The Gun

Broz, Josip (Tito), 9, 157, 250

Bryukhanon, Oleg, 360

Budapest:

popular revolution in, 218–20, 222–27, 237–38, 266, 383

Rakoczi Square murder in, 227, 240–41

Soviet assault in, 238

Bulgaria, 214–15, 348, 365, 399

and AK and AK-type rifle production and distribution, 12–13, 215, 245, 358, 412

Bulkin, Aleksei A., 187–88, 190–92, 431n, 436n

Burkina Faso, 369–70

Bush, George W., 388

Butler, Benjamin F., 30–32, 36–37, 94, 418n–19n

C

Cachourin, Captain, 49

Cadillac Gage, 292–93

Cambodia, 11, 294

Cambridge, Duke of, 47, 78

Camel gun, 88

Cao Van Vien, 282

Castro, Fidel, 9, 225, 340, 364, 383–84

Ceausescu, Nicolae, 365

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 237, 361, 383–84

Chancellorsville, Battle of, 34

Chater, Alfred, 118, 122

Chechens, Chechnya, 365

and AK and AK-type rifle production and distribution, 340, 382

in Beslan siege, 340, 385

purchase price of AK rifles in, 382

Chekhov, Anton, 401

Chelmsford, Frederic Thesiger, Lord, 64–66

on tactical use of machine guns, 65–66

in Zulu War, 62, 64–65

Chernobyl, 360

Chervenak, Michael P., 318–19

letter written by, 321–24, 327–28, 443n

Vietnam and, 266, 318, 321–24, 327–28, 442n

Cheyenne, 58–59, 61

Chiang Kai-shek, 216, 355

Chickamauga, Battle of, 34

child soldiers:

AK-47s used by, 7, 9, 14, 340, 377–79, 387

in Uganda, 337, 372–73, 376–79

Chile, 355, 383

China, Nationalist, 216, 355

China, People’s Republic of, 15–17, 174, 399–400, 409–12

and AK and AK-type rifle production and distribution, 12–13, 15–16, 216–17 220, 257, 265, 308–10, 342–43, 361, 381–82, 391, 409, 412, 434n, 435n

Vietnam War and, 308

weapons stockpiling of, 410–11

Chinese Empire, 53, 56

Christians, Christianity, 27, 103–5

Chritton, Charles P., 324–25, 441n, 442n

Chubais, Anatoly B., 406n

Chu Lai, firefight near, 333–34

Churchill, Winston, 97, 99–102

CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), 237, 361, 383–84

Civil War, 28–40, 64, 137–38, 418n–20n

ammunition in, 33–34

casualties in, 25, 34–35, 418n

end of, 39–40

Gatling gun and, 25–26, 30–33, 35–37, 91, 94, 112

Maxim and, 70–71, 73–74

protests against draft in, 31–32

standardizing weapons in, 32–33, 419n

Union Repeating Guns in, 36, 420n

Cleaveland, Paul S., 274

Cold War, 1–7, 21, 169, 211, 242, 271–73, 341–44, 363, 410

and AK and AK-type rifle design and development, 203, 223

and AK and AK-type rifle production and distribution, 3–5, 13, 203–4, 215, 248, 341–42

illegal-arms transfers and, 369, 371

Soviet atomic bomb and, 1–2, 4–5

Soviet European satellites in, 214

and U.S. search for suitable automatic rifle, 272–73, 285

weapons stockpiling and, 13, 343–44, 354, 356, 387

Colglazier, R. W., Jr., 289

Colombia, 384

Colt firearms company, 19, 138, 291–93, 231n

AR-15 and, 277–80, 283, 291, 296, 441n

Chevernak’s letter and, 323, 327–28

Gatling gun and, 39, 51, 57, 66

M-16 and, 292, 295–97, 299–303, 307, 310, 312, 315, 323–32, 353, 385n, 416, 441n

Model 1895 and, 108, 111, 145

Communist Party, communists, 3–4, 18–19, 185–86, 196, 210–13, 244–46, 307–9

agricultural policies of, 170–72

AK-47 publicity and, 211n

and AK and AK-type rifle design and development, 4, 7, 149, 153, 191

and AK and AK-type rifle production and distribution, 3, 13, 246, 268, 308–9, 340, 363

AK rifle as symbol of, 385

atomic bomb and, 144

collapse of, 152, 356, 365–67, 406

and escaping from East Germany, 347

Hungarian policy and, 220–21

Kalashnikov and, 4, 146–47, 174–76, 181–82, 185, 191, 210–11, 213, 244–45

in Korean War, 264

Prague Spring and, 348

purges in, 156, 210

Russian civil war and, 156, 170, 193

in Vietnam, 264, 294, 332