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Authorities recovered more than 100 assault-rifle shells.
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This was war in the assault-rifle era; the NVA volume of rifle fire was intensive enough that the company needed heavy fire support.
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To hide the work, assault-rifle production was classified and compartmentalized.
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Just about everything had happened except what should have happened: an objective and open competition for assault-rifle design, with multiple submissions and a careful evaluation, which is what the Soviet Union had organized two decades before.
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Between these deals and the rolling openings of assault-rifle assembly lines in the Warsaw Pactiii the Kremlin had ensured production of the Kalashnikov at a scale no other firearm had ever seen.
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My understanding of the consequences of assault-rifle proliferation, and the continued use of Kalashnikov rifles as instruments of state repression, was helped by Natasha Estemirova and Anna Politkovskaya in Russia, and Alisher Saipov in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.
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It managed to point to the future perils of assault-rifle proliferation.
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The weapons were to expedite assault-rifle training.
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This might have been a valid conclusion, had American industry been involved in assault-rifle development in any robust sense.
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But the Russian vodka market was as crowded as the international assault-rifle trade.
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