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guerrillas, 9–10, 137, 349–50, 370, 387–89

AK and AK-type rifles used by, 5, 7, 9, 265–66, 268, 270, 350, 361, 363–64, 377–80, 387, 410

in El Salvador, 363–64

in Hungarian revolution, 219, 266

in Iraq, 388–89, 393, 396–97

in Soviet-Afghan War, 10

and terrorist attacks on Israel, 349

training of, 300, 380, 396

in Uganda, 356, 373–80

in Vietnam, 9, 264–66, 270, 282–83, 295n, 324, 440n

gunpowder, smokeless, 74, 92, 122, 135

GUNS magazine, 257

Gutfreund, Yossef, 350–51

G. W. Armstrong Company, 54

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Hackett, David S., 266

Haldane, A., 116

Halil Pasha, 42

Hall, James B., 295–96, 301–3, 331

Hallock, Richard R., 281–82, 288, 303–6, 324–25

Hama-Raheem, Ramazan, 392–93, 396–97

Hamas, 11, 384

Harvard University, 271

Heckler & Koch, 384n

Henry Rifled Barrel Company, 76–77

Hezbollah flag, 15, 384

Hill Fights, 310–14, 319, 322

Hiroshima, 144

Hitch, Charles J., 280, 289, 292

Hitler, Adolf, 4, 146, 153, 156, 161, 163–64, 166, 174–75, 185, 338, 355

Hogg, Ian V., 76

Holy Spirit Mobile Forces, 374–75

Hotchkiss gun, 51, 53, 55, 91, 109

in Russo-Japanese War, 114, 116–17

Howard, Oliver O., 61–62

Hoxha, Enver, 343

Human Rights Watch, 14

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

Hungary, 214–15, 371, 382–83, 399

and AK and AK-type rifle production and distribution, 12, 16, 215, 245, 266, 382, 412

casualties in, 227, 239–42

early use of AK-47s in, 219–20, 223–27, 237, 239–41

free elections in, 365

popular revolution in, 9, 218–27, 237–42, 346, 348, 383

Rakoczi Square murder and, 227, 240–41

reprisals against revolutionaries in, 239–42

Soviet invasions and occupations of, 218, 221–22, 224, 226, 237–41, 243, 348, 407, 436n

in World War II, 238

Yugoslav embassy in, 226, 238–39

Hunt, Henry J., 60–61

Hussein, Saddam, 11, 382–83, 388, 398

Hutier, Oskar von, 139

Ichord, Richard H., 310, 315–16, 323, 325–27, 334, 442n

Indianapolis Sentinel, 92

Indians, India, 85, 93, 285–86, 289, 364n

and AK-47 production and distribution, 12, 248, 250

in battle of Tanga, 119–21

Indian wars, 39

Custer in, 58–64

Gatling guns in, 60–62, 64, 90, 93, 425n

Nez Perce in, 61–62

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Indonesia, 251, 258, 437n

Industrial Revolution, 6, 33, 77

Infantry Journal, 132

Ingush terrorists, 340, 385

Iran, 216, 396

and AK-type rifle production and distribution, 12, 361, 390–91

Iran-Iraq War, 396

Iraq, 216, 340, 411–12, 413n

and AK and AK-type rifle production and distribution, 11–12, 16, 248, 361, 391, 411, 444n

assassination attempt in, 388–95

Kurds of, 388–90, 393–98

Marines in, 409

purchase price of AK rifles in, 381–83

wars in, 11, 14, 21, 35, 368n, 383–84, 386, 388, 396–97

Irish Republican Army, 235

Ishaq, Muhammad, 99

Islamic Jihad, 10

Israelis, Israel, 369, 384, 443n–44n

and AK and AK-type rifle production and distribution, 12, 340n, 341, 349

Egyptian peace treaty with, 358

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

terrorist attacks on, 339, 340n, 349–52, 358, 443n

Italy, 81–83

Minin in, 369–70, 411

Ito, Kanemitsu, 328–33

Izhevsk Machine, Engineering, and Motor Plant Complex, 3–4, 207–10, 402–4

AK-47 tests at, 204–5

AK and AK-type rifles manufactured at, 4, 204–5, 207–8, 210, 217, 242, 345, 399, 402, 409, 412, 433n

Brezhnev’s visit to, 344–45

gun works at, 3, 158, 205, 344–45, 398–400, 402, 407

Kalashnikov and, 182n, 205, 209–10, 243–45, 344–45, 398–400, 403–4, 406–7, 436n, 445n

in PK design and development, 243