We begin our history of the most famous firearm of all time with a prologue: Because in order to understand how we got here, you gotta understand where we came from.
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THIS WEEK IN VIOLENCE: Little Marco’s Big Speech
ALSO AVAILABLE IN AUDIO
This week, we discuss the thinly-veiled white nationalist vision laid out by Marco Rubio in his Munich Security Conference speech. But first, we provide a little background on the man himself and what it means that a man like that would be giving such a speech—because this might be one of those cases where the medium is the message.
Sources:
C. J. Chivers (2010), The Gun: The Story of the AK-47
Larry Kahaner (2008), AK-47: The Weapon that Changed the Face of War
Chris McNab (2001), The AK-47
Image: The American-British entrepreneur Hiram Maxim posing with his eponymous Maxim Gun.
