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Subject: Re: Gun specialists? What about *REAL* guns?
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 18:48:24 -0500
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Yes, thats what it stands for. Automat for automatic and Kalashnokov is
the inventors name. First made in the USSR, now licensed out to at
least 50 countries.

Kinetic wrote:

> bong <bong@post.5ci.lt> wrote in article
> <35334ed9.3100497@news.telia.lt>...
>
> > And the machinegun is just the good ol' AK (Automat Kalashnykowo).
>
> Is that really what AK stands for? What country made it, and what does that
> mean translated (if anything).