1872 Sales Ordnance Stores 204 in (42nd Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Rep. 46) I The impression of everybody connected with arms sales..was that everything..was going to France.
1935 11 Mar. 8/1 [He pleaded] that the name of a Honduran public official who got a ‘commission’ from an arms sale be kept secret.
2002 30 Jan. 21/2 A government that is propped up by western oil companies, arms sales, and systemic internal repression.