The Daily Mail
by Will Stewart
January 13, 2014

In the months before his recent death, the world's greatest gun-maker Mikhail Kalashnikov suffered 'unbearable' pain over the lost lives caused by his weapons, an extraordinary new letter reveals.

He sought urgent spiritual guidance from Russia's top churchman on whether he was guilty in the eyes of God, according to his emotional appeal to the Orthodox Patriarch.

Kalashnikov died in December aged 93, but the letter penned eight months earlier from the inventor of the AK-47 showed a startlingly different attitude than his usual practice of blaming politicians for the wars in which his guns were used.

(excerpted)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...l#ixzz2qJOWwlcY