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Title: Makhail Kalashnikov Dead At 94
Post by: billt on December 23, 2013, 02:12:26 PM
R.I.P. Komrade

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/12/23/mikhail-kalashnikov-dead-at-4-designed-ak-47-rifle-which-100-million-have-been/?intcmp=latestnews
Title: Re: Makhail Kalashnikov Dead At 94
Post by: Timothy on December 23, 2013, 02:19:01 PM
http://www.downrange.tv/forum/index.php?topic=23727.msg287804#msg287804

Either way, RIP to a Hero of the Soviet Union!

AKA - The Enemy...

Title: Re: Makhail Kalashnikov Dead At 94
Post by: billt on December 23, 2013, 02:50:09 PM
Obama is a greater threat to this nation than anything or anyone from Russia.
Title: Re: Makhail Kalashnikov Dead At 94
Post by: Timothy on December 23, 2013, 02:51:20 PM
No argument from me on that, Bill!
Title: Re: Makhail Kalashnikov Dead At 94
Post by: gunman42782 on December 23, 2013, 04:02:27 PM
He lived a good long life. 
Title: Re: Makhail Kalashnikov Dead At 94
Post by: PegLeg45 on December 23, 2013, 06:58:20 PM
Quote from: gunman42782 on December 23, 2013, 04:02:27 PM
He lived a good long life.

Pickled with tater juice........  :o
Title: Re: Makhail Kalashnikov Dead At 94
Post by: Timothy on December 23, 2013, 07:02:47 PM
Quote from: PegLeg45 on December 23, 2013, 06:58:20 PM
Pickled with tater juice........  :o

And 69 years a socialist...  I admire his design though I've never shot an AK...but he's still a communist!

Title: Re: Makhail Kalashnikov Dead At 94
Post by: crusader rabbit on December 24, 2013, 08:03:28 AM
It's something to have designed the single most popular weapon ever used in war--since the beginning of time.

While I do not own one, I do recognize it for what it is--a very efficient, easily built, reasonably accurate long gun that has been on both sides of most conflicts since its introduction.

And, while I know nothing about the condition of Kalasnikov's soul, he lived his life as a godless commie, so I suspect there won't be much RIP-ing going on, what with all the gnashing of teeth and eternal punishment stuff.

FWIW,

Crusader Rabbit
Title: Re: Makhail Kalashnikov Dead At 94
Post by: ExurbanKevin on December 26, 2013, 10:33:03 AM
Meh. After a week in the ground, they'll just dig him up, wash him off and put him back to work again, just like his namesake gun.  ;D ;D