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FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 29, 1997 file photo Mikhail Kalashnikov shows a model of his world-famous AK-47 assault rifle at home in the Ural Mountain city of Izhevsk, 1000 km (625 miles) east of Moscow. The designer of the world’s most prolific firearm, the AK-47 assault rifle, has written a sorrowful letter to the Russian Orthodox Church’s head, asking if he’s to blame for the deaths of those killed by his creation. According to a Monday, Jan. 13, 2014 report in the daily Izvestia, several months before his death last month at age 94, Kalashnikov wrote to Patriarch Kirill that he keeps asking himself if he’s responsible for those deaths. (AP Photo/Vladimir Vyatkin, File)

Mikhail Kalashnikov: Late AK-47 creator writes that ‘soul aches’ over invention

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 29, 1997 file photo Mikhail Kalashnikov shows a model of his world-famous AK-47 assault rifle at home in the Ural Mountain city of Izhevsk, 1000 km (625 miles) east of Moscow. The designer of the world’s most prolific firearm, the AK-47 assault rifle, has written a sorrowful letter to the Russian Orthodox Church’s head, asking if he’s to blame for the deaths of those killed by his creation. According to a Monday, Jan. 13, 2014 report in the daily Izvestia, several months before his death last month at age 94, Kalashnikov wrote to Patriarch Kirill that he keeps asking himself if he’s responsible for those deaths. (AP Photo/Vladimir Vyatkin, File)

AK-47 designer Kalashnikov wrote penitent letter

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a memorial service for Russian firearms designer Mikhail Kalashnikov in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Dec. 27, 2013. Kalashnikov died on Dec. 23 at the age of 94. His work as a weapons designer for the Soviet Union is immortalized in the name of the world's most popular firearm, the AK-47 assault rifle, which is often called "a Kalashnikov." (AP Photo/Sergei Chirikov, Pool)

TORSHIN: Kalashnikov, the man and the weapon

By Alexandr Torshin

Man and machine: Gen. Mikhail Kalashnikov, whose work as a weapons designer for the Soviet Union is immortalized in the name of the world's most popular firearm, died Monday. (Associated Press)

Kalashnikov, designer of revolutionary AK-47 assault rifle, dies in Russia

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times