Heavy Metal – MP3/Kalashnakov

LONDON
– Audio
Books For Free, a British-based company is selling MP3 players
which
can be attached to an assault rifle.

The "AK-MP3" player is built into the ammunition clip of a Kalashnikov.
It can be swapped with the real magazine carrying bullets and inserted into the
weapon.

The device is being advertised on the internet by a Buckinghamshire-based company
set up by a group of Russian businessmen who sell audio books.

It comes with enough storage space to hold 3000 audio books or 9000 songs.

Former Russian rock star Andrey Koltakov, a partner in the dotcom company offering
the AK-MP3 for sale, said: "This is our bit for world peace – hopefully,
from now on many militants and terrorists will use their AK-47s to listen to
music and audio books."

The accessory costs just over $200 or around $400 with hundreds
of audio books already loaded on to it.

According to those marketing it the stainless
steel body makes it "uniquely
suitable for outdoors".

AK-47s are nicknamed widow-makers and are the favoured choice of killers across
the globe from Marxist guerrillas in Colombia to Saddam Hussein loyalists in
Iraq. They were also used by IRA snipers. They are capable of firing 600 rounds
a minute.

from the The
Sydney Morning Herald

Audio
Books for Free site