15-year-old Nooria picked up an AK-47, killing two men and wounding a third. She was hailed as a hero. But the story behind what happened that night was more complicated. Did Nooria shoot Taliban ...

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The creator of the AK-47, Mikhail Kalashnikov, developed the weapon in response to a German-engineered firearm called the Sturmgewehr 44 rifle. Let's take a look at the AK series by the numbers.