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Hickok45's videos demonstrate a wide variety of firearms, both historic [5] and modern, and typically present an in-depth discussion of the history and functionality of each firearm. His early videos often showed him shooting Old West weaponry and wearing cowboy outfits.
In each episode, Willis tests a series of iconic weapons, from muskets and pistols to assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs), and examines their historical significance. The premiere episode looks at the evolution of the handgun, going back to its earliest days on 16th century battlefields.
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 ...
McCollum avoids political topics in favor of exclusively covering technical topics and history. He has amassed over 2 million subscribers on YouTube. [ 7 ] Despite this, McCollum encountered some difficulties with YouTube deleting his videos , [ 8 ] which is why he began uploading his videos to Full30 and Floatplane.
Lewis gun: Light machine gun United Kingdom: 202,050 Colt Model 1860 Army: Revolver United States: 200,500 [52] MAB Model D pistol: Semi-automatic pistol France: 200,000+ Škorpion vz. 61: Submachine gun Czechoslovakia: 200,000 FM 24/29 light machine gun: Light machine gun France: 190,400 Rast & Gasser M1898: Revolver Austria-Hungary: 180,000
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Deadliest Warrior is an American television program in which information on historical or modern warriors and their weapons are used to determine which of them is the "deadliest" based upon tests performed during each episode. The show is characterized by its use of data compiled in creating a dramatization of the warriors' battle to the death.
William Henry was born near Downingtown, Pennsylvania [1] to a family of Scots-Irish extraction. [2] Prior to his service in the Continental Congress, Henry was a gunsmith and provided rifles to the British during the French and Indian War: Henry himself, serving as armorer, accompanied troops on John Forbes's successful mission to retake Fort Duquesne in 1758.