Word: ak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Administration's July 1989 ban on the importation of rapid-fire assault-style rifles always seemed ineffectual. It mainly protected domestic gunmakers from competition. Last week the ban seemed still more illusory. The | Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms announced that it could not prevent imports of guns like AK-47s if they were redesigned to remove military-style features such as large-capacity magazines, flash suppressors and bayonets. Such changes may make the rifles less deadly, but buyers can turn the guns into people killers with easy-to-get kits. Manufacturers, says Josh Sugarmann, director of the Firearms Policy...
...both Chamorro and Ortega appealed for calm, hotheaded civilians armed with rocks, Molotov cocktails and AK-47 rifles erected cobblestone barricades, ignited piles of tires and engaged in sporadic gunfire. From some trenches flew the red-and-black Sandinista flag, from others Nicaragua's blue-and-white flag. At least four civilians died and scores were wounded. Fretted a local businessman: "This must be how Beirut began...
...they work in the camp, fetching water, cleaning guns, tending the pack mules. Each night two or three of them slip into the desert alongside mules laden with water, food and ammunition and cross past the enemy to the forward posts three hours away. Each boy has his own AK-47, the only valuable object any of them has ever owned...
...state of compliance an officer instills in his troops. Soldiers are taught to obey unquestioningly. Children, less accustomed to independence than adults, are more tractable. And though a 13-year-old may not possess the strength of a soldier ten years his senior, this is the age of the AK-47 and the M-16, lightweight weapons a youngster can be taught to use as easily as an adult. Historian John Keegan calls the M-16 "the transistor radio of modern warfare" and argues that it has changed the nature of conflict by making fighting fit for the weak. Children...
...sent to fight with the Khmer Rouge army. It was a new kind of terror, but he quickly got used to life on patrol in swampy jungles. Frightened the first time he fired a carbine, he grew adept at it and quickly graduated to an AK...