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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 ...
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]
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, 2023), How the U.S. became 'Gun Country', WUNC ...
The story hinges upon the enactment and subsequent unintended consequences of several important pieces of U.S. gun control legislation and regulation: the National Firearms Act of 1934, the Gun Control Act of 1968, the Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986, the Assault Weapons Importation Ban enacted by Presidential executive order in 1989, and the Federal Assault Weapons Ban of 1994.
The 2021 National Youth Poet Laureate, 24, used her platform to call out gun violence in America, posing a poignant question about the future of children's safety in schools. Schools scared to ...
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]
Come and Take It: The Gun Printer's Guide to Thinking Free is an autobiographical book written by American gun rights activist, author and crypto-anarchist, Cody Wilson in 2016. The book describes Wilson's decisions behind wanting to create the world's first 3D printed gun , the Liberator , and the formation of his company Defense Distributed ...
The website for his 2020 presidential campaign included a call to “put America on the path to ensuring that 100% of firearms sold in America are smart guns,” without specifying how that would ...