Key point: The practice of taking enemy weapons from the battlefield as trophies was hardly new in the 1960s. But captured weapons—especially AK variants—quickly became important parts of U.S. Army ...

Key point: Even as Washington’s involvement in Southeast Asia waned, the Pentagon still made use of its captured stockpiles. While the Soviet Avtomat Kalashnikova has become the iconic weapon of bad ...

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It's the most effective killing machine in human history - a gun that, on its 62nd birthday, is still killing as many as a quarter of a million people every year, in every corner of the globe.