User blog comment:JoeRamirez/Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Weapons Wishlist./@comment-82.147.59.30-20110702060703/@comment-1431679-20110704214819

Honestly it was a little hard to pronounce, the original name. I can say it much easier though than before now because I speak a tiny bit of Polish. It's not the same but they're both Slavic.

Maybe the AK slang was for ease of pronunciation or to shorten it? Because the AA-12 was originally Atchisson Assault-12 among other weapons. Also I was reading about the AK-74, it doesn't say Avtomat Kalashnikova anywhere. So when the AK-74 was given the number they changed it to AK? I'm not entirely sure because I never researched on the AK-74 for some reason.