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Uzi Gal

Age: 79

Israeli arms expert who, in the 1950s, invented the Uzi, a 9-millimeter submachine gun. He moved to the United States in the 1970s after retiring from an Israeli weapons-manufacturing company.

Died: Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 7, 2002

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