As you might suspect, I’m not a fan of Sebastian Gorka.
But I was station-flipping on the AM dial a few days ago, and caught a few minutes of his interview with an Arizonan working “to define the next generation of the Kalashnikov family of rifles.” Reminded me of a book I reviewed back in 2010.
Enjoy!
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C.J. Chivers, a Pulitzer-winning writer for The New York Times, served as a Marine infantry officer during the first Gulf War. He later headed up the Times’s Moscow bureau, then went on to cover the U.S. occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq.
So he’s the right man to chronicle the history of the AK-47.
In The Gun, Chivers fills more than 400 pages with gritty, globe-girding tales of the weapon’s origins, its use by nations and terrorists, how the American military-industrial complex reacted to it, and the many ways the AK-47 lives on well beyond the Cold War.
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