The Gun (88 page)

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

Ripley gun,
28
–29

Rivers, L. Mendel,
310