The father of the AK-47 still going strong at 86

[thewayne]

I'm glad to hear him still being active at 86. He invented a wonderous firearm, I had a Chinese variation called an SKS. They're incredibly sturdy and they work reliably under the most horrible conditions, I knew about American soldiers during the Vietnam war using captured weapons, I didn't know they were doing the same thing in Iraq. I guess that I'd hoped that the American arms manufacturers had refined the M-16 and its children sufficiently that it would work well in any climate, I guess I was wrong.

Here's the article.