Well yeah, obviously it can, question answered, let's move on. Do they pay you for this? (I have developed a condition called bloggolalia where you hear comments in your head before people post them).
But this isn't just any lethal weapon. This is the Soviet Union's Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle, developed in the 1940s for the Arctic, and popular with assault rifle users everywhere.
A Kalashnikov has just been acquired by London's Design Museum.
To experience the edgy quality of this choice by the Design Museum, which is building up its collection of "classics" before moving to bigger premises in 2014, try googling the Kalashnikov. Even reading its Wikipedia entry, or the Kalashnikov home page that explains the gun's origins in the second world war and the military design genius of Kalashnikov himself, makes you feel you have crossed an invisible line into the world of terrorists and lone assassins. It is a bit unsettling. The Kalashnikov is a cult object but not in the same way as the magazine The Face or the Sony Walkman, two more new acquisitions by the Design Museum. Full Read
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