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The first commercial production of a coin shooting pistol was by MacGlashan Air Machine Gun Company. MacGlashan was better known for the air-powered machine guns that fired steel BB's used by the Army Air Corp , and the US Navy as an aerial gunnery trainer .
Gun money (Irish: airgead gunna) [1] [2] was an issue of coins made by the forces of James II during the Williamite War in Ireland between 1689 and 1691. They were minted in base metal (copper, brass or pewter), and were designed to be redeemed for silver coins following a victory by James II and consequently bore the date in months to allow a ...
Such programs allow residents to turn in guns for cash. [29] In January 2014, Newark police director Samuel DeMaio said he was reviewing the implementation of an ongoing program instead of once or twice a year. Gun buybacks in several locations in Essex County, New Jersey, including Newark, collected about 1,700 guns in February 2013. [30]
Some wanted to change to a gun-free home. Some wanted to clean old guns out of their collection. At the end of the day, Durham County just wants more guns off the streets.
Thomas Kavanagh hoped that by leading the NCA to a buried cache of weapons he could influence sentencing in a multi-million pound drug smuggling case.
1979 The Gardaí seize a cargo of more than 150 guns and 60,000 rounds of ammunition. including two M60 machine guns, 15 M16 rifles, a number of M14 rifles, and an AK-47 sent from the US. [6] In 1982 US customs discover a truck at the docks of Newark, New Jersey. Four members of an IRA cell are arrested.
Autocannons are automatic guns with calibers of 20 millimeters (0.79 in) to 60 millimeters (2.4 in). There are many types, including chain guns, gast guns, revolver cannons, and rotary cannons.
An autocannon, automatic cannon or machine cannon is a fully automatic gun that is capable of rapid-firing large-caliber (20 mm/0.79 in or more) armour-piercing, explosive or incendiary shells, as opposed to the smaller-caliber kinetic projectiles fired by a machine gun.