Read more AK 47 stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/4604/ak-47.htmlhttp://img1-cdn.newser.com/images/newser-black250x40.gifhttp://www.newser.com/2012 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorSat, 26 May 2012 10:00:50 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/13582/mall-gunman-photos-released.htmlMichael O'Connor<img src='http://img1-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=53162&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110401024812' border='0' />Images from surveillance videos showing Robert Hawkins, the 19-year-old who killed eight people, and then himself, at Westroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska, Wednesday, were released by the authorities today, the AP reports. Three still images taken by mall security cameras show Hawkins walking into the mall seemingly unarmed, then with...This image taken from a video surveillance camera and released by the Omaha Police Department Friday Dec. 7, 2007 shows gunman Robert A. Hawkins inside the Westroads Mall in Omaha, Neb. Wednesday Dec. 5, 2007, moments before killing eight people and himself. (AP Photo/Omaha Police Department)http://www.newser.com/story/13582/mall-gunman-photos-released.htmlFri, 07 Dec 2007 16:39:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/5359/us-loses-30-of-iraq-weapons.htmlGreg Atwan<img src='http://img1-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=17122&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110401033449' border='0' />Nearly a third of US weapons doled out to Iraqi security forces over the past three years are unaccounted for, a GAO report says, and insiders are worried they've fallen into the hands of insurgents. The weapons that the Pentagon can no longer track include 110,000 AK-47 assault rifles...Iraqi Army troops dig up a garden in search for weapons during a census operation in the Amariyah neighborhood of west Baghdad, Iraq on Saturday, Aug. 4, 2007. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)http://www.newser.com/story/5359/us-loses-30-of-iraq-weapons.htmlMon, 06 Aug 2007 11:47:58 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/4319/russians-gun-for-ak-profits.htmlMax Brallier<img src='http://img2-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=12271&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110401034040' border='0' />The Kalashnikov, the world's most popular firearm, has been a source of mixed emotions in Russia since it was invented 60 years ago, the New York Times reports . Putin calls the killing machine a "symbol of the talent and creative genius of our people." But almost none of the AK-47's...Mikhail Kalashnikov, 87, holds his AK-47 Nr.1, a prototype of the famous AK-47 rifle, during a ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of the worldwide assault rifle creation in the Russia's Armed Forces Central Museum in Moscow on Friday, July 6, 2007. Sturdy, simple and cheap, firing 600 bullets a minute, the world's estimated 100 million Kalashnikovs account for up to 80 percent of all assault rifles. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)http://www.newser.com/story/4319/russians-gun-for-ak-profits.htmlSun, 15 Jul 2007 07:24:54 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/3959/ak-47-turns-60.htmlNewsDude<img src='http://img2-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=10803&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110401034229' border='0' />In 1941, while hospitalized for wounds received fighting the Nazis, Russian soldier Mikhail Kalashnikov designed a rifle that combined the best of the American M1 and the German StG44. The "Avtomat Kalashnikov," first produced in 1947, became known as the AK-47. It is prized by warriors of many stripes for...Mikhail Kalashnikov, 88, stands at his AK-47 Nr.1, a prototype of the famous AK-47 rifle, during a ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of the worldwide assault rifle's creation in the Russia's Armed Forces Central Museum in Moscow, Friday, July 6, 2007. The red flag in the background is the banner flown from the top of the Reichstag in Berlin after the building was seized by Soviet troops a week before the Nazi surrender in May 1945. The photo depicts Victory Parade in Moscow in June 1945. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)http://www.newser.com/story/3959/ak-47-turns-60.htmlSat, 07 Jul 2007 07:39:57 CDT