Conflict Quote by C. J. Chivers

“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

“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

Not long ago it was easy to tell who the bad guys were. They carried Kalashnikovs. Now it is much more complicated, but one…

— Jeff Cooper

“Kabul fell prey to men who looked like they had tumbled out of their mothers with Kalashnikov in hand...”

— Khaled Hosseini

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

I was born into Sudan's civil war, and before I could read or write, I was using an AK47 in the conflict between the…

— Ger Duany

“The AK-47 was christened with blood not as a tool for liberation or to defend the Soviet Union from invaders. It made its debut…

— C.J. Chivers

My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national calamity to…

— Zachary Taylor

“the Russian assault rifle would see its first combat use—both by conventional forces and by insurgents. The United States military, all the while, would…

— C.J. Chivers

“The patterns of student violence started changing with the inflow of firearms to Karachi campuses. Modern weaponry (Sten-guns and revolvers, and later on Kalashnikovs)…

— Laurent Gayer

Early in my career, I served in the Army. I took care of wounded soldiers in Operation Desert Storm, and I saw what weapons…

— Ralph Northam