The AK-47 and its offshoots have become the rifles of choice for mass killers. This is an illustrated look at their deadly evolution.
Thursday, August 4, 2016 5:48 PM EDT
Dallas. Paris. Nairobi. Mumbai. Time and again, it’s the same. A lone shooter or a group of killers with rifles kill scores and terrorize hundreds. They often use descendants of two weapons: the Kalashnikov and its Western military response, the AR-15.
A New York Times examination shows how these two families of military rifles, with inextricably linked histories, became tools of modern terror.
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