As an American who has been raised during the most recent conflict in the Middle East, I have been conditioned by military video games and various media outlets to associate the AK47 as a weapon used by terrorists or other no-faced bad guys. While it may not be a purposeful to do so, every time the weapon is shown with one of these groups, it reinforces the mental connection between the two, and makes me associate all ideals of the group to the weapon, making the weapon seem inherently "evil".