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The Sealand Youth Training Center (Korean: 씨랜드 청소년수련원) was a summer educational camp for young children, located near Hwasung, South Korea. In the early morning hours of June 30, 1999, the dormitory, housing approximately 430 children and their teachers, was consumed by fire. Nineteen children and four adults died.
Sealand Youth Training Center Fire: 1999: 30 October: Inchon: 54 to 65: Fire: Fire at illegal bar for underage drinkers [11] 1999–2000: June 1999 – April 2000: Various: 9: Serial killing: Serial killing spree: Jeong Du-yeong: 2000: October - December: North Cholla: 3: Serial murder spree: Serial killing or rape of minors: Kim Hae-sun: 2002: ...
By comparison, the 5.56×45mm NATO cartridge, used in the M16 and M4 rifles, produces between 1,200–1,300 foot-pounds force (1,600–1,800 joules), while the .308 Winchester, a favorite for hunters, police, and military snipers, produces between 2,000–3,000 foot-pounds force (2,700–4,100 joules) depending on the load used.
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The phrase was introduced as part of the 1992 amendment to the Arms Act that was intended to impose stricter controls on military style semi-automatic firearms [1] following the 1990 Aramoana massacre where a lone gunman, who held a lifetime firearms licence, killed 13 people using several different firearms, including a semi-automatic rifle ...
Model 1885 falling-block single-shot rifle; Model 1886 lever-action centerfire rifle; Model 1887 lever-action shotgun; Model 1890 slide-action .22 WRF rifle; Model 1892 lever-action centerfire rifle; Model 1893 slide-action shotgun; Model 1894 lever-action centerfire rifle; Model 1895 lever-action centerfire box-magazine rifle; Model 1895 Lee ...
Conversions for rifles and carbines of larger caliber, such as the AK-47 or Thompson submachine gun include a rifled insert barrel extending beyond the length of the chamber. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] One exception to the use of a special lightweight bolt was the Colt Service Ace , offered as a complete pistol or as a conversion kit for the M1911.
The .17 Hornet / 4.4x34mmR is a .17 caliber centerfire rifle cartridge originally offered as a "wildcat cartridge" developed by P.O. Ackley in the early 1950s. He created this non-factory (wildcat) offering by simply necking-down the .22 Hornet to .17 caliber and fire-forming the resized cases in his new chamber design.