Yo, gun enthusiasts! Buckle up because we’re diving into a juicy tale of Soviet rivalry and American firepower! Picture this: it’s 1961, and the PK machine gun just hit the scene, rolling off production lines the next year. But hold on, the drama’s just starting! Grigory Ivanovich Nikitin and Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov, those legendary names in the world of firearms, were back at it, duking it out after Nikitin’s TKB-521 got the boot in favor of Kalashnikov’s PK in the Soviet’s epic machine gun showdown. And just when you thought it couldn’t get spicier, the Soviets snagged themselves a U.S. M60 machine gun and an M122 tripod. Talk about adding fuel to the fire! Stay tuned, because this Second Amendment saga is just getting started!