Everywhere I went on my job covering conflict, the…

The automatic Kalashnikov is a tool, an implement designed for ordinary men, without much training or undue complications, to kill other men, and to…

— C. J. Chivers

Certainly the automatic Kalashnikov's ease of use and durability make it desirable for all sorts of people up to no good. But rifles are…

— C. J. Chivers

Actually, in a lot of circumstances, the Kalashnikov is poorly used by people who are not especially good shots, or who are outright bad…

— C. J. Chivers

I think that covering a conflict that is personal, that influences your very own, your family, gives you some perspectives.As a journalist, when I…

— Shaul Schwarz

“I think I was always interested in the larger world, even as a kid, and my experiences as a journalist only heightened that interest.…

— Masha Hamilton

I am still covering conflict to some degree. I was back in Iraq. I've covered quite a bit of the Israel and Palestine. But…

— Peter van Agtmael

“The weapon, which Kalashnikov emphasizes as a defensive tool and a shared monument to the population’s creative energy, was rather a marker of the…

— C.J. Chivers

My aim was to create armaments to protect the borders of my motherland. It is not my fault that the Kalashnikov became very well-known…

— Mikhail Kalashnikov

My father was convinced the Taliban would hunt him down and kill him, but he again refused security from the police. 'If you go…

— Malala Yousafzai

When I went to Afghanistan in 2003, I walked into a war zone. Entire neighborhoods had been demolished. There were an overwhelming number of…

— Khaled Hosseini

Mindless violence, well let me try to paint it. Here's the 5 steps in hopes to explain it: 1, It's me and my Nation…

— K'naan

“Within a very few years the Kalashnikov’s attributes—its mechanical characteristics combined with its unprecedented availability—transformed Stalin’s rifle, conceived as a tool of the state,…

— C.J. Chivers

Talk about tactful - she's got a tongue like a Kalashnikov!

— Steve Fowler

For many observers, a child who has known nothing but war, a child for whom the Kalashnikov is the only way to make a…

— Ishmael Beah

It appears that the murder rate inside prisons is ten times higher than that outside prisons. It must be due to all those Kalashnikov…

— Jeff Cooper