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The Mateba Model 6 uses the recoil from firing to rotate the cylinder and cock the hammer, unlike conventional revolvers, which depend on the user physically pulling the trigger and/or cocking the hammer to actuate the weapon's mechanism of operation. The Mateba Autorevolver's barrel alignment is different from most other revolvers.
Mateba, a contraction of the Italian words Macchine Termo-Balistiche (Thermo-Ballistic Machines), was an Italian machine manufacturer based in Pavia, Italy. It is better known for its low-barrelled revolver pistols that it produced under the leadership of Emilio Ghisoni .
Airsoft is safe when played with proper protective gear. Most airsoft guns on the market are usually below 350 ft/s (110 m/s), but projectiles expelled from any type of airsoft gun can travel as slow as 65 ft/s (20 m/s) to more than 700 ft/s (210 m/s) and are capable of breaking skin at 350–400 ft/s (110–120 m/s).
As of 2021, the active modelgun manufacturers in Japan are Marushin, Tanaka Works, HWS (Hartford Work Shop), KSC, CAW (Craft Apple Works), Tanio Koba, Elan and Hobby Fix. Among them, Marushin and HWS also offer modelgun kits for sale. There are two other companies producing modelguns outside Japan: HawSan and Denix.
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Tokyo Marui was the first company to introduce airsoft guns powered solely by electric motor gearbox-driven spring-piston assembly in 1992, which they called "automatic electric gun" (AEG). This compact air pump system was implemented in their first battery-powered automatic firing replica, the FAMAS F1. Other airsoft guns were then introduced.
Georgia's Republican lieutenant governor has unveiled a plan to roll back regulations in a similar style to what Tesla CEO Elon Musk is doing at the federal level in Washington, D.C.
After surviving an assassination attempt in the Tucson mass shooting last January, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) resigned from Congress in January 2012. In the June special election, Jesse Kelly (R) — an Iraq War veteran who lost to Giffords in 2010 — was defeated by Ron Barber (D), Giffords' district director who was also wounded in Tucson.