Word: ak
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Brandishing a Chinese-made AK-47 semiautomatic rifle, a man rose from his seat at a hearing of the California assembly in Sacramento last week and announced to some 80 startled listeners, "Ladies and gentlemen, take a look at your watches and start counting. You are lucky that I am the attorney general and not some nut. Because if I had the ammunition, I could shoot every member of the assembly by the time I finish this sentence -- about 20 seconds...
...effort may be futile, though, unless demand for the animals' tusks is reduced sharply. Ivory is fashioned into everything from billiard balls and knife handles to necklaces and figurines. Craftsmen have even carved tusks into ornamental replicas of AK-47 assault rifles...
...Stockton massacre started a new spiral in America's domestic arms race. All last week California gun shops were jammed with customers, sometimes standing three or four deep at counters, clamoring to buy an imitation AK-47 like the one Purdy used or, failing that, some other semiautomatic paramilitary weapon. (His gun was actually an AKS, a Chinese-made semiautomatic version of the fully automatic Soviet AK-47, though many gun dealers and users call both versions AK-47s.) At B & B Sales in North Hollywood, owner Bob Kahn spent much of Thursday frantically phoning suppliers to replenish his sold...
...involved the use of semiautomatic weapons. These fast-firing, powerful guns, capable of sending a bullet through a concrete wall, were once rare outside the military. But when the U.S. normalized relations with China, imports of Chinese weapons as well as other goods became legal. Purchases of the AK-47 copy soared from a mere 4,000 a year as recently as 1985-86 to more than 40,000 last year. There has also been a leap in sales of the MAC-10, a relatively cheap U.S.-manufactured semiautomatic; the AR-15, a semiautomatic copy of the U.S. military...
...flooded with deadly weapons. Should AK-47 look-alikes be harder to get? -- Some Washington lawmakers think national service for the young is an idea whose time has come. -- Ted Bundy confesses and confounds...