if you give them Gucci gear like Stingers etc.
Unlike an AK-47, Stinger needs somebody with good training and skills to operate it. Stinger also has a shelf life, after a period of time its chances of actually working go down. Also there is the manhood and status of owning a Gucci bit of kit like a stinger compared to the underlings that all have AK's in that neck of the woods. Fire the Stinger and that man goes from a king to a man with an empty bit of pipe at the press of a trigger.