Your favourite weapons - Soviet/Russian

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Originally Posted by Silent Hunter UK

The AK series is also simple to use: children can (and sadly do) use it easily.

I know that people use this saying all the time to say how great it is, but not sure what it really has to do with that. 200 years ago most kids (male at least) used firearms that are very easy to use, but also take more maintenance and my understanding is that keeping them maintained was not a big issue.