Is it surprising that one of the most widely-circulated photos of Charles Taylor, Liberias warlord-turned-president, should show him shouldering an AK-47? Taylor was tried and sentenced to 50 ...

How did it achieve this status? The war in Vietnam was arguably the watershed moment for the AK-47. The communist side were supplied by the Soviets and China with millions of Kalashnikovs The ...

I hired a former US law enforcement officer to buy an AK-47 assault rifle on my behalf. We were in McAllen, a city that sprawls across the Texas-Mexican border. On the Mexican side, it is called ...