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Rapper shot; arrests made 2020 boogaloo murders: Oakland: 2020-05-30: 2 3: Attacks on law enforcement during the George Floyd protests. Aguanga shooting: Aguanga: 2020-09-07: 7 Unsolved case, investigated by police if related to a marijuana grow 2021 San Jose shooting: San Jose: 2021-05-26: 10 Mass shooting; workplace violence 2022 Sacramento ...
The first successful assault rifle was the StG 44, introduced during World War II by the Germans. It was the first firearm to occupy the gap between rifles and submachine guns. The assault rifle was more powerful and had longer range than the submachine gun, but was less powerful and shorter range than standard rifles.
The Mulford Act was a 1967 California bill that prohibited public carrying of loaded firearms without a permit. [2] Named after Republican assemblyman Don Mulford and signed into law by governor of California Ronald Reagan, the bill was crafted with the goal of disarming members of the Black Panther Party, which was conducting armed patrols of Oakland neighborhoods in what would later be ...
He made his own killing machines. The arsenal that police said Kevin Janson Neal used during Tuesday's deadly rampage in northern California included two AR-15 type semi-automatic rifles with ...
The patents for the rifle, “Firearm” U.S. patent 2,353,679 published July 18, 1944, and “Firearm” U.S. patent 2,356,491 published August 22, 1944, credited the earlier Williams patent (U.S. patent 2,090,656) of the Williams floating chamber for use with a .22 long rifle caliber rimfire rifle. This rifle was the first semi-automatic ...
The subsequent search of their vehicle—after Phillips surrendered with a concealed weapon—found two semi-automatic rifles, two handguns, more than 1,600 rounds of 7.62×39mm rifle ammunition, 1,200 rounds of 9×19mm Parabellum and .45 ACP handgun ammunition, radio scanners, six smoke bombs, improvised explosive devices, body armor vests ...
Old Japanese weapons and other military paraphernalia, c. 1892–95 A Gilbertese shark-toothed weapon (late 19th century). Major innovations in the history of weapons have included the adoption of different materials – from stone and wood to different metals, and modern synthetic materials such as plastics – and the developments of different weapon styles either to fit the terrain or to ...
Rancho Tehama is a remote, sparsely populated, rural unincorporated community in Tehama County, California, that had a population of 1,485 in 2010. [2] The community is located 120 miles (190 kilometers) northwest of Sacramento, 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Red Bluff, and 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Corning.