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Okwera, Patrick, 372–73

Okwonga, Dennis, 379

Olivier, Alfred G., 285–88

Omar, Mullah Mohammed, 386–87

Omdurman:

casualties in, 98–102

fighting at, 97–102, 107–9, 119, 124, 129–30, 165, 252, 255

Maxim guns at, 97–102, 107–8, 124, 165, 252

“On the Personality Cult and Its Consequences” (Khrushchev), 244

Operations Research Office, 254

Ottoman Empire, 42

Owen, J. F., 58, 62

Owen, Wilfred, 136

Owoosoo, Quamina, 48

Pakistan, Pakistanis, 100, 380–83, 386n

and AK and AK-type rifle production and distribution, 11–12, 361–62

purchase prices of AK rifles in, 381, 383

Palestinians, 384

and AK and AK-type rifle production and distribution, 338–39, 349–52, 387

in Munich Olympics terrorism, 337–39, 350–52

P

Palmer, William, 35, 420n

Parker, John H.:

machine-gun training and, 90–91, 93–94, 110–11

machine-gun units proposed by, 110, 112

in Spanish-American War, 93–97, 107–8, 117, 228, 424n

on tactical uses of machine guns, 90, 93–94, 110, 117, 131, 424n

Patent Office, U.S., 26

Pchelintsev, U. I., 191

Pederson rounds, 169–70, 253, 256

Pedraza, Lance Corporal, 312

Pentagon, see Defense Department, U.S.

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

Peshko, I. D., 360

Philadelphia Polyclinic Hospital, 230

Philippines, 355, 384

U.S. invasion of, 104, 111, 252

Pinchback, Pinckney, 106

PK (Pulemyot Kalashnikova), 16, 166n, 243–44, 436n

PLO, 10

PMKM, 16

Poland, 166, 174, 214–15, 348, 399

and AK and AK-type rifle production and distribution, 12–13, 16, 215, 245, 249–50, 390–91

popular uprisings in, 224, 365

Pol Pot, 11

Polte, 162–63

Popular Mechanics, 330

Port Arthur, battle for, 113–16, 122–23, 252

Poznan, popular uprising in, 223

PPSh, 187, 199

AK-type rifle distribution and, 346

in Hungarian revolution, 219

production and distribution of, 168–69, 182, 185, 217, 219, 346, 357

in World War II, 182, 185

Prague, 220, 348

Prague Spring, 348

Pratt & Whitney, 66

Pravda, 237, 239

Pripyat, 359–60

propellants:

ball powder and, 293–94, 297, 301, 303–4, 316, 326

smokeless, 74, 92, 122, 135, 196

Prussians, Prussia:

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

Gatling gun test in, 42–43

Krupp field pieces of, 45

mitrailleurs and, 43–46

Puckle, James, 27–28, 38, 390

Pulemyot Kalashnikova (PK), 16, 166n, 243–44, 436n

Purdy, Patrick, 14

Putin, Vladimir V., 403–4

Q

Quaku, Sein, 48

Quang Tri province, 263, 333

R

racism, 105–6, 425n–27n

Radom, 399

Rahim, Muhammed, 48–49

Rakoczi Square murder, 227, 240–41

Rakosi, Matyas, 221–22

Rand Corporation, 271

Raphael Repeater, 36

rapid-fire flintlocks, 27–28

Ras Alula, 81–82

Rattray, George, 86

Raymond, Henry Jarvis, 32

RDS-1, 1–2, 5, 407

Red Horse, 60

Remington rifles, 79, 293

Remington rounds, 276

Reno, Marcus A., 58–59, 61

Requa gun, 28, 36

Research and Proving Grounds for Fire-arms and Mortars, see NIPSMVO

Research in Small Arms in International Security, 363

Revolutionary Armed Force of Colombia (FARC), 384

Revolutionary War, 311

Rheinmetall-Borsig, 246