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Molot joint stock company, 400

Molotov, Vyacheslav, 212 n , 219 n , 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), 384 n

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, 443 n

Museveni, Yoweri, 374, 379

musket balls, 27, 33

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

My Life (Maxim), 135

Nadezhda, 1–2

Nagasaki, 1, 144

Nagorno-Karabakh, war for, 408

Nagy, Imre, 237–39

arrest and execution of, 239, 437 n

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, 436 n , 444 n

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, 423 n

New York Tribune, 32

New York University, 230

Nez Percé, 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, 420 n

Ocira, Walter, 337

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

Okwera, Jimmy, 372–73

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, 386 n

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

Palmer, William, 35, 420 n

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, 424 n

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

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, 166 n , 243–44, 436 n

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

Poznań, 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, 166 n , 243–44, 436 n

Purdy, Patrick, 14

Putin, Vladimir V., 403–4

Quaku, Sein, 48

Quang Tri province, 263, 333

racism, 105–6, 425 n –27 n

Radom, 399

Rahim, Muhammed, 48–49

Rákóczi Square murder, 227, 240–41

Rákosi, Mátyás, 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

Rhodes, Boatswain’s Mate, 80

“Rifle, 5.56MM,XM16E1” (Rottmann), 263

Rifle Testing Commission, German, 139

Riga, 220, 365

Ripley, James W., 36, 37

Gatling gun sales and, 32, 91

in standardizing Union Army’s weapons, 32–33, 419 n