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>The Maker of the AK-47 Should be "A" maker of the AK-47. The AK-47 is an open design and anyone can make it. I know there was an attempt to trademark the na

>The Maker of the AK-47 Should be "A" maker of the AK-47. The AK-47 is an open design and anyone can make it. I know there was an attempt to trademark the name a few years ago, but there's still lots of companies using the name.

flyingfences 8y ago
To be fair, though, Kalashnikov Concern, formerly IzhMash, is the canonical descendant of the AK heritage.
- vasili111 8y ago
  Other factories in ex-Soviet Union have technical documentation and the right to produce AK of different modifications.
dingaling 8y ago
And no-one in former-USSR and its successors has made a '47 since the AKM replaced it in 1959. Yugoslavia continued with the original design for some time but most other armies were keen on the 1kg weight reduction of the new model.
- vasili111 8y ago
  AK is that it is already produced in large quantities and is in big numbers in ex-Soviet Union republic military warehouses. Just no need to produce additional ones.