For almost seventy years, one of the widely used and successful assault rifles has been the Kalishnikov AK47. Designed by former Soviet soldier Mikhail Kalishnikov following the Second World War, the AK 47 Assault Rifle with Wood Stock is an ideal weapon when you’re trying to train people out of third world countries who had rarely seen a gun let alone fired one.  What made this weapon so successful was that it was nigh-indestructible.  You could take this weapon and throw it into sand, mud, or gravel and be reasonably sure it would fire without a problem.  This is because it was loosely fitted together compared to other, more precise assault rifles such as the M16.  It was light, and simple to break down, and it was highly reliable.  It wasn’t as accurate, but with the idea that quantity would overwhelm whatever quality the west had, accuracy didn’t seem to matter as much.  The Soviet Union would throw hundreds of boxes of this weapon at any nation that would subscribe to the ideals of communism, and became so widely used that it ended up on the flag of an African country.  The AK 47 is the symbol of tyrants and freedom fighters throughout the last half century and continues to see use in such places as Pakistan and Africa to this day.  Having such replica assault rifles in your collection of swords and armor isn’t really out of place when you consider how immensely useful they are throughout military history, and the AK 47 should be a must on any collector’s wall.