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    My first week starting troubleshooting firearms was very interesting with some of the knowledge that I already knew with experience and another I didn’t. The area that I think is most common with people that shoot rimfire is that cleaning them and keeping them clean will often correct most malfunctions. There’s not much that can go wrong if you keep them clean. The big issue her is knowing how to disassemble them and reassemble them correctly. Having an illustration usually supplied by a firearm’s

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    2008 Beijing 10 m air rifle ISSF World Shooting Championships Gold 2006 Zagreb 10 m Air Rifle Commonwealth Games Gold 2002 Manchester 10m Air Rifle (Pairs) Silver 2002 Manchester 10m Air Rifle (Singles) Gold 2006 Melbourne 10m Air Rifle (Pairs) Bronze 2006 Melbourne 10m Air Rifle (Singles) Gold 2010 Delhi 10m Air Rifle (Pairs) Silver 2010 Delhi 10m Air Rifle Gold 2014 Glasgow 10m Air Rifle Asian Games Silver 2010 Guangzhou 10m Air Rifle (Team) Bronze 2014 Incheon 10m Air Rifle (Team) Bronze 2014 Incheon

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    Should Gun Control Laws Be Stricter? Lindsey Curry English 111 Dr. Robert Brandon November 20‚ 2012 Many different freedoms were granted in many different ways to the people of the United States. When the Constitution was written in 1776‚ many rights were granted to the people of the United States. In 1791‚ the second amendment of the Constitution was adopted and allowed the people to be able to keep and bear arms (Members‚ 2011). Today‚ there is a debate on making these gun control laws stricter;

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    The article “JUST TAKE AWAY THEIR GUNS” written by James Q. Wilson gives a detailed look of why people may take an anti-gun control stance. Reading the title‚ you may expect this article to be for gun control‚ but in the first paragraph it’s clear what side the author is on. Furthermore‚ he continues that getting guns out of the hands of Americans would be an impossible task. Providing evidence for that claim he states that “There are some 200 million guns in private ownership” (Wilson 1). Knowing

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    novel‚ “Swallowing Stones” the protagonist‚ Michael MacKenzie‚ continues to make bad choices which lead to trouble. On Michael MacKenzie’s seventeenth birthday‚ he got a .45-70 Winchester rifle from his grandpa. Michael figured he’d try out his new gun. Michael and a friend‚ Joe Sadowski‚ decided to shoot the rifle on the Fourth of July. They had no idea of the repercussion that it would cause when they did. The bullet that they fired traveled four blocks over and hit a man named Charlie Ward in the

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    advancements in rifles. The advances of shooting distance came from moving from a Musket to a Springfield rifle. They were both mainly used by the Union. A musket could only shoot 250 yards‚ and was invented by an Italian inventor named Moschetta. Then in 1861 the Springfield rifle was invented‚ this rifle could shoot up to 500 yards. Another important rifle was the Lorenz rifle. It was invented in 1862 by Austrian lieutenant Joseph Lorenz. The Union mainly used it. Lorenz rifle could shoot between

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    shooting over the past ten years is a very low number considering an estimated 2‚446‚294 AR-15 model rifles alone being owned in the U.S. it would seem assault weapons are not the culprit of violent crime (Peters). Many other countries have also banned assault weapons and even debarred firearms completely. For example France has banned all assault weapons and pistols‚ allowing only the possession of rifles and shotguns; which the owner must pass a criminal background check and mental health background

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    Fallacies of the Assault Weapons Ban Abstract Violent crime is a growing problem in our country. Politicians are always looking for new laws to impose on their people in order to combat the problem. Unfortunately‚ some of these laws are written by individuals who do not possess a thorough knowledge of the topic they are attempting to regulate. One example of these laws is the Federal Assault Weapons Ban that was in place from 1994-2004. This law made it illegal to produce or purchase a firearm

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    When the baritones of cannon barrages‚ melodies of muskets and the sound of the rebel cry had finally subsided‚ The American Civil War had had already taken a deadly toll. Four years of gruesome fighting had decimated the population. Half a million of three million men had been wounded in combat. Over two hundred thousand others had been killed. Frontal assaults turned into suicidal dashes that resulted in victory for no man. Advancements in weaponry surpassed ancient tactics dating back to the

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    TRAINING SUPPORT & SCHOOL DIRECTORATE DOCTRINE TRAINING DEVELOPMENT DIVISION COURSE 012-SQIX DRILL SERGEANT SCHOOL DRILL & CEREMONY STUDENT HANDOUT 19 March 2012 TRAINING SUPPORT & SCHOOL DIRECTORATE DOCTRINE TRAINING DEVELOPMENT DIVISION Drill Sergeant Program Fort Jackson‚ SC 29207 Supersedes all previous versions Preface…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….………………………………….…3 Chapter 1 – METHODS OF INSTRUCTION 1-1 METHODS OF INSTRUCTION……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

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