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There are so many mistakes and outright false information in this article I have a hard time reposting it, but it is an interesting story:
Valuable WWII Gun at Police Buy-Back
By Annie Rose Ramos | ABC News Blogs - Mon, Dec 10, 2012 9:21 PM EST
(Image credit: NECN)Just like a scene out of "Antiques Roadshow," a woman in Hartford, Conn., turned in an old rifle to her local police station's gun buy-back, only to discover the gun was worth anywhere from $20,000 to $25,000. The woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, inherited the gun from her father who had brought it home with him from Europe as a memento from World War II.
The two officers conducting the gun buy-back, who are resident gun experts for the Hartford Police Department, informed the owner she was in possession of a Nazi Assault Rifle, the first of its kind, that dates back to 1944.
The gun is called a Sturmgewehr 44, literally meaning "storm rifle," and is the first "modern assault rifle ever made, eventually replaced by the AK 47 in 1947 by Russia, who copied the German design of the Sturmgewehr 44," Officer Lewis Crabtree, one of the two officers who discovered the gun, told ABC News.
http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blog...-buy-back-022155231--abc-news-topstories.html
1. The Sturmgewehr was never "replaced" by the AK-47, the rifles were in fact from different armies and different countries who were mortal enemies during WWII.
2. The AK-47 does not steal design elements from the STG-44. In fact, the AK-47 owes more of its rotating bolt system to the M-1 Garand, which Kalishnikov admitted he copied.
2. 7.92x39mm ammunition is available from several sources.
Valuable WWII Gun at Police Buy-Back
By Annie Rose Ramos | ABC News Blogs - Mon, Dec 10, 2012 9:21 PM EST
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The two officers conducting the gun buy-back, who are resident gun experts for the Hartford Police Department, informed the owner she was in possession of a Nazi Assault Rifle, the first of its kind, that dates back to 1944.
The gun is called a Sturmgewehr 44, literally meaning "storm rifle," and is the first "modern assault rifle ever made, eventually replaced by the AK 47 in 1947 by Russia, who copied the German design of the Sturmgewehr 44," Officer Lewis Crabtree, one of the two officers who discovered the gun, told ABC News.
http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blog...-buy-back-022155231--abc-news-topstories.html
1. The Sturmgewehr was never "replaced" by the AK-47, the rifles were in fact from different armies and different countries who were mortal enemies during WWII.
2. The AK-47 does not steal design elements from the STG-44. In fact, the AK-47 owes more of its rotating bolt system to the M-1 Garand, which Kalishnikov admitted he copied.
2. 7.92x39mm ammunition is available from several sources.