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Old 12-23-13, 05:28 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by Skybird View Post
AK-47 may be famous - but one wonders what there would be without the Sturmgewehr 44 that preceded it and other modern assault rifles. Another of those Third Reich gadgets that everybody later based on.
Probably right exactly were we are today anyways. After all it's been pretty conclusively proven that the AK was not based the 44 and neither was the M1 Carbine.
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