Isn’t this a bit ironic? Mikhail Kalashnikov backs, of all things, gun control. It’s a bit like when Alfred Nobel unleashed the destructive force of dynamite on the world and then instituted the Nobel Peace prize.
This is what The Guardian has to say about Mikhail’s brainchild:
Fifty-six years, more than 100m guns, and many millions of dead later, it remains the world’s most prolific killing machine.
I suppose that is as good a sobriquet as any.
The rifle fires 600 rounds a minute, is reliable and available for as little as $30 in some parts of Africa.
And what better proof that your invention has changed the world than the fact that it is available even when everything else is not? Hooray for Death.