Eugene Stoner and Mikhail Kalashnikov Discussing the AR-15

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Great series of videos on that channel, I've watched them before but it's always cool to revisit. Not sure how interesting this crowd will find it.

I'm glad that these interviews were able to be recorded during the brief window in time where both these guys were still alive and US-Russia relations were less tense.

The interviewer here, Edward Ezell was a friend of one of my dad's colleagues and I happened to come into a signed copy of one of his books through him. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Ezell

I started watching firearms videos few years ago, mostly Forgotten Weapons (https://www.youtube.com/@ForgottenWeapons) and the problems and tradeoffs encountered in designing firearms (both politics and UX) are very similar to those I've encountered with software.

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