to Iraqi security forces as of September 2005, while the accounting books from the U.S. military contained records for only about 75, 000 AK-47 rifles, 90, 000 pistols, 80, 000 items of body armor, and 25, 000 helmets.
The authorities in Honduras have seized a gold-plated, jewel-encrusted AK-47 assault rifle, complete with two silver magazines.
In 1919, Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian engineer and designer of the AK-47 rifle that bears his name, born.
They only have two things in common, they are all Sunni and they carry the AK-47 assault rifle.
Prosecutors said Muse was the first to board the Maersk Alabama, firing his AK-47 assault rifle at Capt Phillips.
His protection is a battered AK-47 and a new blue British armored vest.
The Soviet-designed automatic assault rifle, the Avtomat Kalashnikova, was first manufactured in 1947 (hence its commonest version, the AK-47).
Court documents said Muse was the first to board the vessel, firing his AK-47 assault rifle at Captain Richard Phillips.
Prosecutors said they collected at least 30 shell casings from a variety of weapons, including several bullet casings from an AK-47.
More pertinently, it is nearly double the range of the AK-47, a rifle of Soviet design that is used by many insurgent groups.
The A.U. troops are mostly equipped with AK-47 assault rifles.
Roads leading to the building in the capital, Tripoli, were obstructed by at least 20 vehicles, as militiamen carrying AK-47 rifles moved into the area, although they did not enter the ministry itself.
U.S. sales of the civilian versions of the famous Kalishnikov AK-47 s, old under the brand name Saiga, rose by 50% in 2011, The New York Times reported from Russia on Aug 14, 2012.
The problem of cyber arms control is akin to the greatest arms control failure of the Cold War, which still persists: the mass distribution of the most produced firearm in human history, the Kalashnikov AK-47.
American firearms are in high demand because Mexico's firearm laws are highly restrictive and high-powered weapons such as the AK-47-style pistol are deemed for the exclusive use of the Mexican military, U.S. prosecutors said in court documents.
The AK-47, for example, is widely available to private citizens around the U.S. as a semi-automatic version (firing one shot each time the trigger is pulled), but the military grade fully automatic (continuous fire while the trigger is depressed) model is illegal almost everywhere.
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In the 2007 election it scraped in a distant second, with 21% to AK's 47%.
The AK Party, which was re-elected last year with a convincing 47% of the vote, says it is a matter of personal and religious freedom.
Turkey's generals found this out when voters returned the AK for a second term in the July 2007 general election with a thumping 47% of the vote soon after the top brass threatened a coup.
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