Russian Army Ends Purchase of Kalashnikov Rifles

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Chief of the General Staff Nikolai Makarov told Russian media that the army already had too many of the weapons in its stores.

A new model is expected to be ready by the end of the year.

News of the army's decision is reportedly being kept from the rifle's designer, Mikhail Kalashnikov, now 91.

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“We do not want to take it upon ourselves to tell him,” an unnamed member of his family told Russia's Izvestia newspaper.

“It might kill him.”

A spokesman for the rifle's developer, the Izhmash plant in central Russia, told Izvestia newspaper that a new model would be ready for demonstration by the end of the year. Read more

Source: bbcnews.com


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