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The Kamand is an Iranian CIWS based on AK-630 to counter anti-ship missiles and low flying aircraft. The Kamand gun system is able to hit airborne targets at a range of two kilometres firing projectiles at a rate of 4,000 to 7,000 rounds per minute. The said system is installed on some Iranian naval ships like Alborz and Sahand frigates. [19]
The thesis of Arming America is that gun culture in the United States did not have roots in the colonial and early national period but arose during the 1850s and 1860s. The book argues that guns were uncommon during peacetime in the United States during the colonial, early national, and antebellum periods, that guns were seldom used then and that the average American's proficiency in use of ...
A panel from the graphic novel, with the young Geoffrey Canada at left. In the mid-2000s, Beacon Press began considering publishing an alternate graphic novel version.. Illustrator Jamar Nicholas and editor Allison Trzop created Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence (A True Story in Black and White), which was released in stores on September
The World America Made is a 2012 non-fiction book written by Robert Kagan. In it, Kagan argues against the retreat of the United States as the global superpower and suggests that maintaining the current American-led world order is good for democracy around the world. The book influenced President Barack Obama's 2012 State of the Union Address. [1]
Chapter Six looks into the ways that the Second Amendment, especially the right to bear arms, is treated like a "God-given covenant" in the U.S. [1]: p.109 Chapters Seven and Eight trace the rising numbers of mass shootings in the U.S. with the parallel increase of "organized gun-rights advocacy" and the "revival and rise of white nationalist ...
"The real origins of America's gun culture". Washington Post (book review). "Gun Country" chronicles the transformation of guns from tangible weapons to ideological ammunition during the Cold War; Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America (book review), August 1, 2023; Tiberii, Jeff; del Charco, Cole (November 20 ...
On September 18, 2015, the D.C. Circuit ruled that requiring gun owners to re-register a gun every three years, make a gun available for inspection or pass a test about firearms laws violated the Second Amendment, although the court upheld requirements that gun owners be fingerprinted, photographed, and complete a safety training course. [291]
Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America is a book about gun violence in the United States by Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck. The book was published by Aldine de Gruyter in 1991, and received the 1993 Michael J. Hindelang Award from the American Society of Criminology. [1]