e/Armalite and ballot box strategy

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has gloss	eng: The Armalite and ballot box strategy was a strategy pursued by the Irish republican movement in the 1980s and early 1990s in which elections in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland were contested by Sinn Féin, while the IRA continued to pursue a paramilitary struggle against the British Army, the Royal Ulster Constabulary, and loyalist paramilitary groups. This was a matter of some controversy within republicanism, seen as a betrayal of the purity of the armed struggle by some IRA members and supporters, some of whom left to form Republican Sinn Féin in 1986. Armalite refers to the AR-18 assault rifle (originally manufactured by the ArmaLite corporation). The IRA smuggled significant quantities of AR-18s into Northern Ireland during the early 1970s and the "Armalite" became a symbol of republican armed struggle.
lexicalization	eng: ArmaLite and ballot box strategy
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