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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
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
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)
(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)
(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
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)
(Golding)
Lord of War
(film)
(film)
Los Angeles Times
(newspaper)
(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)
(magazine)
New York Times
(newspaper)
(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
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
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
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)
See
Maschinenpistoles (MP40, German submachine gun, Schmeisser)
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