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The supposed weapon was intended to lead to cancer which would result in death within months after the exposure. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] According to Pacepa, it was created by the Securitate's "Service K" in spring 1970, using radioactive materials it received from the KGB .
Maine is looking for answers to the recent gun massacre. Well, they should look no further: There are about 400,000,000 guns in the U.S., and apparently no way to keep them out of the hands of the ...
About 72% of gun owners say they own a gun primarily for protection. [ 3 ] The world's armed forces control about 133 million (approximately 13 percent) of the global total of small arms, of which over 43 percent belong to two countries: Russia (30.3 million) and China (27.5 million). [ 1 ]
The Small Arms Survey 2017 [1] provides estimates of the total number of civilian-owned guns in a country. It then calculates the number per 100 people. This number for a country does not indicate the percentage of the population that owns guns, because single individuals can own multiple guns. See also Percent of households with guns by country.
A tiny fraction, only about 5% of people attempting suicide, use a gun. But guns are deadly almost every time, and so end up accounting for over half of suicide deaths. For veterans, that jumps to ...
The group’s open display of guns — broadly legal in Michigan — was greeted by many people not for being threatening but for protecting Black women in dangerous neighborhoods at night.
A woman trains real-life defensive gun use scenarios with live ammunition at a video shooting range in Prague, Czech Republic. Defensive gun use (DGU) is the use or presentation of a firearm for self-defense, defense of others or, in some cases, protecting property.
Gun culture refers to the attitudes, feelings, values and behaviour of a society, or any social group, in which guns are used. [1] The term was first coined by Richard Hofstadter in an American Heritage article critiquing gun violence in the United States. [2] Local gun cultures are found all around the world, and attitudes toward guns vary ...