Why the AK-47 is counterfeited

Posted on April 27, 2008
Filed Under Europe, Transnational Crime, counterfeit and piracy |

According to Larry Kahaner, author of AK-47:The Weapon That Changed The Face Of War, unlicensed production of AK-47s stems from the fact that the inventor of the AK-47 Mikhail Kalashnikov “never patented the rifle’s design - the thought had never occurred to him or anyone else under the Soviet regime.”

Source: Larry Kahaner, AK-47: The Weapon That Changed The Face Of War, (New Jersey: John Wiley and Sons, 2007), pg. 210.

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