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This is a list of weapons served individually by the United States armed forces.While the general understanding is that crew-served weapons require more than one person to operate them, there are important exceptions in the case for both squad automatic weapons (SAW) and sniper rifles.
The oldest surviving firearm is the Heilongjiang hand cannon dated to 1288, which was discovered in modern-day Acheng District where the History of Yuan records that battles were fought. Li Ting, a military commander of Jurchen descent, led foot soldiers armed with hand cannons to suppress the rebellion of the Christian Mongol Prince Nayan .
In 1995, political scientist Robert Spitzer said that the modern American gun culture is founded on three factors: the proliferation of firearms since the earliest days of the nation, the connection between personal ownership of weapons and the country's revolutionary and frontier history, and the cultural mythology regarding the gun in the ...
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6 Modern day. 7 See also. 8 References ... View history; General ... This list will include all lists dealing with US weapons to show all weapons ever used by the ...
When you think of 100% American firearms, Ruger—officially known as Sturm, Ruger & Co.—immediately comes to mind. Founded in 1949 by enthusiastic gun makers in Connecticut, Ruger has remained ...
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 historian explains how the U.S. was able to enact a federal gun control law in 1968, and why such a law would be hard to pass today.