It adds: "Saudi Arabia is the UK's largest customer for weapons and the UK is the biggest supplier of weapons to Gulf Cooperation Council countries".
"You get a lock on the customer -- weapons, spare parts, upgrades, even replacement planes when they crash.
The kingdom recently became the world's biggest arms importer; it's Sweden's third-largest non-Western customer for weapons.
Jihadists in north Africa are big customers for weapons.
Defense officials from India and China -- Russia's major customers for weapons -- Kuwait, North Korea, South Korea and dozens of other nations watched attentively as a T-90 tank, one of Russia's newest weapons, sent a laser-guided missile streaking toward a target more than two miles away.
When asked about the company's policy on the "open carry" of firearms in its stores, its Customer Relations Department responded to the Brady Campaign's California chapters that "Starbucks does not have a corporate policy regarding customers and weapons; we defer to federal, state and local laws and regulations regarding this issue".
And it could sell surplus bomb fuel to countries like Iran, already a North Korean weapons customer.
The advanced jet fighters and helicopters for Saudi Arabia, long a leading customer for these weapons, could become the largest arms deal in American history, and one significant enough to shift the region's balance of power over the course of a decade.
Caving to pressure here to block the sale would tell future customers that deals with France could be vetoed by a shifting diplomatic climate, while going ahead with the deal would signal to other customers that purchasing weapons from France doesn't come with a guarantee of French interest in preserving the customer's national security.
All the same, gun makers say customers buy these weapons with peaceable intentions.
5.31pm GMT Customers shop for weapons at the Bullet Hole in Sarasota, Florida as they listen to an announcement about gun control by President Obama.
