There are 550 million ammunitions in the world, which means 1 gun for every 12 people. The only question is, how do we get 11 other guys to have guns too?
Selling a gun for the first time feels a lot like having sex for the first time, and you have no idea what you're doing. It was exciting, but it was over quickly.
... the silencer is standard equipment... even if you shoot me a full clip right now, it won't wake the people next door.
Isn't being a dog and being a person the same concept? . . . We are two-legged dogs.
There are already more gun stores in America than McDonald's.
He was selling guns before gunpowder was invented.
It is more effective to use the barrel of a gun to change a government than to use the ballot.
When the U.S. withdraws from a war zone, they usually don't take the weapons with them because it's more expensive to ship them back than to buy new ones.
I never sold to bin Laden, not because of ethical issues, but because his checks were always bouncing back then.
Without me, some countries would not be able to fight a decent war at all.
There are three basic arms deals in the world: white, legal; black, illegal; and my favorite color, gray. Sometimes I complicate the transaction so much that I can't even figure it out myself.
The first and most important rule of thumb for smuggling firearms is: don't get hurt by what you buy or sell.
Experience has taught me that the most successful two-person relationships start with lying and cheating. But the relationship develops in the end with lies and deceit.
Forty-five years of hostility between East and West has created the most powerful weapon in history.
Political considerations no longer exist in the arms industry.
You are not an international arms dealer if you do not sell weapons against your own country.
The trouble with fighting between arms dealers is that both sides have an inexhaustible supply of ammunition.
Since the end of the Cold War, the AK47 has become the most important export of the Soviet Union. Then came vodka, caviar and the suicidal poet.
Mr. Olof was always in the wrong place at the right time.
What can they do with civilian helicopters converted from military helicopters? If it's because of this helicopter that kills people, it's because you got hit with food thrown at you.
You cannot buy loyalty with money.
Why are you worried now about a disease that will kill you in 10 years?
A bullet from a 14-year-old's gun is as deadly as a 40-year-old man's gun, maybe more deadly.
"Not the king of war, it should be called a warlord."
"Thank you, but I like to say that."
Will the car seller tell you that the car is dangerous? Will the cigarette seller tell you smoking will kill you? Every year their wares kill more people than mine. At least my products have safety pins.
If you can run fast without a gun, how can you be called an arms dealer? Sometimes the revolutionary war broke out before the arms arrived.
For us, peace is more expensive than anything.
The cargo that the crew needed to move all day, Sierra Leone's hungry people moved in ten minutes.
You get rich by providing the world's poorest people with the tools to slaughter each other.
Your AK47 is the weapon of mass destruction!
I want people to use my gun and not kill people, as long as they shoot.
Because of your unfreedom (24 hours of detention), the innocent men, women, and children in the world can live one more day.
Everything that comes from nature will eventually return to nature.
"Nothing I do is illegal!"
"I don't care if it's legal or not! It's not right!"
It's not about the money...it's because I'm good at it.
My enemies have finally found a weapon that can hurt me.
Legitimate money is really hard to make, a lot of people are doing it, and the profits are just too low.
You can fight many enemies and still survive, but if you fight yourself, you always lose.
She looked at me the same way I look at thousands of customs officers, government officials, and other law enforcement officials.
I don't have anyone to believe.
Where there is demand, there will be weapons.
This is not our war.
In my experience, you can't stop any massacre.
I smuggled millions of ammo, but the one that put me in jail was the one under my brother's rib.
The biggest arms dealer in the world is your (international police) boss, the president of the United States.
Know who will inherit the earth? is an arms dealer. Because everyone else is busy killing each other.
The secret to the survival of an arms dealer is to never join a war.
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