- The AK stands for “automatic Kalashnikov”(after the inventor). 47 is a reference to the year that it was invented.
- There are about 100 million AK-47s around the world.
- China is the largest producer of the weapon.
- Almost 50 standing armies use AK-47, including those of China, Egypt, Cuba, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Iran and Iraq.
- The inventor Mikhail Kalashnikov was paid only Soviet wages for the invention of AK-47.
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