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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The [[White Wolf]] collectible card game ''Vampire: The Eternal Struggle'' featured an ally card called Arms Dealer. While in play, the Arms Dealer can take an action to allow the
* Very common in ''[[Shadowrun]]''. Arms dealers are known as 'Fixers' (as in "I can fix you up with something"). Fixers not only deal in arms, but in body armor, black market cyberdecks and programs, and even cybernetic modifications. The Crime Mall is perhaps the most brazen example, actually operating open-to-the-public storefronts out of an [https://web.archive.org/web/20130915132347/http://www.southhillmall.com/home/index.ch2 abandoned shopping mall] in the Puyallup Barrens.
* Several factions function like this at one time or another in ''[[BattleTech]]''. The Free Worlds League and the Lyran Commonwealth/Alliance are both known for it, but the one who really takes the cake is probably Clan Diamond Shark, which despite being part of Battletech's [[Proud Warrior Race]] would much rather sell guns to you than fight you.
* Fairly common in the paper RPG and ''[[Inquisitor]]''
* In ''[[Rifts]]'' you not only have the Black Market (your standard shady arms dealers) and independent gun shops, but a number of companies such as Wilk's and Northern Gun also sell their wares directly.
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