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    Due to their invention‚ old technologies such as the rifle and musket were able to take on new characteristics with much more deadly effects. While changing old technology was important during the Industrial Revolution‚ so were the inventions of new technologies during the era. New inventions such as war rockets

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    Ever since I had moved into the open and competitive market‚ I’ve seen it highly influenced by “modern” culture‚ dependent on “high tech” technological advancement. I can clearly point the big changes that took over our biggest asset – The human resource‚ which as a progressive society we are moving towards losing its biggest value. Coming from a small country like Israel‚ where I was taught that the human resource is the most important and the most invested asset when it comes to training

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    instill fear to enemies of overran areas. * Sharpshooters: They were specially trained and highly skilled marksman. Wore camouflage and often worked in pairs. Weapons – General * Rifles: Most commonly used weapon. The sniper’s weapon is a rifle with an attacked scope. * Pistols: Less common than rifles‚ they were mainly given to vehicle operators for tanks‚ airplanes and officers. * Pistols were

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    Extra Case Wyatt Earp - The Buffalo Hunter F. Robert Jacobs‚ Indiana University The legend of Wyatt Earp lives on largely based on his exploits as a gunfighter and Marshall of the frontier West in the 1880s. The classic tales of the shootout at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone or his sawed-off shotgun duel with Curly Bill are possibly the most celebrated gunfights of frontier history and can not fail to stir the reader’s imagination. Wyatt lived to be over 80 years old‚ long enough to recount his

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    has been reignited‚ posing the question: will this be the moment that America makes a change in terms of its gun laws? Certainly there is a momentum to enact this change. President Obama has said that he will support a new bill to ban assault rifles and has appointed Vice President Biden as the head of a task force to produce a firm set of proposals on the reform of firearm laws over the coming weeks. The Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein – a long-time advocate of stricter gun control laws

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    Rifleman Dodd

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    Historic fictional novel about an English rifleman from the 95th rifle brigade that was unfortunately separated from his unit. The book takes the reader through the missions he finds on his way back to his unit. His travels back to the 95th are cluttered with quick thinking tactical situations evading and killing the French as he leads portages natives in tormenting the French who eventually retreat from the war. Dodd used his English rifle which was superior to the French musket to pick off Frenchmen

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    has it on them. Rifles on the other hand are used for sport‚ such as hunting‚ trap‚ and skeet shooting. They’re still very deadly like every other firearm but not as bad as an automatic and not as sneaky as a handgun. It is obviously much harder to conceal and walk around with a rifle than a handgun and that is why you can own a rifle at the age of 18 but not a handgun. This makes them a bit less dangerous in that sense. The only way you should be able to have one of the rifles is if you have a

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    Near Death Experience

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    ignorant kids with semi-automatic and lever-action .22 caliber rifles. As we strolled into the woods to see what terror we could create for the creatures of the forest‚ we noticed a large abundance of squirrels. They seemed to be dancing around as if they were gathering there before us in groups--laughing at us‚ begging us to shoot them. We had to keep walking‚ for we were still too close to the neighboring houses to be shooting these rifles. So we trudged along‚ occasionally commenting on how the

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    jungle hat and a rifle slung over his shoulder. Everyday he takes four hours‚ training. From (6-30 A.M. to 11 A.M.) in rifle-shooting‚ firing and throwing grenades‚ climbing a rope‚ negotiation a rope bridge‚ crawling and bayonet charge. There are occasional route-marches to maximum of 25 miles. negotiating a rope bridge is to walk upon a rope the ends of which are tied to the branches of two trees. Besides he learns three Rs‚ map-reading‚ current affairs‚ civics‚ bayonet training‚ rifle‚ light machine-gun

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    very good endurance. He goes for at least one run in the park every day. I remember when we first got him. We knew as soon as we saw him looking out at us from his little kennel that we had to have him. I like shooting‚ Clay Pigeon shooting and Air Rifle Shooting. For Clay Pigeon Shooting I have a 12 bore shotgun. To have a shotgun you need a shotgun license. Just recently there has been an outcry for a ban on privately owned handguns after the Dunblain massacre‚ which was when a lunatic broke into

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