Larry Kahaner - AK-47

Polstar Vodka

Poly Technologies

Portman Group

PPD34/38 (Soviet submachine gun)

PP Kurz pistol

PPSh41 (Soviet submachine gun)

Purdy, Patrick Edward

Reagan, Ronald

recoil

Remington Arms Company

Remington Model 8

Republican Guard (Iraqi defense force)

Reutersward, Carl Fredrik

Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). See Colombia

Reyes, Camilo

Ridgway, Matthew B.

Roberts, Julia

Romania, AK-47

Rosenthal, John

RPK-74

Ruger, William

Rumsfeld, Donald

Russia. See also Soviet Union

arms trade

United Nations arms control

weapons marking

Russian Revolution

Rwanda

Saiga (hunting gun)

Sakharov, Andrei

Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN)

Sandino, Augusto

Sankoh, Foday

Saudi Arabia

Schmeisser. See Maschinenpistoles (MP40, German submachine gun, Schmeisser)

Schmeisser, Hugo

Scott, George C.

Scud missile

Secord, Richard V.

Sevaastyanov, Igor

Sheikh, Aftab

Shpagin, Georgy

Sierra Leone

Simonov, Sergei

Singlaub, John K.

SKS (Soviet rifle)

Slocombe, Walter

Smith & Wesson

Soghanalian, Sarkis

Soldier of Fortune magazine

Somalia

Somoza Garcia, Anastasio

Sopranos, The (TV show)

South Africa

Soviet Union. See also Russia

Afghanistan

AK-47

automatic rifles

cold war

collapse of

Hungary

Nicaragua

Russian Revolution

submachine guns

warfare

World War II

Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers’ Institute (SAAMI)

Springfield Armory

Stalin, Josef

stamping. See weapons marking

Starck, Philippe

Stinger missiles

Stockton, California, schoolyard shooting

Stoner, Eugene M.

Stop Handgun Violence

Strickland, Ted

Studler, Rene

Stuff magazine

Sturmgewehr (Maschinenkarabiner [Mkb])

submachine guns

Germany

Maschinenpistoles, MP40

physics of

Soviet Union

Sudayev, Alexei

Sugarmann, Josh

Sullivan, George

Sunday Times Style magazine

Syria, weapons marking

Taliban

Taraki, Nur Muhammad

Tarantino, Quentin

Taylor, Charles

arms trade

biography of

child soldiers

diamond trade

indictment of

Liberia civil war

Liberia invaded by

Taylor, Maxwell

terrorism, gun control

T-44 cartridge

Thompson, Emma

Thompson submachine gun (“Tommy Gun”)

Togo

Tolbert, William

Tonkin, Gulf of

Truman, Harry S.

Truman Show, The (film)

TsNIITochmash (Central Institute for Precision Machine Building)

Turkey, AK-47

Tutsi people

Uganda

Ukraine

AK-47

United Kingdom

Africa

ammunition

United Nations

Afghanistan war (Soviet Union)

AK-47

arms control

arms trade

children

diamond trade

Latin America

Rwanda genocide

Somalia

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

United States

Afghanistan

Afghanistan invasion (Soviet Union)

ammunition

AR-15 rifle

AR-10 rifle

Iraq war

Liberia

M-14 rifle

M1 Garand (U.S. semiautomatic rifle)

Nicaragua

Peru

Rwanda genocide

Somalia

United Nations arms control

Venezuela

Vietnam

Vietnam War

warfare

weapons marking

U.S. Army Materiel Command

U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)

Uzi submachine gun

Vance, Cyrus

Venezuela

Vietnam

France

United States

Vietnam War

AK-47

AR-15 rifle

end of

Khe Sanh, siege of

M-16 rifle

United States

Vines, Alex

Violence Policy Center

Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994

vodka

Walker, William

Wallace, George

Walther, Carl

Walther PPK pistol

warfare

Afghanistan invasion (Soviet Union)

AK-47

China

Soviet Union

United States

Vietnam War

Washington, George

weapons marking, gun control

Westmoreland, William

West Side Boys (child soldiers)

Whittaker, Ron

Williams, Willie

Wolf, Bill

Woolsey, James

World War I

World War II

blitzkrieg tactic

end of

Kalashnikov, Mikhail T.

M1 Garand (U.S. rifle)

Soviet Union

Wyman, William G.

XM-8 rifle

Yelinek, Shimon

Yeltsin, Boris

Young, Mark

Zingo, Nick

Values, Prosperity, and the Talmud: Business Lessons from the Ancient Rabbis

The Quotations of Chairman Greenspan: Words from the Man Who Can Shake the World

Competitive Intelligence: How to Gather, Analyze, and Use Information to Move Your Business to the Top

Say It and Live It: The 50 Corporate Mission Statements That Hit the Mark (coauthor)

Cults That Kill: Probing the Underworld of Occult Crime

On the Line: How MCI Took on At&T—and Won!

The Phone Book: The Most Complete Guide to the Changing World of Telephones (coauthor)

Naked Prey (pseudonym Larry Kane)

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