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1890 — American sport shooter, 5-time gold medalist and USMC Hall of Fame inductee Morris Fisher was born in Youngstown, Ohio.
1945 — Fighting stops in the Canadian sector near Wilhelmshaven, Aurich, and Emden; German forces in the Netherlands, Denmark and northwest Germany agreed to surrender to Canadian commanders.
1970 — "Only Soldiers and Cops:" Kent State shootings - the Ohio National Guard opens fire on a crowd of demonstrators, killing four unarmed students and wounding nine others.
2010 — A press release on FNH USA's official website announced the SCAR Acquisition Decision Memorandum was finalized on April 14, 2010. This was to be an approval for the entire weapons family of the Mk16 SCAR Light, Mk17 SCAR Heavy and the Enhanced Grenade Launcher Module.
2011 — "Only Soldiers and Cops:" Kelowna BC RCMP Staff Sergeant Owen Wlodarczak is charged with assault, careless use of a firearm (his RCMP duty weapon) and possessing a weapon for a dangerous purpose following a domestic assault on his estranged wife in front of their children.[1]
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. - Thomas Jefferson
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The only version of the Madsen sold in any quantity was the .30 caliber (.30-06). These were bought by Columbia.
The bullet bow shockwave is the result of air being greatly compressed at the front-most tip of the bullet as it slices through the air. As the bullet moves forward a broadening wave of compressed air trails out diagonally from the bullet tip. The sides of the bullet create a conical waveform. This conical waveform may be audible to a witness as a whip-crack sound.
A bullet bow shockwave will be heard by any witness as long as the bullet speed is faster than the speed of sound, whether the bullet was fired from a weapon giving off an openly audible muzzle blast, or a mechanically-suppress-fired muzzle (silenced weapon) blast. If a bullet is fired from a silenced weapon, a witness can mistake the bullet bow audible shockwave whip-crack for the weapon muzzle blast audible wave, which is a separate audible event. It might be noted here that if one is involved in such an event, that the sound you hear from a silenced weapon will not be from the point of origin. Most humans will perceive the sound as being omnidirectional or as emanating from the bullet as it passes by.
