The Gun

fedayeen, 349–50, 358, 384–85

Fedorov, Vladimir Grigorevich, 180, 185

automatic rifle ammunition and, 165–66

automatic rifle of, 138, 165–68, 193

F.E.G., 399

Fejes, Jozsef Tibor, 236–42

AK-47 of, 225–27, 237, 239–42, 383

arrest and trial of, 240–41

execution of, 242

and Soviet invasion of Hungary, 238–39

Fieschi, Giuseppe, 27, 390

Finland, 9, 12, 166, 248–51 257FMLN (Farabundo Marti Liberation Front), 363–64

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

Folger, William, 54–55

Fosbery, G. V., 44–45, 55–56

France, 103, 109–10, 252

and AK-47 production and distribution, 338, 340n

in Franco-Prussian War, 44–46, 53–55, 65, 110

and Maxim gun marketing and sales, 83, 421n

Maxim gun production in, 89

mitrailleur of, 43–46, 55, 421n

rifle cartridges of, 161

weapons stockpiling and, 355

in World War I, 118, 122, 124–25, 127, 130–32, 246

in World War II, 161

Franco-Prussian War, 44–46, 53–55, 65

casualties in, 45, 110

Fremont, Robert D., 299, 303, 331

Frink, Otis, 26, 418n

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G-3, 384n

Galil, 444n

Galileo, 406

Galili, Yisrael, 12, 444n

Garand, John C., 202

AK-46 design and, 192

M1 of, see M1 Garand

Gardner, William, 64–66, 390

Gardner gun, 51, 91, 109

ammunition of, 68, 81

and battle at Abu Klea, 79–81, 83

casualties inflicted by, 80–81

competition of, 64–66, 83

design of, 75, 81

jamming of, 80–81, 83, 112, 299

marketing and sales of, 83

production of, 66, 299

size and weight of, 83

tests of, 53, 66

Gatling, Richard J., 40–43, 111, 136, 209, 228, 369, 390, 392

alleged Confederate sympathies of, 33, 419n

Ashanti War and, 54

and casualties inflicted by Gatling gun, 63

Civil War and, 35, 418n

death of, 109

finances of, 50–53, 56–57, 109, 149, 160

Gardner’s rivalry with, 66

in Gatling gun design and development, 8, 25–26, 28–29, 31, 33, 42, 52–53, 69, 76, 88, 107, 160, 234, 387, 418n

Gatling gun patent and, 26, 28, 33–34

Gatling gun production and, 30–31, 37

in Gatling gun promotion and sales, 25–27, 31–33, 34–38, 40, 43, 47, 51–54, 56–57, 66–67, 91, 149, 160, 202, 421n–22n

Gatling gun tests and, 41–42, 50, 53

Nobel’s quarrels with, 51–52, 55, 74

Gatling gun, 25–67, 90–97, 111–12, 136

accuracy of, 29–30

ammunition of, 29, 31–32, 36, 38, 40–42, 46, 50, 52, 67, 88, 90, 92–93, 95

Ashanti war and, 47–48, 54, 56, 78

casualties inflicted by, 48, 50, 57–58, 63–64, 95, 111

Civil War and, 25–26, 30–33, 35–37, 91, 94, 112

competition of, 43–46, 51, 53, 55–57, 64–67, 83–84, 87–88

decline of, 87–88, 109

design and development of, 8, 25–26, 28–29, 31, 33, 35, 39, 42–43, 49, 52–53, 69, 75–76, 82, 88, 107, 153– 54, 160, 234, 387, 418n, 420n

effectiveness and reliability of, 29, 39–40, 65, 96–97

ferocity and power of, 41–42, 47–48, 92

finances of, 93

Fosbery on, 55–56

in Franco-Prussian War, 44, 53–54

in Indian wars, 60–62, 64, 90, 93, 425n

in Italian campaign in Ethiopia, 81–82

jamming of, 65, 67, 82–83, 94, 112, 299

miniaturization of, 88

patent of, 26, 28, 33–34

physical appearance of, 28–29

precursors of, 26–30

prison breaks prevented by, 91–92

production and distribution of, 25–27, 30–33, 35–43, 46–48, 51–58, 62–67, 78, 81–83, 88, 91–95, 97, 124, 149, 160, 167, 202, 277, 299, 421n–22n

prototypes of, 26, 30, 37

Roosevelt on, 96–97

size and weight of, 8, 30, 36, 56, 83, 88, 234

in Spanish-American War, 90, 92–93, 95–97, 229, 252

tactical uses of, 37, 41–42, 46, 52, 56, 61, 90, 93–94

tests and demonstrations of, 29–32, 37–44, 46–48, 50, 53, 66, 84, 425n

training on, 90–91, 93–94

Yomuds repulsed by, 49, 57–58, 61

in Zulu War, 62–65, 83, 124