Posted
6/11/2006 03:17:00 PM
by Douglas
What happens when you design a cheap, reliable rifle that just about any machinist in the world could put together? You end up with a
lot of them."Whenever I look at TV and I see the weapon I invented to defend my motherland in the hands of these bin Ladens I ask myself the same question: How did it get into their hands?" the 86-year-old Russian gun maker said.
"I didn't put it in the hands of bandits and terrorists and it's not my fault that it has mushroomed uncontrollably across the globe. Can I be blamed that they consider it the most reliable weapon?" he said.
It's not his fault he did such a good job, but there's a reason it's on the flag of
Mozambique that he's probably not proud of.