How senior sergeant and T-34 tank commander Mikhail Kalashnikov, wounded in battle in 1941, lay hospitalized. So many times, in fact, that it has entered the realm of fairy tale. Historians have recounted the “legend of the Kalashnikov” many times. Sadly, too, in the history of insurrection, revolution, coups, riots, sedition, anarchy, poaching, road rage, organized and unorganized crime and pointless killings of every sort.
Despite - and due to - these qualities, the AK-47 today ranks as the deadliest, most prevalent and most game-changing individually wielded weapon in the history of military armament.
