History Main / ArmsDealer

* ''Literature/CallForTheDead'': During UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, George Smiley spent four years travelling between Switzerland, Germany and Sweden as the agent of a Swiss small-arms manufacturer. More accurately, he spent four years there as a British spy - but with a cover identity as a corporate arms dealer.

* '''Gangland Gun Runner''': The gangland arms dealer, selling stolen, smuggled, or "officially destroyed" weapons with the serial numbers filed off.

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* In ''Literature/{{Neuromancer}}'', Case realizes that someone (Molly) is following him, so he calls his gun dealer contact, who agrees to meet him in a few hours with a gun. In the meantime, Case buys a cool [[WhipItGood whip]], which he unfortunately trashes as soon as he gets his gun.

* ''Manga/{{Area 88}}'':

* In ''LightNovel/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'', Leon Bartfort, a minor feudal noble in a ScienceFantasy setting, takes advantage his Kingdom's laws guaranteeing loot rights for adventurers, to turn a crushed enemy fleet into his first products at a factory for CoolAirship on his small territory, with it mostly being staffed with his RobotBuddy Luxion's robots. With Leon being a PragmaticHero, he gives airships out to other minor nobles for free, who neglect to ReadTheFinePrint. In a case of BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord, Leon threatens to withhold repairs and maintenance of them if they don't fight under his flag, referring to this threat as ThePowerOfFriendship.

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* In ''Series/BabylonFive'' some powers sell weapons to technologically inferior ones, most notably the Narn selling advanced weapons to Earth during the Earth-Minbari War and, more recently, to [[spoiler:[[SpacePirates raiders]]]], and the Centauri selling entire ships even to their potential enemies as part of plans to slowly subjugate them economically. Both backfired with Earth Alliance, as the humans disassembled and studied the Centauri technologies and got a huge technological boost from it (even if the Centauri weapons remained far better) and were able to outright copy the Narn weapons (themselves based on Centauri technology).

* On ''Series/BreakingBad'':

** Ferengi Rule Of Acquisition #34: "War is good for business." However, rule #3'''5''' states: "''Peace'' is good for business". One wonders if they didn't have to add that one rather hastily after embracing #34 a bit too enthusiastically.
** Quark's [[SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome cousin Gaila]] in ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' is a much more successful businessman than him who made a fortune in selling weapons and, [[RunningGag as we are frequently reminded]], owns his own moon.
*** In the episode "Business as Usual" Quark joins him in the arms trade until his nightmares are haunted by the images of the people killed by his weapons.
** The [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Next Generation]] episode ''Arsenal of Freedom'' had a planet with an economy dedicated to selling weapons to both sides of local conflicts. [[TooDumbToLive The entire population was wiped out]] when someone set their newest automated defense system into demo mode.

* ''Series/{{Wiseguy}}''. Mel Profitt operated on an international scale, selling weapons as part of his Malthusian belief that it was needed to balance the birth/death rates.

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* ComicBook/ThePenguin in the ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'', to the point his men can sometimes be overheard complaining that he forces them to buy their guns from him. ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'' in particular focuses on this aspect of his character, as his sidequest involves locating and destroying his weapon caches throughout Gotham.

* In ''Film/OperationFortuneRuseDeGuerre'', Greg Simmonds is one of the world's biggest arms dealers, having earned the nickname '[[TheRedBaron the Dark Angel of Merciless Death]]'.

* In ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'', Shizuka, the FriendlyShopkeeper of a hunter supply store, specializes in selling weapons and ammunition to hunters looking to head into the wasteland. She knows her product inside-and-out, giving lengthy explanations on the history and specifications of the weapons she sells in a manner veering into GunPorn.

** Both Valentin Zukovsky and the Janus syndicate in ''Film/GoldenEye'' are said to be involved in the arms trade, among various other criminal enterprises.
*** A deleted shows Zukovsky meeting with an international arms dealer. Hilariously, Zukovsky knows enough about guns to know that all of the dealer's wares are "counterfeit crap".

* Hammer in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaChroniclesOfSorrow''. Though he sells stuff besides weapons, most of his inventory is weapons and he's generally seen in front of a crate with various weapons sticking out.

* ComicBook/ThePenguin in the ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'', to the point his men can sometimes be overheard complaining that he forces them to buy their guns from him.

* The BigBad of ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'', Agent Abrella, and his ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'' counterpart, Broodwing. Abrella was a fairly a typical Sentai villain in that he didn't control most [[MonsterOfTheWeek MOTWs]], they just bought their gear from him. Broodwing supplied the SPD-original BigBad Emperor Gruummm, and eventually became TheStarscream after Gruumm decided he wasn't paying for expensive weapons and robots that couldn't match against the Rangers.

** In GameMod ''VideoGame/RiseOfTheReds'', the Russian faction uses arms dealers operating out of trucks as a secondary source of [[CommandAndConquerEconomy income.]]

--->'''Ordell, selling an AK-47''': When you want to kill every motherfucker in the room, accept no substitutes!

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[[caption-width-right:350:I sell to [[DirtyCommunist leftists]] and [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic rightists]], [[TheEmpire regimes]] and [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized rebellions]]... Heck, I'd sell to [[ActualPacifist pacifists]] if they weren't such lousy customers.]]