Mikhail Kalashnikov's anecdote-Gun King vs.

1990, Eugene stoner, the American gun king, met his old rival Kalashnikov for the first time in his life. They got together because they wanted to shoot a history program sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution. Apart from the language barrier, stoner and Kalashnikov knew each other's names long ago. During the filming, they spent more than a week learning gun technology.

There are many similarities between their backgrounds-neither of them has gone to college or received formal education in weapons research and development, but they are both recognized as the most famous small arms designers in the world. When stoner became famous, he said that if he recruited now, he would not recruit someone like himself, because designing light weapons requires at least a college degree.

It is said that during his visit to the United States, the commander of a marine corps base in the United States invited two gun kings to have a shooting competition-Kalashnikov played M 16 and stoner played AK rifles, and the result was neck and neck.

There is such a rumor about this matter. Kalashnikov said that the base commander said to stoner, "I like this gun very much. I was willing to take a captured AK rifle when I was fighting in Vietnam, but the firing rate and muzzle sound of the AK gun were different from those of M 16. As soon as I shoot with an AK gun, the soldiers will mistakenly think that there are Vietnamese soldiers nearby, especially at night, and intensive firepower will come at me. " Stoner nodded, no expression on her face, no answer. This rumor is only said by the Russian side and has not been confirmed by the United States and stoner himself.

Regarding which is better, AK47 or M 16, stoner once commented that compared with the two guns, AK47 is simpler to operate and has lower failure rate, but M 16 is lighter and has higher shooting accuracy. The M 16 rifle made in stoner has been the standard weapon configuration of the US military since 1963.