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  2. List of Confederate arms manufacturers - Wikipedia

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    over 70 Brooke rifles Shakanoosa Arms Mfg. Co. Rifles Shelby Iron Company: Shelby, Alabama: 1842 Iron plating SC State Military Works Greenville, South Carolina: 1861 Also "State Rifle Works" Spiller & Burr Macon, Georgia: Rifles Samuel Sutherland Richmond, Virginia: Rifles Tallassee Tallassee, Alabama.58 caliber percussion muzzle-loading ...

  3. Killing of John Crawford III - Wikipedia

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    The killing of John Crawford III occurred on August 5, 2014. Crawford was a 22-year-old African-American man shot and killed by a police officer in a Walmart store in Beavercreek, Ohio, near Dayton, while he was holding a BB gun that was for sale in the store.

  4. Carcano - Wikipedia

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    Finland sold all of its approximately 74,000 remaining 7.35 mm M91/38 Carcano rifles on the surplus market. As a consequence, large quantities of surplus Carcanos were sold in the United States and Canada beginning in the 1950s. In Italy, the Polizia di Stato and the Carabinieri retained the Moschetto 38 TS, [9] retiring it from service in 1981 ...

  5. Gun laws in Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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    Machine gun licenses are generally only issued to collectors—Curio and Relic (C&R) Federal Firearms License (FFL) holders—and police instructors. Additionally, LTC permits may have the following restrictions, however, none of these restrictions have been clearly defined by state law, and are subject to each chief of police's definition of such.

  6. List of military headstamps - Wikipedia

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    The US military used commercial cartridges for its training rifles, non-standard weapons, and shotguns. These usually had different headstamps than the military ammunition (usually their civilian one) and were shipped in commercial crates rather than military packaging. ♦ Western Cartridge Company – East Alton, Illinois:

  7. Walmart - Wikipedia

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    In 2018, Walmart stopped selling guns and ammunition to persons younger than 21, following a similar move by Dick's Sporting Goods on the same day. [421] In the same year, Walmart stopped selling military-style rifles that were commonly used in mass shootings. [420] As of 2019, Walmart was a major retailer of firearms and ammunition. [422]

  8. Gun show loophole - Wikipedia

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    Federal law requires the holders of a federal firearms license (FFL), such as gun stores, pawn shops, outdoors stores and other licensees, to perform a background check of the buyer and keep a record of the sale for any commercial sale, regardless of whether the sale takes place at the seller's regular place of business or at a gun show ...

  9. MAS-49 rifle - Wikipedia

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    The MAS-49 is a French semi-automatic rifle that replaced various bolt-action rifles as the French service rifle that was produced from 1949. It was designed and manufactured by the government-owned MAS arms factory. [1] The French Army formal designation of the MAS-49 is Fusil semi-automatique 7 mm 5 M. 49 ("semi-automatic rifle of 7.5 mm ...