The Gun

Modern Traveler, The (Belloc), 103

Molot joint stock company, 400

Molotov, Vyacheslav, 212n, 219n, 221

Molotov cocktails, 219

Montigny, Joseph, 43, 46, 55

Moore, Harold G., Jr., 294–95

Morning Post, 97

mortars, 11, 216, 246, 253, 367

of LRA, 379

in Vietnam, 264, 311, 313, 317

in World War I, 121, 123, 132, 267

Morton, A. C., 103

Morton, Oliver P., 29–30

Mosin-Nagant rifle:

ammunition of, 169

in Hungarian revolution, 219

production and distribution of, 155, 169, 216–17, 219, 357

Mozambique flag, 15, 384

MP-5 (Maschinenpistole 5), 384n

MP-18 (Maschinenpistole 18), 139–40, 163–64, 228

MP-43 (Maschinenpistole 43), 164

MPiK (Maschinen Pistole Kalashnikov), 16, 247

mujahideen, 10, 13, 361–62

Mukhabarat, 349

Muller, Mark, 15

Mumbai, terrorist raid in, 340

Munich Olympics, terrorism at, 337–40, 350–52, 443n

Museveni, Yoweri, 374, 379

musket balls, 27, 33

muzzle velocity, 167, 198, 252–53, 284, 291, 293, 383

My Life (Maxim), 135

N

Nadezhda, 1–2

Nagasaki, 1, 144

Nagorno-Karabakh, war for, 408

Nagy, Imre, 237–39

arrest and execution of, 239, 437n

Hungarian revolution and, 222–24, 226, 238

and Hungary’s attempt to withdraw from Warsaw Pact, 237

Napoleon III, Emperor of France, 43–45

Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 216, 349, 358

Nasution, Abdul Haris, 258

National Firearms Act, 18, 236

National Rifle Association (NRA), 298

National Security Council, 237

Native Americans, see Indian wars

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), 6, 169, 214, 249–50, 255–58, 352

automatic rifles used by, 256–58, 296, 364

FAL rifle distribution and, 364

M-16 and, 296

standardizing ammunition and arms of, 255–57, 275, 296, 436n, 444n

Nature, 54

Navy, Union, 30

Navy, U.S., 88, 110, 272, 314–16

Gatling gun and, 40, 52–54

Vietnam and, 264, 315–16

Ndebele, 86–87, 103

needle gun (zundnadelgewehr), 42

Netherlands, 40, 246, 400

and AK-47 production and distribution, 250, 257–59

New York Times:

on Civil War draft protests, 31–32

on Gatling gun, 47

Maxim’s article in, 135, 423n

New York Tribune, 32

New York University, 230

Nez Perce, 61–62

Nicholas II, Czar of Russia, 113, 165, 170

Nickelson, Alfred J., 263–64, 267, 316–18, 324

Nikitin, Grigory I., 243

NIPSMVO (Research and Proving Grounds for Firearms and Mortars), 143–48, 256

AK-47 testing at, 199–201, 205

and AK and AK-type rifle design and development, 144, 146–48, 159–60, 187, 189–91, 202, 205, 345

closure of, 345–46

Kalashnikov at, 143–48, 183–87

NKVD (People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs), 156, 158, 166

Nobel, Alfred, 390

Gatling’s quarrels with, 51–52, 55, 74

Maxim’s quarrels with, 74

Nonte, George, 297

Nordenfelt, Thorsten, 86

Nordenfelt gun, 75

automatic, 109

competition of, 53, 83–84, 86

tests and demonstrations of, 53, 84

Norinco, 399

North Atlantic Treaty Organization, see NATO

North Korea, see Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of

NRA (National Rifle Association), 298

nuclear programs:

of Soviet Union, 1–5, 148, 203, 359–60, 407–8

of U.S., 1, 4–5, 144, 272

nuclear war, 4, 271

Nugent, Edward, 35, 420n

O

Ocira, Walter, 337

October Revolution, 156, 167, 170, 193, 351

Okwera, Jimmy, 372–73