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  2. Defensive gun use - Wikipedia

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    The same study stated that its results suggested that most self-defense gun uses did not occur in the home, and that non-gun weapons are used more often to thwart crime than guns are. [33] A later survey by Hemenway et al. that included 5,800 California adolescents found that about 0.3% of these adolescents reported having used a gun in self ...

  3. A Self-Defense Expert Recommends These 12 Personal ... - AOL

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    The best self-defense weapons are easy to carry and use. Our expert has tested self-defense weapons for years these 12 discrete personal safety devices.

  4. Improvised weapon - Wikipedia

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    Modern factory-made machete, US Forces issue. Throughout history, common tools were used so often as weapons in self-defense that many of them evolved specifically into weapons or were adapted with the secondary purpose of being used in self-defense, usually by adding modifications to its design.

  5. Personal defense weapon - Wikipedia

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    Thereafter, handguns were typically issued as self-defense weapons. However, they were not effective in most close combat situations. As a result, during the First World War, the Mauser C96 and artillery versions of the Luger pistol were issued with attachable shoulder stock holsters, which allowed for greater control and accuracy.

  6. Krav Maga - Wikipedia

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    The term krav maga in Hebrew is literally translated as 'contact combat' – the three letter root of the first word is q-r-b (קרב), and the noun derived from this root means either "combat" or "battle", [14] [15] while the second word is a participle form derived from the verb root n-g-‘ (נגע), that literally means either "contact" or "touch".

  7. What are cat eyes? TSA officers detect spike in these self ...

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    Cat eyes are self-defense weapons similar to brass knuckles. TSA checkpoints in New York are now detecting a spike in these. Here's why.

  8. History of concealed carry in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Heller (2008), ruling that the Second Amendment protects a responsible, law-abiding individual's right to keep handguns in the home for self-defense. On June 23, 2022, in New York State Pistol & Rifle Assoc. v. Bruen, the Court confirmed the Second Amendment protects the right to carry firearms in public for self-defense. The Court struck down ...

  9. Defensive weapon - Wikipedia

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    Defensive weapons include: Personal weapons - see Self-defense#Armed; Missile defense; Planetary defense weapons - see Asteroid impact avoidance;