War Dogs: The True Story Of How Three Stoners From Miami Beach Became The Most Unlikely Gunrunners In HistoryGuy Lawson's War Dogs is the page turning, inside account of how three kids from Florida became big time weapons traders and how the US government turned on them. In January of 2007, three young stoners from Miami Beach won a $300 million Department of Defense contract to supply ammunition to the Afghanistan military. Instead of fulfilling the order with high quality arms, they bought cheap Communist style surplus ammunition from Balkan gunrunners.