The Gun

Gatling Gun Company, 39, 51–57

finances of, 51–53, 56–57, 87, 149

promotion and sales of, 41, 81–82, 88

Geary, John W., 36

GECO, 162, 166

Geddes, Sir Eric, 130

George I, King of Great Britain, 27

Georgia:

and collapse of Soviet Union, 365–66

M-4s used by, 385–86

purchase price of AK rifles in, 386

German Democratic Republic (East Germany), 214–15, 276

AK and AK-type rifles produced and distributed by, 12–13, 16, 215, 219–20, 245–48, 338, 346, 364

attempted escape from, 346–48

early use of AK-47s in, 219

popular uprising in, 9, 219–20, 222–23

weapons pilfering in, 366–67

weapons stockpiling and, 356, 366–67

German Empire:

automatic rifles used by, 138–40

and Maxim gun and Maxim gun knock-off production, 89–90, 102, 109, 117, 119

Maxim gun demonstration in, 84

Maxim guns used by, 119–21, 127–28, 130–31, 133–34, 426n

special machine-gun units of, 112–13, 117, 134

submachine guns used by, 228

in World War I, 118–20, 123, 127–36, 138–40, 233, 246, 426n

Germany, Federal Republic of (West Germany), 384n

and AK-47 production and distribution, 346

attempted escape to, 346–48

reunification of, 366

terrorism in, 338–40, 350–52, 443n

weapons stockpiling and, 355

Germany, Nazi, 253–55

and AK-47 design and development, 152, 159, 192, 433n

automatic rifles used by, 162–65, 187, 199, 207–8, 253–54, 257

rifle cartridges of, 161–63, 165–67

Soviet occupation of, 159, 214

Soviet Union invaded by, 4, 146, 155–57, 159, 164–65, 168–69, 176–80, 182, 185, 199, 209, 238, 343, 358

submachine guns used by, 169, 179

tanks of, 176–79

weapons stockpiling and, 344, 355

in World War II, 1, 4, 143–44, 146–47, 149, 152–53, 155–57, 159, 163–66, 168–69, 174–80, 182, 185, 199, 209, 214, 238, 253–54, 280, 343–44, 355, 358

Germany, Weimar Republic of, 246

Gettysburg, Battle of, 34

Givvin, Thomas R., 311, 440n, 441n, 442n

Godfrey, Edward S., 41

Gold Coast, 47–48, 54, 56

Gorbachev, Mikhail S., 365

Gordon, Charles, 78, 81, 97

Gorloff, Alexander Pavlovich, 40–42, 48–49

Goryunov gun, 185

Grant, Ulysses S., 52, 57–58

Great Britain, 12n, 30, 73–87, 95, 97–106, 109, 112–13, 364n, 400, 404n

ammunition and, 161, 255–56

Ashanti war and, 47–48, 54, 56

and battle at Abu Klea, 78–81

bayonet training in, 124–27

in fighting at Omdurman, 97–102, 124, 129–30, 255

Gardner guns used by, 79–81, 83

and Gatling gun marketing and sales, 40, 54–58, 62, 67, 149

Gatling guns used, 46–48, 54, 56, 62–65, 78, 124

Gatling gun tests and demonstrations in, 46–48, 66, 76, 83

Lewis guns used by, 126–29, 131

machine-gun units of, 126–27, 131, 137

in Matabele War, 86–87

Maxim gun design and, 82

Maxim gun marketing and sales in, 83–84

Maxim gun production in, 89

Maxim guns used by, 85–87, 97–102, 105–6, 112, 119–20, 124

Maxim gun tests and demonstrations in, 76, 83–84

Maxim’s life in, 68, 73–78, 83, 89, 135, 369

mitrailleurs and, 43–44, 46

on morality of machine guns, 103, 105

Puckle’s rapid-fire flintlock and, 27–28

Russo-Japanese War and, 116

and siege of Khartoum, 78

and skepticism about machine guns, 53–54, 62, 112

submachine guns used by, 258, 355

Vickers guns used by, 126–31

weapons profiteering and, 32–33

weapons stockpiling and, 355

in World War I, 118–36, 255

Yonnie insurgency and, 84–85

in Zulu War, 62–65, 87

Great Depression, 236

Great Lakes Naval Hospital, 314

Great Terror, 222, 348

Grechko, Andrei A., 201

Greeley, Horace, 32

Greene, Wallace M., Jr.:

Chervenak’s letter and, 327

M-16 and, 320, 327, 329

on Stoner 63, 292

Grey Goose, 404n

Griesmer, Bruce E., 266