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ammunition
 
blitzkrieg tactic
 
Soviet Union invasion
 
submachine guns
 
Golding, William
 
Goodman, John
 
Gorbachev, Mikhail
 
Gourevitch, Philip
 
Granda, Rodrigo
 
Grau, Lester W.
 
grease gun (M3 submachine gun)
 
Greenleaf, Simon
 
Guinea
 
Gul, Haji Baz
 
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
 
gun control.
See also
arms trade
 
Gun Control Act of 1968
 
politics of
 
Stockton, California, schoolyard shooting
 
terrorism
 
United Nations
 
Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994
 
weapons marking
 
Gun Control Act of 1968
 
 
Habersack, Herbert
 
Habyarimana, Juvenal
 
Hackworth, David H.
 
Harkins, Paul
 
Hart, Howard
 
Hasenfus, Gene
 
Hassan, Yusuf
 
Heckler & Koch
 
Hellfire antitank missiles
 
Hezbollah
 
Hitler, Adolf
 
Ho Chi Minh
 
Holbrooke, Richard
 
Humvee vehicle
 
Hungary
 
AK-47
 
Soviet invasion of
 
Hussein, Saddam
 
Hussein, Uday
 
Hutu people
 
 
ICE
magazine
 
Ichord, Richard
 
improvised explosive devices (IEDs)
 
India
 
Interceptor Multi-Threat Body Armor System
 
Iran-Contra scandal
 
Iran hostage crisis
 
Iran-Iraq war
 
Iraq war
 
AK-47
 
conduct of
 
initiation of
 
opposition to
 
U.S. occupation
 
Israel
 
arms trade
 
Nicaragua
 
Ivory Coast
 
 
Jackie Brown
(film)
 
Japan
 
Johnson, Lyndon B.
 
Johnson, Yormie
 
Jolie, Angelina
 
 
Kagame, Paul
 
Kalashnikov, Elena
 
Kalashnikov, Mikhail T.
 
AK-47 design
 
biography of
 
cartridges
 
commercial ventures of
 
media and
 
personality of
 
politics and
 
travels of
 
U.S. visit of
 
World War II
 
Kalashnikov, Natasha
 
Kalashnikov, Viktor
 
Kalashnikov, Yekaterina
 
Kalashnikov Joint Stock Vodka Company
 
Kalashnikov Weapons Museum and Exhibition Center (Izhevsk, Russia)
 
Kallay, Foday
 
Kansai, Aimal
 
Kasparov, Gary
 
Kennedy, John F.
 
Kennedy, Robert F.
 
Kenya
 
Kerry, John
 
Khan, Sardar Mohammed Daoud
 
Khe Sanh, siege of (Vietnam)
 
Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah
 
Khrushchev, Nikita
 
Killing Fields, The
(film)
 
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
 
Klare, Michael
 
Koltakov, Andrey
 
Korean War
 
Kouen-Hoven, Gus
 
Kubrick, Stanley
 
Kurz ammunition
 
Kyoto Protocol
 
 
LaPierre, Wayne
 
laser weapons marking
 
Latin America.
See also specific Latin American countries
 
arms trade
 
Colombia
 
drug trade
 
Nicaragua
 
Peru
 
Venezuela
 
law enforcement
 
AK-47 equipment
 
weapons marking
 
lawnmower
 
Lee-Enfield rifle
 
LeMay, Curtis
 
Liberia
 
Libya
 
Livsey, William J., Jr.
 
Longbow radar systems
 
Lord of the Flies
(Golding)
 
Lord of War
(film)
 
Los Angeles Times
(newspaper)
 
Luxembourg, World War II
 
 
Macdonald, Bobby
 
Mackey, Lori
 
Makhanu, Maurice
 
Mao Tse-tung
 
Marken Marketing International (MMI)
 
Maschinenkarabiner (Mkb)
 
Maschinenpistoles (MP40, German submachine gun, Schmeisser)
 
Matasareanu, Emil
 
McNamara, Robert S.
 
Menutis, Jamie
 
M-43 cartridge
 
M-14 rifle
 
Mine Ban Treaty
 
Minin, Leonid
 
Mogadishu, Somalia
 
M1 Carbine
 
M1 Garand (U.S. semiautomatic rifle)
 
M1 steel helmet
 
Monroe, James
 
Montesinos, Vladimiro
 
Mozambique
 
M-16 rifle
 
M3 submachine gun
 
museums
 
 
National Defense Authorization Act of 1997
 
National Firearms Museum, National Rifle Association (NRA)
 
National Rifle Association (NRA)
 
Nawroz, Mohammad Yahya
 
Nesterov, Azariy
 
Netherlands, World War II
 
Newsweek
(magazine)
 
New York Times
(newspaper)
 
Nhu, Ngo Dinh
 
Nicaragua
 
Niccol, Andrew
 
Nigeria
 
Nikonov, Gennady
 
Nikonov, Tatiana
 
nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), arms control
 
North, Oliver L.
 
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
 
North Korea
 
 
Ofcansky, Tom
 
Olin Mathieson Corporation
 
Operation Desert Storm (Persian Gulf War [1991])
 
Ordnance Department (U.S.)
 
Ortega, Daniel
 
 
Pahlavi, Mohammed Reza Shah
 
Pakistan
 
Palestinian Liberation Front
 
Panama
 
Panzer tank
 
Pastrana, Andres
 
Patton, George
 
Perello, Martin
 
Persian Gulf War (1991)
 
Peru
 
Phillips, Larry Eugene, Jr.
 
Pig Boards (tests)
 
Playboy
magazine
 
Ploter, Carlos
 
Poland
 
AK-47
 
Nicaragua
 
World War II
 
Polstar Vodka
 
Poly Technologies
 
Portman Group
 
PPD34/38 (Soviet submachine gun)
 
PP Kurz pistol
 
PPSh41 (Soviet submachine gun)
 
Purdy, Patrick Edward
 
 
Reagan, Ronald
 
recoil
 
Remington Arms Company
 
Remington Model 8
 
Republican Guard (Iraqi defense force)
 
Reutersward, Carl Fredrik
 
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
See
Colombia
 
Reyes, Camilo
 
Ridgway, Matthew B.
 
Roberts, Julia
 
Romania, AK-47
 
Rosenthal, John
 
RPK-74
 
Ruger, William
 
Rumsfeld, Donald
 
Russia.
See also
Soviet Union
 
arms trade
 
United Nations arms control
 
weapons marking
 
Russian Revolution
 
Rwanda
 
 
Saiga (hunting gun)
 
Sakharov, Andrei
 
Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN)
 
Sandino, Augusto
 
Sankoh, Foday
 
Saudi Arabia
 
Schmeisser.
See
Maschinenpistoles (MP40, German submachine gun, Schmeisser)

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