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weapons standardization and, 364–65, 408

weapons stockpiling and, 13, 349

World War II and, 156, 246

Congo, Democratic Republic of, 248, 357, 371, 379–80

Congress, U.S.:

Gatling gun purchases and, 52–53

on Indian wars, 61

M-16 and, 296, 304, 310, 314–16, 321, 323, 325–27, 331, 334, 356, 442n

on ownership of automatic rifles, 14, 236

Constitution, U.S., 17–18

Cooper Fire Arms Manufacturing Company, 37

Cooper-MacDonald, Inc., 277–78

Cote d’Ivoire, 370

criminals, criminal gangs, 70

AK and AK-type rifles used by, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13–14, 17, 268, 340, 378n, 387, 408–10, 413

illegal-arms transfers and, 371

and Thompson submachine gun production and distribution, 233–36, 279

Crocker, Ryan, 388

Cuba:

and AK and AK-type rifle production and distribution, 9, 340, 406

FAL rifle distribution and, 364

Gatling guns purchased by, 53

in Spanish-American War, 90, 93–95, 424n

Cuban Missile Crisis, 5

CUCKWAGON, 20

Culver, Richard O., Jr., 266–67, 321, 329

Cummings, Samuel, 354–56, 358, 363, 369

Curran, William J., 297

Custer, George A.:

Gatling guns rejected by, 60–61, 64, 92

in Indian Wars, 58–64

Czechoslovakia, 174, 214, 216, 348–49

AK-type rifle production resisted by, 281n, 434n

Prague Spring in, 348

standard rifle of, 340n, 349

Velvet Revolution of, 365

D

Daoud, Abu, 443n

De Cristoforis, Tomasso, 82

Defense Department, U.S., 254–59, 268–71, 274–75, 413

and AK-47 design and development, 270, 280

and AK-47 production and distribution, 251, 259, 265, 268

ammunition and, 255–57

AR-15 and, 274, 280, 284, 288–89, 292, 296

on asymmetric war, 14

atomic bomb and, 144

M-16 and, 269–71, 292–93, 295, 303–5, 307, 313, 319, 323, 330–34, 415–16

purchase prices of AK rifles for, 386

systems analysis in, 271

see also War Department, U.S.

Degtyarev, Vasily A., 158, 185, 188, 192–95

and AK-47 design and development, 185, 193–94

Deikin, Vladimir S., 188, 191, 192

Dementyev, Aleksandr A., 187

DeMille, Roy, 312–13

Deutsche Waffen and Munitions Fabrik, 119

Dogali, 81–83

Dominick, Peter H., 315

Dong Van Khuyen, 332

Dragunov, Evgeny Fedorovich, 16, 166n, 244, 364, 433n, 436n

Dubcek, Alexander, 348

Dulles, Allen, 237, 238

Dyer, Alexander B., 38–39, 41

Dziemian, Arthur J., 285–88

E

East Germany, see German Democratic Republic

East Panlung, Japanese assault on, 115

Edison, Thomas, 68, 71

Edwards, William B., 257–58, 437n

Egypt, 56, 78, 354–55, 357–58

and AK and AK-type rifle production and distribution, 12–13, 16, 250, 341, 349, 357, 387, 390–91

in fighting at Omdurman, 97, 129–30

Gatling guns sold to, 42

Israeli peace treaty with, 358

Israeli wars with, 12, 216, 341, 355, 358

Sadat’s assassination in, 10, 354, 358

Soviet relations with, 216–17

and terrorist attacks on Israel, 349–50, 358

Elizarov, Nikolai, 166

Elrod, Claude E.:

Chervenak’s letter and, 321, 323

Vietnam and, 266–67, 317, 321, 323, 335–36

El Salvador, war in, 363–64

Encyclopedia of Arms (Fedorov), 180

Engels, Friedrich, 201

ERMA, 246

Ethiopia, Italian campaign in, 81–82

F

Fabrique-Nationale de Herstal (FN), 258, 364, 444n

Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corporation, 274–75, 277, 278n, 296

FAL, 364, 444n

Fallows, James, 326n

Farabundo Marti Liberation Front (FMLN), 363–64

FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), 384

Farouk I, King of Egypt, 349, 358

Fatah, 10, 350

Fechter, Peter, 346–48