A Kalashnikov Factory in Russia Survives on Sales to U.S. Gun Owners

The nickname of this town, home of the factory that makes Kalashnikov rifles, is the “Armory of Russia.” Over the years, it has armed a good number of other countries, too, as the lathes and presses of the Izhevsk Machine Works clanged around the clock to forge AK-47s and similar guns for insurgents and armies around the world.

These days, many of Izhevsk’s weapons are headed somewhere else: the United States.  More here…

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