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Kalashnikov museum tour

Author: 4044415.livejournal.com

Published: 29 December 2010

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Kalashnikov museum tour

Kalashnikov museum tour

A trial sample of a balanced AK assault rifle (made in 1964)

Several AK (7.62 mm)

A number of contemporary АK-74 (5.54 mm)...

...and АK-100 (various calibers, including NATO ones), the Saiga-12 and the Vepr carbine

Military googles

Nagant M1895, TT pistol.

The Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-6-23 weighs only 76 kilos, with 12,000 shots a minute

Submachine gun Bizon-2 with a helical magazine

The Dragunov sniper rifle

Above – the АK-108 and the AN-94. Below – the new SV-98

The shooting range

Different pistols with magazines

AK and the Dragunov sniper rifle magazines

The shooting range

The cute tour guide is full of enthusiasm, telling us non-experts about the childhood and youth of the master gunsmith Mikhail Kalashnikov.

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