1.   Both said they would forgo weapons purchases for their respective armed forces for the next four years and use the billions of dollars they would save on development projects.

2.   Civilian leaders also have slashed military budgets, canceled new weapons purchases and forced military-backed companies to sink or swim in the marketplace.

3.   Countries like Taiwan and Saudi Arabia have devoted amounts to weapons purchases that go far beyond Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic combined.

4.   Extremist groups are turning to drug sales to fund their weapon purchases.

5.   For years, it was dismissed by gun-control advocates as an ineffective bureaucracy hobbled by Congress and prohibited even from maintaining a national registry of weapons purchases.

6.   If a one-war scenario doctrine is adopted, it could open the door to more troop cuts, base closures and reductions in weapons purchases.

7.   Money saved by the proposals would be used in the future for weapons purchases.

8.   Most of the added money would go for weapons purchases.

9.   Still, sales are made on the black market and money for weapon purchases is plentiful.

10.   The city of St. Louis was recently negotiating a large weapons purchase with a trade-in component when the president of the board of police commissioners stopped the deal.