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| − | <includeonly>{{AOTD missing}}</includeonly><noinclude>'''This date needs an [[AOTD|Article of the Day]]</noinclude>
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| − | ! style="background:#9BCD9B; border:1px solid green"| <div style="float:right"><small><nowiki>[</nowiki>[[March 5|more]]<nowiki>]</nowiki></small></div>What else happened today
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| − | * [[1836]] — The Patent Arms Manufacturing Company of Patterson, New Jersey is chartered by NJ legislature. An upstart whippersnapper from Hartford, 22-year old [[Sam Colt]], was given a commission for each [[Colt Paterson|gun]] sold in exchange for his share of patent rights.
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| − | * [[1917]] — The third round of trials for the second [[Huot automatic rifle]] prototype, firing 11,000 rounds (half [[Dominion Cartridge Company]], half [[Dominion Arsenal]]), begin in Quebec.
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| − | * [[2001]] — [[Charles Andrew Williams]] opens fire at [[Santana High School]] in Santee, California. The school sends in an unarmed “trained campus supervisor” to negotiate with Williams, which results in the supervisor’s death. An [[Concealed carry in the US|armed parent]], who was dropping off his daughter at the school, halted the rampage and kept Williams at bay until police could arrive.
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| − | * [[2008]] — The [[United States]] National Research Council released a report that concluded that a national database of [[ballistic markings]] is unworkable and that there is not enough scientific evidence that, "every gun leaves microscopic marks on [[bullets]] and [[cartridge]] cases that are unique to that weapon and remain the same over repeated firings".
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| − | ==Today in pictures==
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| − | File:070305-M-6412J-109.JPEG|Edged Mallet [[2007]] at Naval Base Manda Bay, Kenya.
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| − | ===Picture of the day===
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