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Former Canadian Armed Forces Corporal Rob Furlong was born on Fogo Island, off the northeast coast of Newfoundland. At 10 years old, back home on the East Coast, he and his friends would spread rotten fish on a piece of wood, wait for the flies to show up, then try to shoot them out of the air with their pellet guns (there's not a whole lot to do in Fogo). Born a righty, Furlong even taught himself to fire a rifle left-handed. In 2002, while serving in the 3rd Battalion of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI), he participated in Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan's Shah-i-Kot Valley with a sniper team that included MCpl. Graham Ragsdale (Team Commander), MCpl. Tim McMeekin, MCpl. Arron Perry, Cpl. Dennis Eason. A few days earlier, Master Corporal Arron Perry had broken Carlos Hathcock's record for the longest sniper kill in history, setting the new mark at 2,310 m (2,526 yd). Considering that the old record had stood for 35 years, you'd think that the new one would hang around for a while. (Guess again ... )

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1951 — American criminologist and gun-grabber debunker Gark Kleck was born. 1999 — Col. Charles 'Boots' Askins, American lawman, US Army officer and writer, passed away at age 90 at his home in San Antonio after a lengthy illness. 2000 — Defense lawyers challenge the admissibility of the illegally obtained evidence in the trial of Canadian John Paul Bardoscia. 2002 — Operation Anaconda begins in in Afghanistan's Shah-i-Kot Valley. The battle would see Canadian snipers Arron Perry and Rob Furlong both break Carlos Hathcock's longstanding record for the longest sniper kill in history. 2004 — With sunset of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban on the horizon, gun grabber Senator Dianne Feinstein (a California Democrat) attached a ten-year extension to the 1994 ban to the Senate's Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act. With the Feinstein amendment, the bill was taken out behind the barn and shot, 8-90. 2010 — SCOTUS begins hearing oral arguments in the case of McDonald v. Chicago

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