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Gatling guns in, 90, 92–93, 95–97, 228, 252

SPIW (Special Purpose Individual Weapon), 272, 290, 296

sporting rifles, 399

Springfield rifles:

ammunition of, 60, 166–67, 169–70

M1903, 252–53, 271 n

Model 1873, 60

stockpiling of, 355

“Spring Offensive, The” (Owen), 136

squad automatic weapons (SAWs), 363 n , 378 n , 442 n

Srebrenica, 220

Stasi, 247–48

Stage (Statistical Corporation), 246

Stakhanov, Aleksei, 403

Stalin, Joseph, 1–6, 18, 144, 146–48, 153–54, 156–60, 169–71, 185–86, 206, 210–13, 219 n , 348–49, 356, 407–8

agricultural policies of, 171

and AK-47’s design and development, 5–6, 154, 158, 160, 201–3, 341

and AK-47’s production and distribution, 3–4, 8, 201–3, 216

AK-47’s symbolism and, 14, 341

contests for military equipment designs of, 158, 160

criticisms of, 19, 244–45

death of, 192, 212, 217, 221, 343

Hungarian policy and, 221–22, 226

Kalashnikov on, 212–13, 405

Kalashnikov’s social persecution and, 245

personality cult of, 156, 182, 213, 244–45

purges of, 159, 168, 210, 212–13, 348

Soviet atomic bomb test and, 1–2

submachine gun and, 168

World War II and, 146, 153, 156–57, 168, 175–76, 185, 212, 358

State Department, U.S., 368, 413

Statistical Corporation (Stage), 246

Sten gun, 258, 355

Stewart, Herbert, 78–81

Stockfisch, Jacob, 305

Stoner, Eugene, 275–77, 404, 444 n

AR-15 and, 276–77, 292–93

Stoner 63, 292–93

sturmgewehr, 164–67, 187, 199, 200, 207, 249–50, 253–54, 257, 384 n

submachine guns, 3, 163, 179–85, 256–58, 363 n

and AK-47’s design and development, 145

AK-47’s precursors and, 155

ammunition of, 139, 165, 168–69, 181, 228–29, 233–35

in Hungarian revolution, 219

Kalashnikov’s designs for, 181–84

Soviet Army and, 168–69, 180–82, 184–85, 187–88, 199, 249, 357

Soviet production of, 157, 168

stockpiling of, 355

U.S. laws on, 236

in World War I, 228, 233, 236

in World War II, 168–69, 179–80, 182, 185

see also automatic and assault rifles; specific submachine guns

Sudan, Sudanese, 371–73

and AK-type rifle production and distribution, 13, 377, 387

British reconquest of, 97, 102, 124

in fighting at Omdurman, 97–102

Islamic rebellion in, 78–81

LRA and, 372–73, 376–77, 380, 387

Sudayev, Aleksei I., 155–56, 186–87, 192

Suhl, 139, 163, 246–48

Sullivan, George, 274

Supreme Soviet, 148, 158, 211–12, 344

Surikov, Colonel, 195

Suslov, Mikhail, 223

Sutherland, Thomas A., 62

SVD ( Snaiperskaya Vintovka Dragunova ), 16, 166 n , 244, 364, 436 n

Svirnov, Sergei, 360

Sweden, 51, 86, 89, 355

Switzerland, 246, 400

Symon, Robert R., 76

systems analysis, 271, 288, 296

T44, 276

Tabuk, 11, 16

Tajikistan, 366

Talbott, William H., 47

Taliban, 380, 386, 388, 396

Tanga, battle of, 119–21, 426 n

Tanzania, 119, 356

Taubin, Yakov G., 158–59

Taylor, Charles, 370–71

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr, 403

terminal ballistics, 199–200, 284, 288, 439 n

terrorists, terrorism, 27, 191, 365, 384–85

and AK and AK-type rifle production and distribution, 5, 9–11, 13, 203, 268, 338–40, 349–52, 361, 380, 408–10, 413

in Beslan, 340, 385

Israelis targeted by, 339, 340 n , 349–52, 358, 443 n

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

on September 11, 2001, 11, 396

and symbolism of AK assault rifles, 384

and Thompson submachine gun production and distribution, 235

training and, 11, 380, 387

weapons pilfering and, 368

Tet Offensive, 332, 401

Thompson, John T., 228–34

ammunition testing of, 229–33, 438 n –39 n

Thompson submachine gun designed and developed by, 139, 228–29, 233, 236

and Thompson submachine gun production and distribution, 233–34, 236

Thompson submachine gun:

comparisons between AK-47 and, 236

design and development of, 139, 228–29, 233, 236

marketing of, 234

production and distribution of, 199, 233–36, 279

prototypes of, 233

reputation of, 235–36, 279

size and weight of, 199, 228

Tiedemann, Adolf von, 102

Times of London, 92

Tito (Josip Broz), 9, 157, 250

Tokarev, Fedor V., 160, 180, 186–87, 199

Tomakowski, Thomas C., 324

tracer rounds, 137

Tribuna, 210 n

Trotsky, Leon, 144, 193, 205

Tukhachevsky, Mikhail N., 158–59

Tunisia, Tunis, 56, 349

Tupolev, Andrei N., 158

Turkestan–Siberian Railway, 174

Turkey, 42, 52, 56, 367

Type 30, 116

Type 56, 15–16, 217, 265 n , 309, 381

Type 58, 16

Type 68, 16

Uganda, 371–81

and AK and AK-type rifle distribution, 9, 13, 354, 356–58, 367, 371, 381

Amin’s coup in, 356

child soldiers in, 337, 372–73, 376–79

illegal weapons transfers to, 371

Karamojong tribe of, 357

LRA in, 337, 372–80

purchase prices of AK-47s in, 381

Sinia Brigade in, 372

Ukraine, 365, 412

weapons pilfering in, 368–71

weapons stockpiling in, 343–44, 368

in World War II, 157, 174–75

Ulundi, fighting at, 62–64, 83, 87, 124

Underwood, Herbert P., 300

Union Repeating Gun:

demonstrations of, 30, 35–37

design of, 28–30, 35, 420 n

patent of, 35, 420 n

Union Stock Yards, 231–33

United Nations, 14, 381

on human costs of AK rifles, 387

illegal-arms transfers and, 370

United States, 4–7, 12–15, 109, 132, 206, 352–56, 400–402, 417 n

in Afghanistan, 378 n , 386

AK-46’s design and, 192

and AK-47’s design and development, 12, 151, 204, 402

and AK rifle’s production and distribution, 13–14, 251, 256–57, 349, 359, 363–64, 402, 411, 435 n

arms database of, 20

arms-design failures of, 6–7, 251, 254–55, 259, 268–69, 273–74, 363

Constitution of, 17–18

Hungarian revolution and, 226, 237

illegal-arms transfers and, 371

industrial revolution in, 6, 77

Iraqi Kurds and, 388

Kalashnikov on, 405–6, 444 n

in Korean War, 264, 406

laws on automatic and assault rifles in, 14–15, 18, 236

machine guns used by, 126–27, 255

Mahmoud’s medical treatment in, 397–98

Maxim gun produced in, 89

Maxim’s racism and, 105–6

nuclear weapons programs of, 1, 4–5, 144, 272

Philippines invaded by, 104, 111, 252

and purchase prices of AK rifles, 381, 383

rifle cartridges of, 161, 166–67, 169–70

Russo-Japanese War and, 116–17

in search for reliable automatic rifle, 6–7, 20, 253–54, 256, 270, 272–76, 280, 283–94, 360, 438 n , 441–42 n

Soviet arms race with, 153, 169, 253–54, 256, 259, 272–73, 276, 353

Thompson submachine guns developed, produced, and distributed in, 139, 199, 233–34, 237

in Vietnam, 5, 9, 263–68, 270–72, 280–83, 285 n , 294, 296, 298–308, 310–25, 327–36, 353, 356, 401, 415, 444 n

weapons stockpiling and, 343–44, 410–11

in World War I, 251–52, 255

in World War II, 199, 253–54, 264, 270, 281, 295, 334, 344

United States Electric Lighting Company, 74–75