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Authors: Larry Kahaner

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Schmeisser, Hugo
 
Scott, George C.
 
Scud missile
 
Secord, Richard V.
 
Sevaastyanov, Igor
 
Sheikh, Aftab
 
Shpagin, Georgy
 
Sierra Leone
 
Simonov, Sergei
 
Singlaub, John K.
 
SKS (Soviet rifle)
 
Slocombe, Walter
 
Smith & Wesson
 
Soghanalian, Sarkis
 
Soldier of Fortune
magazine
 
Somalia
 
Somoza Garcia, Anastasio
 
Sopranos, The
(TV show)
 
South Africa
 
Soviet Union.
See also
Russia
 
Afghanistan
 
AK-47
 
automatic rifles
 
cold war
 
collapse of
 
Hungary
 
Nicaragua
 
Russian Revolution
 
submachine guns
 
warfare
 
World War II
 
Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers’ Institute (SAAMI)
 
Springfield Armory
 
Stalin, Josef
 
stamping.
See
weapons marking
 
Starck, Philippe
 
Stinger missiles
 
Stockton, California, schoolyard shooting
 
Stoner, Eugene M.
 
Stop Handgun Violence
 
Strickland, Ted
 
Studler, Rene
 
Stuff
magazine
 
Sturmgewehr (Maschinenkarabiner [Mkb])
 
submachine guns
 
Germany
 
Maschinenpistoles, MP40
 
physics of
 
Soviet Union
 
Sudayev, Alexei
 
Sugarmann, Josh
 
Sullivan, George
 
Sunday Times Style
magazine
 
Syria, weapons marking
 
 
Taliban
 
Taraki, Nur Muhammad
 
Tarantino, Quentin
 
Taylor, Charles
 
arms trade
 
biography of
 
child soldiers
 
diamond trade
 
indictment of
 
Liberia civil war
 
Liberia invaded by
 
Taylor, Maxwell
 
terrorism, gun control
 
T-44 cartridge
 
Thompson, Emma
 
Thompson submachine gun (“Tommy Gun”)
 
Togo
 
Tolbert, William
 
Tonkin, Gulf of
 
Truman, Harry S.
 
Truman Show, The
(film)
 
TsNIITochmash (Central Institute for Precision Machine Building)
 
Turkey, AK-47
 
Tutsi people
 
 
Uganda
 
Ukraine
 
AK-47
 
United Kingdom
 
Africa
 
ammunition
 
United Nations
 
Afghanistan war (Soviet Union)
 
AK-47
 
arms control
 
arms trade
 
children
 
diamond trade
 
Latin America
 
Rwanda genocide
 
Somalia
 
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
 
United States
 
Afghanistan
 
Afghanistan invasion (Soviet Union)
 
ammunition
 
AR-15 rifle
 
AR-10 rifle
 
Iraq war
 
Liberia
 
M-14 rifle
 
M1 Garand (U.S. semiautomatic rifle)
 
Nicaragua
 
Peru
 
Rwanda genocide
 
Somalia
 
United Nations arms control
 
Venezuela
 
Vietnam
 
Vietnam War
 
warfare
 
weapons marking
 
U.S. Army Materiel Command
 
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
 
Uzi submachine gun
 
 
Vance, Cyrus
 
Venezuela
 
Vietnam
 
France
 
United States
 
Vietnam War
 
AK-47
 
AR-15 rifle
 
end of
 
Khe Sanh, siege of
 
M-16 rifle
 
United States
 
Vines, Alex
 
Violence Policy Center
 
Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994
 
vodka
 
 
Walker, William
 
Wallace, George
 
Walther, Carl
 
Walther PPK pistol
 
warfare
 
Afghanistan invasion (Soviet Union)
 
AK-47
 
China
 
Soviet Union
 
United States
 
Vietnam War
 
Washington, George
 
weapons marking, gun control
 
Westmoreland, William
 
West Side Boys (child soldiers)
 
Whittaker, Ron
 
Williams, Willie
 
Wolf, Bill
 
Woolsey, James
 
World War I
 
World War II
 
blitzkrieg tactic
 
end of
 
Kalashnikov, Mikhail T.
 
M1 Garand (U.S. rifle)
 
Soviet Union
 
Wyman, William G.
 
XM-8 rifle
 
 
Yelinek, Shimon
 
Yeltsin, Boris
 
Young, Mark
 
 
Zingo, Nick
 

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