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The notion that Roper, as a young man, could have been a gunrunner in Colombia felt right to me.—
Hunter Ingram,
Variety,
1 Feb. 2026 There are brash foreign fighters and humble food drivers and furtive gunrunners and ancient babushkas knitting camouflage ghillie suits in community gyms.—
Peter Rubin,
Longreads,
23 Feb. 2023 Cartels and guerrillas in South America are similarly dependent on border-crossing drug smugglers and gunrunners for the tools of their trade.—
Paul J. Angelo,
Foreign Affairs,
21 Apr. 2020