Piotr Wilniewczyc (1887-1960) was a Polish engineer and arms constructor. Among his most successful constructions were the Vis-35 pistol, commonly known as the radom for the arsenal in which it was made, and the Mors submachine gun.

Georgi Semyonovich Shpagin was a Russian weapons designer. He was the creator of the famous PPSh-41 submachine gun. Georgi Shpagin was awarded three Orders of Lenin, two other orders, and numerous medals.

Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov was a Soviet weapons designer; he is one of the fathers of the modern assault rifle. Mostly known for the Samozaryadnyi Karabin sistemi Simonova (Russian: Самозарядный карабин системы Симонова), 1945 (Self-loading Carbine, Simonov's system, 1945), or SKS carbine, he also pioneered the assault and semi-automatic rifle field in the 1920s and 1930s, …

Denis Lortie is a former Canadian army corporal. In 1984, he stormed into the National Assembly of Quebec building and killed three Quebec government employees. A corporal with the Royal 22<sup>e&lt;/sup> Régiment of the Canadian Forces, Lortie was disgruntled with a number of policies of the Quebec and federal governments. He planned a killing spree as a means of broadcasting his discontent.

Vasily Alekseyevich Degtyaryov (January 2, 1880, Tula - January 16, 1949, Moscow) was a Russian weapons designer, Major General of the Engineering and Artillery Service, Doctor of Technical Sciences (1940), and Hero of Socialist Labor (1940, he received the second such award in the history just two weeks later than Joseph Stalin himself). He became a CPSU member in 1941. Vasily Degtyaryov was the one to head the first Soviet firearms design bureau.

Frank McErlane (1894-8 October 1932) was a Prohibition-era gangster. He led the Saltis-McErlane Gang, allied with the Johnny Torrio-Al Capone Gang, against rival bootleggers, the Southside O'Donnell Brothers. During the Chicago Bootleg Wars, McErlane was known as one of the most violent gunmen of the 1920s. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Frank McErlane was first arrested in 1911 and sent to Pontiac Prison in June 1913 for involvement in a car theft ring.

Sulo Onni Kolkka was a probably fictional Finnish sniper who allegedly served in the Winter War (1939-1940) between Finland and Soviet Union which formed part of World War II. During 105 days of combat Kolkka was credited with more than 400 enemy kills as a sniper in the Winter War. He is alleged to have used an iron sighted Mosin-Nagant rifle. He is alleged to have often taken the war to the rear of the Soviet lines, …

Yisrael Galili (1923-1995), is best known for inventing the Galil assault rifle. He also helped create the Uzi submachine gun. He was known in the military by the nickname 'Father of the Rifle'. In 1973, he received Israel's security prize for creating the Galil.

Jochen Piest a correspondent for the German newsmagazine "Stern".

Robert K. Preston (born c. 1954) is an American infamous for landing a helicopter on the White House lawn. At 2 A.M. On February 17, 1974, Preston, a U.S. Army private, stole a United States Army helicopter from Fort Meade, Maryland, flew it to Washington, D.C., and hovered for six minutes over the White House before descending on the south lawn, about 100 yards from the West Wing.

Mika Kalevi Muranen (born 1971 in Kotka, Finland), back in 1994 a conscript, returned to the barracks in Hamina from a holiday on April 1994, stole an assault rifle from the barracks and escaped to his hometown Kotka. Dressed in army clothes, he went to the neighborhood where he lived and shot two of his neighbours, Reino Vulkko and his wife Sirkka Vulkko, with a crossbow. After this he shot mailman Matti Olli with the assault rifle. He also shot randomly at nearby houses.

Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov (May 3(15), 1874, Petersburg - September 19, 1966, Moscow) was a Russian/Soviet scientist, weapons designer, founder of the Soviet school of automatic small arms, professor (1940), lieutenant general of corps of military engineers (1943), and Hero of Socialist Labor (1928).

Elizabeth Ann Duke (born November 25, 1940) is a former American teacher, philanthropist, and militant fugitive best known for her involvement an armed communist group which advocated violent overthrow of the U.S. government, and subsequent flight from prosecution. She is currently wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Duke was born in Beeville, Texas on November 25, 1940 but given her date of birth as April 20, 1941.