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An AK-47 Factory In Russia Survives On Sales To U.S. Gun Owners

An AK-47 Factory In Russia Survives On Sales To U.S. Gun Owners
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In a Tuesday, June 5, 2012 photo, a Syrian rebel raises his AK-47, in front of the camera as he passes on a motorcycle next to the rubble of house that was destroyed during a military operation by the Syrian army in April 2012, in the town of Taftanaz,15 kilometers east of Idlib, Syria. At dawn on April 3, Syrian forces shelled the town in the first volley of what residents say was a massive assault after a string of large protests calling for the end of the autocratic rule of President Bashar Assad. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
In a Tuesday, June 5, 2012 photo, a Syrian rebel raises his AK-47, in front of the camera as he passes on a motorcycle next to the rubble of house that was destroyed during a military operation by the Syrian army in April 2012, in the town of Taftanaz,15 kilometers east of Idlib, Syria. At dawn on April 3, Syrian forces shelled the town in the first volley of what residents say was a massive assault after a string of large protests calling for the end of the autocratic rule of President Bashar Assad. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

IZHEVSK, Russia -- The nickname of this town, home of the factory that makes Kalashnikov rifles, is the "Armory of Russia." Over the years, it has armed a good number of other countries, too, as the lathes and presses of the Izhevsk Machine Works clanged around the clock to forge AK-47s and similar guns for insurgents and armies around the world.

But these days, many of Izhevsk's weapons are headed somewhere else: the United States.

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