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    destroy each other. This old specific rifle that was used for Nazis soldiers to take away many human lives in the 1940s is an example of what humans do to each other with these dangerous artifacts. Thank God world war two is over. However‚ the problem with weapons like this rifle and racist people have continued all these years. Here in Los Angeles we have a serious problem with weapons like 45mm Beretta & 9mm Colt and very possible weapons like this rifle still being used for those people that

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    Video games began modestly‚ in a primitive age that had a littile yellow dot scour a maze "eating" little white dots. Since then‚ video games have expanded exponentially. These games even spand genres‚ including action‚ adventure‚ sports‚ etc. In their progression‚ many video games have attempted to simualte really‚ emersing the gamer into this puesdo-reality. Although some attempts were unsuccessful in fully depicting reality‚ one game managed to bring this vision to fruition. The Grand Theft

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    Winchester‚ and the guns that won the West. Oliver Fisher Winchester (November 30‚ 1810 - December 11‚ 1880) was both a businessman and a politician. He is most famous for his manufacturing and marketing of the Winchester repeating rifle‚ which is the descendant of the Volcanic rifle made years earlier ("Biography of Oliver Winchester").

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    too much compared to a two-thousand dollar AR15? There is a large debate on what style of rifle to use for long range‚ competition‚ and hunting shooting. Some of the older generations say‚ “ A rifle is one where you have to pull the bolt back every time you pull the trigger” (Nichols‚ Jerry). I believe a rifle is anything that you want it to be. For this experiment I have chosen to test the Ruger Precision rifle in 5.56 NATO ($1‚600) and the FN America Competition AR15 in 5.56 Nato ($2‚500.) The areas

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    .270 and the .30-06 rifles into a 2x4‚ then I will be able to determine from the ballistics which caliber rifle is better. For my experiment‚ I fired two rounds of ammunition into a 2x4 with each gun. Both rifles were fired at a range of 50 yards away‚ into the wind‚ while using 150 grain shells. The rounds for the .270 used soft tips‚ but the .30-06 used sharp tips. The .30-06 is an extremely good rifle for most of the outdoor activities. The depth of this rifle is superb compared to

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    My Mother Jennifer LaMorte ENG 121 Dwight Paulsen July 6‚ 2013 This essay is about how a perfect mother looks like to me. People say that the perfect mother does not exist‚ I actually don’t know if that is true‚ but what I do know is that my mother is perfect for me. Everything in my mother is special; the way she dresses‚ the way she speaks‚ the way she behaves etc. Somehow they are a part of you‚ a part of your world‚ your heart. For me that is my mother. Her

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    (such as Kevlar armor and grenades). Players earn money for by completing their specific objectives and by defeating opponents. There are five categories of primary weapons for players to choose from‚ shotguns‚ sub-machine guns‚ assault rifles‚ sniper rifles‚ and machine guns. Each of these categories has it’s own strengths and weaknesses and a player’s choice can mean the difference between victory and defeat. Shotguns are extremely powerful short ranged weapons. There are two shotguns to

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    weaponry. Early weapons used in the Revolutionary War were self muzzle-reloading weapons which were slow and insufficient. While the ¨modern¨ weapons used in the Civil war were Springfield rifle to Colt revolver to 12-pound howitzer‚ there was a great advancement of weapons from flintlocks to bolt-action rifles. Civil War weapons evolved ever since the last American War‚ with the addition to cartridges onto firearms which allow someone to reload faster and then shoot again.

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    casualties of any American war. The Battle of Gettysburg alone‚ for example‚ resulted in approximately 50‚000 casualties. The improvements of military and civilian technology also aided both sides of the war‚ from telegrams and railroads to artillery and rifles. The most widely used personal firearm of the American Civil War were rifled muskets. However many Revolutionary period muskets were still in use‚ these muskets were very inaccurate

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    to 2004‚ AR-15-style rifles were subject to the now-expired Federal Assault Weapons Ban. Since then‚ the rifle and others like it have become tremendously popular. Last month‚ I estimated that upward of 3.5 million AR-15-style rifles currently exist in the United States. People like the rifle because it is modular and thus customizable (one article calls the AR-15 “perhaps the most flexible firearm ever developed; in seconds‚ a carbine can be switched over to a long-range rifle by swapping upper receivers”)

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