The Gun (81 page)

Bear Chain, Operation,
264
,
318
,
329

Beavers, Jack,
333

BEF (British Expeditionary Force),
118
–19,
134

Behrendt, David,
301
–2,
331

Beldushkin, Anatoly,
353
–54

Belgium,
43
,
258
n

FAL rifle distribution and,
364
n

weapons stockpiling and,
355

in World War I,
118

Belknap, William W.,
52

Bell, J. Franklin,
118

Belloc, Hilaire,
103

Benet-Marcie gun,
252

Benke, Paul A.,
299
,
330
–32

Beresford, Lord Charles,
79
–81

Bergmann, Theodor,
139

Beria, Lavrenty,
212
–13

arrest and execution of,
213
,
221
,
245

automatic rifle ammunition and,
166

Hungarian policy and,
221

Soviet atomic bomb development and,
1
–3,
148

Berlin,
40
,
338

and AK-47 production and distribution,
248

arms pilfering in,
367

popular uprisings in,
219
–20,
222
–23

Berlin Wall,
346
–47,
365
–66

Beslan, terrorist siege in,
340
,
385

bin Laden, Osama,
11
,
225
,
383
,
396

blacks, racism and,
105
–6,
425
n
–27
n

Black September,
338
–39,
350
–52

Blagonravov, Anatoly A.,
182
–83

Bolotin, D. N.,
189

Borey, David C.,
314
–15

Bosnia,
220

Boutelle, Richard S.,
274
–75,
306

AR-15 and,
277
,
279

Boxer Uprising,
113

Brabeck, Michael,
397

Bray, William G.,
326

Brazil,
53

Bren gun,
258

Brezhnev, Leonid I.,
18
,
344
–46

eyebrows of,
353
–54

Izhevsk visited by,
344
–45

NIPSMVO’s closure and,
345
–46

Brigham and Women’s Hospital,
397

British Expeditionary Force (BEF),
134

Maxim gun used by,
119

in World War I,
118
–19

British South Africa Corporation,
86

Broadwell, L. W.,
42
,
51

Browning, John Moses,
138
,
145

gas-operated automatic of,
108

prototypes of,
108

stockpiling rifles of,
355

Browning Brothers Armory,
108
,
293

“Brown Man’s Burden, The” (Labouchère),
104

Broz, Josip (Tito),
9
,
157
,
250

Bryukhanon, Oleg,
360

Budapest:

popular revolution in,
218
–20,
222
–27,
237
–38,
266
,
383

Rákóczi Square murder in,
227
,
240
–41

Soviet assault in,
238

Bulgaria,
214
–15,
348
,
365
,
399

and AK and AK-type rifle production and distribution,
12
–13,
215
,
245
,
358
,
412

Bulkin, Aleksei A.,
187
–88,
190
–92,
431
n
,
436
n

Burkina Faso,
369
–70

Bush, George W.,
388

Butler, Benjamin F.,
30
–32,
36
–37,
94
,
418
n
–19
n

Cachourin, Captain,
49

Cadillac Gage,
292
–93

Cambodia,
11
,
294

Cambridge, Duke of,
47
,
78

Camel gun,
88

Cao Van Vien,
282

Castro, Fidel,
9
,
225
,
340
,
364
,
383
–84

Ceauşescu, Nicolae,
365

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),
237
,
361
,
383
–84

Chancellorsville, Battle of,
34

Chater, Alfred,
118
,
122

Chechens, Chechnya,
365

and AK and AK-type rifle production and distribution,
340
,
382

in Beslan siege,
340
,
385

purchase price of AK rifles in,
382

Chekhov, Anton,
401

Chelmsford, Frederic Thesiger, Lord,
64
–66

on tactical use of machine guns,
65
–66

in Zulu War,
62
,
64
–65

Chernobyl,
360

Chervenak, Michael P.,
318
–19

letter written by,
321
–24,
327
–28,
443
n

Vietnam and,
266
,
318
,
321
–24,
327
–28,
442
n

Cheyenne,
58
–59,
61

Chiang Kai-shek,
216
,
355

Chickamauga, Battle of,
34

child soldiers:

AK-47s used by,
7
,
9
,
14
,
340
,
377
–79,
387

in Uganda,
337
,
372
–73,
376
–79

Chile,
355
,
383

China, Nationalist,
216
,
355

China, People’s Republic of,
15
–17,
174
,
399
–400,
409
–12

and AK and AK-type rifle production and distribution,
12
–13,
15
–16,
216
–17
220
,
257
,
265
,
308
–10,
342
–43,
361
,
381
–82,
391
,
409
,
412
,
434
n
,
435
n

Vietnam War and,
308

weapons stockpiling of,
410
–11

Chinese Empire,
53
,
56

Christians, Christianity,
27
,
103
–5

Chritton, Charles P.,
324
–25,
441
n
,
442
n

Chubais, Anatoly B.,
406
n

Chu Lai, firefight near,
333
–34

Churchill, Winston,
97
,
99
–102

CIA (Central Intelligence Agency),
237
,
361
,
383
–84

Civil War,
28
–40,
64
,
137
–38,
418
n
–20
n

ammunition in,
33
–34

casualties in,
25
,
34
–35,
418
n

end of,
39
–40

Gatling gun and,
25
–26,
30
–33,
35
–37,
91
,
94
,
112

Maxim and,
70
–71,
73
–74

protests against draft in,
31
–32

standardizing weapons in,
32
–33,
419
n

Union Repeating Guns in,
36
,
420
n

Cleaveland, Paul S.,
274

Cold War,
1
–7,
21
,
169
,
211
,
242
,
271
–73,
341
–44,
363
,
410

and AK and AK-type rifle design and development,
203
,
223

and AK and AK-type rifle production and distribution,
3
–5,
13
,
203
–4,
215
,
248
,
341
–42

illegal-arms transfers and,
369
,
371

Soviet atomic bomb and,
1
–2,
4
–5

Soviet European satellites in,
214

and U.S. search for suitable automatic rifle,
272
–73,
285

weapons stockpiling and,
13
,
343
–44,
354
,
356
,
387

Colglazier, R. W., Jr.,
289

Colombia,
384

Colt firearms company,
19
,
138
,
291
–93,
231
n

AR-15 and,
277
–80,
283
,
291
,
296
,
441
n

Chevernak’s letter and,
323
,
327
–28

Gatling gun and,
39
,
51
,
57
,
66

M-16 and,
292
,
295
–97,
299
–303,
307
,
310
,
312
,
315
,
323
–32,
353
,
385
n
,
416
,
441
n

Model 1895 and,
108
,
111
,
145

Communist Party, communists,
3
–4,
18
–19,
185
–86,
196
,
210
–13,
244
–46,
307
–9

agricultural policies of,
170
–72

AK-47 publicity and,
211
n

and AK and AK-type rifle design and development,
4
,
7
,
149
,
153
,
191

and AK and AK-type rifle production and distribution,
3
,
13
,
246
,
268
,
308
–9,
340
,
363

AK rifle as symbol of,
385

atomic bomb and,
144

collapse of,
152
,
356
,
365
–67,
406

and escaping from East Germany,
347