AK-47

it, his father once had hundreds of animals. Then drought and cattle raiding by gangs of young men from competing clans whittled away the herd until there were just five cows left. It was the early 1990s (he can’t be sure of the year) and Lekoloi was in his early teens (he’s not sure of his age either) when he decided something had to change. Selling the last of his father’s cattle for 30,000 shillings (roughly $500 at the time), Lekoloi bought an AK-47 assault rifle and 60 bullets in two curved magazines from a gun trader who tapped the flow of small arms washing through the remote border areas of Somalia, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Kenya, and Uganda. “That was the first time I had a gun to hold,” he said. “My plan was to go and raid livestock.” Joining a successful raiding party proves a young man’s masculinity, bravery, and risk-taking prowess. It also gains him the cattle that are prized above all else, and are used to pay the bride-price when he marries. When Lekoloi, the aspiring cattle raider and proud owner of a secondhand AK-47, got home he found that his mother, too, had taken matters into her own hands. Invoking the traditional social obligation of paran, she had demanded from better-off relatives — and was given — a cow and seven goats. Instead of raiding, Lekoloi went back to herding, the switch replaced by the rifle slung over his shoulder. One day he and his small herd had the misfortune of stumbling upon an elephant. It charged, striking the family’s only cow with…

and complex obstacles are constantly being thrown at Christopher, so readers are always wondering how he will face them. People don’t always understand why he makes some of the choices he makes. For example, Christopher is sitting in a photo booth at the subway stop when he thinks, “And I did detecting by watching and I saw that people were putting tickets into gray gates and walking through. And some of them were buying tickets at big black machines on the wall. And I watched 47 people do this…

Just try to imagine this: you’re in some war-torn desert overseas; rifle in hand, bullets are flying all over the place and you and your squad are pinned down! You have never been so scared in your life, you then realize your squad is outnumbered and you think to yourself; will I make it out alive? A call is made for close air support, you don’t know what aircraft is coming, but it just needs to get here fast. Now what would you want to have your back in a situation like that? A stealth fighter…

most iconic rifles of all time are the AR-15 and the AK-47. America has used some variant of the AR-15 ever since the Vietnam War. The AK-47 has become known as a “bad guy gun,” due to the fact many terrorists and gangs use these rifles commonly. Many people believe that AR is the abbreviation of Assault Rifle. However, AR is actually the abbreviation of Armalite Rifle and the 15 in AR-15 stands for model 15. The AR-15 was designed by Eugene Stoner in 1957. AK-47 is short for Avtomat…

Ted Talk Draft How the Kalashnikov rifle changed the world history during the 20th century The most popular weapon in the world, originated in The Soviet Union in 1947, shortly after the second World War. It was created to supply the Communist army and it was widely spread throughout armed forces around the world. In the cold war, it was used principally supply communist revolutions around the world, such as in North Vietnam, North Korea and in many African countries. The rifle was cheap,…

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On July 2, 2007, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, a drug lord and the most wanted man in Mexico, reportedly married a woman from La Angostura, Durango, in a public ceremony. Though already married twice, Guzmán fell in love with eighteen-year-old Emma Coronel—described by a reporter as being white skinned and having a well-formed body—who had recently been named queen of the 2007 Coffee and Guava Fair (Dávila 2007b, 7). Emma had met Chapo at a village dance. Before he arrived at the wedding, a small…

Michael Kalashnikov’s challenge was to utilize skills from the engineering field to build a firearm that revolved around its bullet, and would be simple for the user to manipulate. The AK47 fires a 7.62x39 projectile, which is known to be an intermediate cartridge. This is created in such a way to have peak efficiency on human targets and not excessively strong, such as most military rounds used at the time. Such cartridges are made by making a bullet casing short and fat and making the rounds…

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shotguns and pistols. It’s not the gun, but the person who pulls the trigger, but some people want to give that irresponsible individual a weapon of mass destruction. The creation of an assault rifle caused the flow of war to change, think of what it could cause the U.S to turn into. It’s unpredictable of whether the U.S will turn into after the second amendment is extended. But taxes and crime will increase. Kerry a law enforcer spoken to officers and asked what they thought of the…