The Gun

Attleboro, Operation, 302

Auma, Alice, 373–77, 379

Austria, 109, 239

automatic and assault rifles, 137–40

ammunition of, 138–39, 155, 160–67, 169–70, 184–85, 195–97

destruction of, 411–13

of Fedorov, 138, 165–68, 193

gas operation in, 108, 145, 188, 190, 196, 198, 242, 257, 275, 294

of Germany, 138–40, 162–65, 187, 199, 207–8, 253–54, 257

ideal traits for, 197–98

Maxim’s sketches for, 75, 137, 423n

of NATO, 256–58, 296, 364

of Schmeisser, 139, 163–65, 207–8, 254

of Sudayev, 155–56, 187–88, 192

U.S. laws on, 14–15, 18, 236

U.S. search for suitable, 6–7, 20, 253–54, 256, 270, 272–76, 280, 283–94, 360, 438n, 442n

of Vollmer, 162, 166

in World War I, 138–40, 163, 167, 267

in World War II, 155, 163–66, 253–54, 280, 295

see also submachine guns; specific automatic and assault rifles

Auto-Ordnance Corporation, 139, 233–34, 236, 279

AVH (Hungarian State Security Police), 222, 227, 239–40

Avramenko, Andrei, 360

Avtomat Kalashnikova-46 (AK-46), 192

Avtomat Kalashnikova-47 see AK-47, AK-type assault rifles

Avtomat Kalashnikova-74 see AK-74

Avtomat Kalashnikova Modernizirovanny, see AKM

Azerbaijan, 365, 382, 408

B

Badri, Shaykh Babikr, 99

Baggara, 101–2

Baku, 220, 365

Balassa, Janos, murder of, 227, 240–43

Baldwin, Gerald L., 333

ball powder, 293–94, 297, 301, 303–4, 316, 326

Barbarossa, Operation, 156

Barnesboro Star, 323, 442n

Basayev, Shamil, 225

Batista, Fulgencio, 364

battery guns, see Gatling gun

Bear Chain, Operation, 264, 318, 329

Beavers, Jack, 333

BEF (British Expeditionary Force), 118–19, 134

Behrendt, David, 301–2, 331

Beldushkin, Anatoly, 353–54

Belgium, 43, 258n

FAL rifle distribution and, 364n

weapons stockpiling and, 355

in World War I, 118

Belknap, William W., 52

Bell, J. Franklin, 118

Belloc, Hilaire, 103

Benet-Marcie gun, 252

Benke, Paul A., 299, 330–32

Beresford, Lord Charles, 79–81

Bergmann, Theodor, 139

Beria, Lavrenty, 212–13

arrest and execution of, 213, 221, 245

automatic rifle ammunition and, 166

Hungarian policy and, 221

Soviet atomic bomb development and, 1–3, 148

Berlin, 40, 338

and AK-47 production and distribution, 248

arms pilfering in, 367

popular uprisings in, 219–20, 222–23

Berlin Wall, 346–47, 365–66

Beslan, terrorist siege in, 340, 385

bin Laden, Osama, 11, 225, 383, 396

blacks, racism and, 105–6, 425n–27n

Black September, 338–39, 350–52

Blagonravov, Anatoly A., 182–83

Bolotin, D. N., 189

Borey, David C., 314–15

Bosnia, 220

Boutelle, Richard S., 274–75, 306

AR-15 and, 277, 279

Boxer Uprising, 113

Brabeck, Michael, 397

Bray, William G., 326

Brazil, 53

Bren gun, 258

Brezhnev, Leonid I., 18, 344–46

eyebrows of, 353–54

Izhevsk visited by, 344–45

NIPSMVO’s closure and, 345–46

Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 397

British Expeditionary Force (BEF), 134

Maxim gun used by, 119

in World War I, 118–19

British South Africa Corporation, 86

Broadwell, L. W., 42, 51

Browning, John Moses, 138, 145

gas-operated automatic of, 108

prototypes of, 108

stockpiling rifles of, 355

Browning Brothers Armory, 108, 293

“Brown Man’s Burden, The” (Labouchere), 104