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German gun scrubbed from Kalashnikov monument in Moscow

by Chris Eger

Russian workers redacted a portion of AK47 inventor Mikhail Kalashnikov's new monument last week to scrub away the presence of a controversial German rifle.

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Outrage as German weapon pops up on Kalashnikov’s new monument

by Chris Eger

In the latest installment in the 70-year running argument in the "AK was based on the StG" fracas, Mikhail Kalashnikov's new monument may include a Sturmgewehr.

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A flashback to the odd guns of the Eastern Bloc (15 PHOTOS)

by Chris Eger

While part of the workers' paradise in the 20th Century, the countries of Eastern Europe used a mix of cast off boomsticks and their own locally made guns that have faded from memory

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Mark Serbu and company sit down with a German StG44 then let her rip (VIDEO)

by Chris Eger

Royal Nonesuch visited Mark Serbu and got to play around with a WWII vintage Sturmgewehr 44, marked MP44 and put the 71-year-old select-fire through its paces.

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Assaulting weapons

by Greg Camp

The VPC has been going after what they've convinced a lot of people to call assault weapons at least since 1988 and now they are at it again.

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Hugo Schmeisser: Godfather of the assault rifle

by Chris Eger

Hugo Schmeisser was to the submachine gun, what John Browning was to the machine gun, and blazed a path all the way to the venerable AK-47 assault rifle.

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Gun collectors scour buybacks in growing numbers to save history (VIDEO)

by Chris Eger

Gun collectors are showing up at buybacks to save historically important and valuable guns from destruction.

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