This is coolbert: Little blurb in the Tribune magazine yesterday caught my attention. About the AK-47. Now, I have blogged about this weapon before. Some stats are interesting from the article. Seem to reinforce what I said before. 100 million AK-47's in the world circulating around. In contrast, the M-16 has 7 million copies manufactured. As many as 300 thousand persons are killed every year in wars all around the world, most killed by small arms, typically AK's, and this year after year. A used AK can be had in Afghanistan for $10 and for $3800 in India. Indian troops that carry the AK in Kashmir carry the weapon chained to their bodies. So that if they are killed, the insurgents cannot pick them up and use them. And lastly, the nation of Mozambique has the AK-47 on it's national flag. The communist insurgents [FRELIMO] that gained power there felt so strongly that power flows out of the barrel of a gun [Chairman Mao], that they have a picture on their national colors of an AK!! A good blog would be to trace the genesis of this weapon, from it's World War Two antecedents.

coolbert.