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the USSR launches a secret contest to design an autamatic assult rifle-using the m43 round- at a facility near moscow
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it was created 1946 thru 1948
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this was the year that the ak 47 was firsst released
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revolutionaries in hungry defeat soviet troops and grab ak-47's presaging the gun's use by rebels
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production of china's first version of the ak-47 know as the type 56 begins
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chile's savador allende becomes the west's first elected socialist head of state; fidel castro gives him and ak-47
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in 1983 mozabique places the ak-47 on its national flag
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in 1989 a movement to ban assult rifles in the United States begins after a man kills five children in stockton, califorina with an ak copy
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in 2001 notebooks from terrorist camps across Afghanistan reveal the all trainees learn the history of AKs
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in 2003 Saddam Hussein is captured in iraq with 2 ak-47s, 9-mm glock and $750,000 in U.S currency
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the iraqi army will have an arsenal consiting of kalashinkovs and 180,000 U.S. troops armed with m16s
