2014 SHOT SHOW: Kalashnikov remembered

[tootall]

With the passing of AK designer Mikhail Kalashnikov last month, there were several displays remembering him.
I will leave it up to you to decide whether this is sincere somber reflection, or decadent western marketing.

The first one I encountered was near the escalators going from Level 1 to Level 2. It was courtesy of Arsenal Inc.

The main Arsenal display was quite impressive.

Knight (KAC) also had a small but tasteful display.

RWC Group also had a wreath, and a book of condolences. The two booth models were Russian, and invited everyone to sign it.

Julia (dark hair) and Olga (blonde)

Next day, different dresses. Red seems more appropriate for Russia.

So I have decided that when I go, I want to have an honour guard of pretty girls with guns remembering me...

 

[charlesquik]

last lady on the right umm

 

[pedja]

The ak on the left is a Valmet i am sure but the one on the right i am sure it's prohibited. If it is what is it doing out there. I want one

 

[gwagen]

I saw those displays, kinda odd I thought.

Funny how he has become so famous for his design, for sure a great and popular rifle but pales in comparison to someone like JM Browning, he had more crumpled up ideas in the waste paper bin than kalashnikov had ideas.

 

[.30/06 FTW]

The ak on the left is a Valmet i am sure but the one on the right i am sure it's prohibited. If it is what is it doing out there. I want one

It's a Saiga, not a Valmet. Prohib.

 

[Deckard]

Deano always loves the floozies.

 

[Pure Energy]

Kinda a blank stare for being in the middle of those two. Lol.

 

[John Y Cannuck]

tootall trying out for playboy photographer?

I think the capitalists using the communist for profit is wild, but as a firearms designer, regardless of politics, I'm glad to see him remembered.

 

[kalashnikov]

Respect.

 

[pomelum]

Simonov didnt get that. will he be remembered for his super jet fighter and his SKS, the "inspiration" to say the least on the Kalashnikov rifle?

 

[de-mix]

Where is the tribute to Hugo Schmeisser?
...oh right.

 

[Runningfool]

I thought you'd be taller

 

[lone-wolf]

Funny how he has become so famous for his design, for sure a great and popular rifle but pales in comparison to someone like JM Browning, he had more crumpled up ideas in the waste paper bin than kalashnikov had ideas.

I'd say there's something to say about Kalashnikov achieving this under communism, JM Browning had the benefit of capitalism and a free market.

 

[banditos]

I have to find a poster of Kalashnikov and put it up in my man-cave.

 

[CanAm]

I'd say there's something to say about Kalashnikov achieving this under communism, JM Browning had the benefit of capitalism and a free market.

Very likely just another Stakhanovite, but nice to see a gun designer remembered.

 

[pilgrim]

Sergei Simonov - SKS (designer of the SKS rifle, deid in 1986)
Mikhail Simonov - Su-27 (designer of the jet fighter, died in 2011)

 

[tootall]

Photos back up.