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...changed from that point until cessation of manufacture at the beginning of World War II.<ref name="Adler"/> Prior to World War II, the 45 Colt used a groove diameter of .454"; post-WW II production

...e of the 39's introduction is unclear, but it came on the market just as [[World War II]] was breaking. Designed and built by Toronto-born Hubert Joseph Coo There are no accurate records of the number of Cooey 39s sold, but the number must be staggering. And, as

...ifornia, USA, in the early 1980s. Cowboy Action Shooting is now practiced world wide with several sanctioning organizations including the Single Action Sho ... add 10 seconds. Competition is close and contested, with the national and world championships attracting over 700 competitors.<ref name="GD"/>

...ew&pageId=68590 "Owner of broken rifle surrenders for 30-month sentence"]. World Net Daily.</ref>

...and being named "Fastest Man with a Gun Who Ever Lived," by Guinness World Records, died of a heart attack outside of Missoula, Montana.

...ural lag whereby the meaning of the Constitution is left dormant while the world changes around it.<ref name="Shaman2008" />"

...ared from the gamefields. The safari heyday of the early 1900s 'Nitro era' records much literature on such calibres as the [[.577 Nitro Express]], [[.375 H&H ==World War I and II==

The First World War gave many soldiers their first exposure to high-velocity jacketed bulle ...egal in specific contexts. Also, many law enforcement agencies around the world use hollow pointed expanding bullets, because they are the most humane and

...med (from the hip), and fired in just over 0.06 seconds. To establish a [[World Fast Draw Association]] record, a second shot must be fired in the same com == Records ==

... York Times">Glanz, James (2010-02-15). [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/world/middleeast/10supergun.html?pagewanted=print "Shades of Supergun Evoke Husse ...fter meeting him in person he was accepted into the undergraduate program. Records and recollections of both classmates and his professors show little in the

..., which identifies and includes other information about the purchaser, and records the make, model, and serial number of the firearm. Sales to an individual o ...oncealed.net/index.php Carryconcealed.net State Laws regarding CCW Permits World Gun Issues (Pro-Gun site)]

...under the authority of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), maintains records of all valid firearm licences in Canada. Information in the tables below & ...of [[long gun]]s in Canada were based on examinations of import and export records. This was, needless to say, less than accurate due to the fact that:

...tp://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fd20071223pb.html Japan faces up to a world of gun crime] Dec. 23, 2007</ref> ...me="Dallas Morning News">[http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/world/mexico/stories/DN-agmexico_17int.ART.North.Edition1.3736b8f.html U.S., Mexi

... large numbers of ex-military guns coming into the country after the First World War led the government to pass a new law in 1920. The new law required the Increasing gun crime in the 1960s led to greater police use of registration records, which were generally inaccurate or out-of-date. A project to check the reg

...ct the proposed new [[gun control]] schemes<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12441834 "Switzerland rejects tighter gun controls"]. ''BBC News''. ...o kill 14 people before killing himself.<ref>[http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/09/27/switzerland.shooting/ CNN.com - 'Grudge' behind Swiss gun mass

...f people who are unlikely to misuse them and who tend to not have criminal records. ...andbill for ''Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World']]

===Islamic world=== ...n'', or "Chinese snow") was earlier known to Arabic chemists, the Islamic world did not acquire knowledge of gunpowder until the 13th century. The first Ar

In many countries of the world, the possession and ownership of firearms by civilians is highly restricted Nearly all countries of the world allow some civilian ownership of firearms. Even some of the most restrictiv

...g.uk/search/records.asp?cat=017-dhb&cid=3-1-3#3-1-3 The National Archives, records of the UK government] ''Letters of Hibbert, Hugh Robert, 1828-1895, Colonel ...d into series of new hand grenades which lasted until far after the end of World War II.[http://www.lexpev.nl/grenades/sovietbalkan/yugoslavia/index.html]

...t the process leaves considerable residual stress in the barrel, but world records have been set with button-rifled barrels, so again there is no clear advant

...nt of the trigger guard. Interestingly, [[Fabrique Nationale]], one of the world's major firearms developers and manufacturers, was established in [[1889]] ...ost successful of the Mauser designs, helped of course by the onset of two World Wars that demanded vast numbers of rifles.

|wars= Second Boer War, World War I, [[World War II]], Spanish Civil War, Second Sino-Japanese War, Chinese Civil War, A ...ve appearance earned it the nickname "Broomhandle" in the English-speaking world (from the shape of its grip), and in China, the C96 was nicknamed the "box

...e gases from the propelling charge and hence the sound of the firing. Post World War II the silent Belgium Fly-K spigot mortar was accepted into French serv ...f trench mortars or [[Minenwerfer]] in calibers from 7.58cm to 25cm during World War I, though these were [[rifled]].

...[[August 6]], 2010.</ref><br>World Women's Fast Draw Champion;<br>breaking records at the drop of a hat. |standing = Over 50 World Records, including .263 second traditional fast draw. Also:

...claim that he briefly had a medical practice in Indianapolis, there are no records confirming this.</ref> ...red obsolete by the United States Army in [[1911]]. Decades later, after [[World War II]], the mechanical concept was resurrected and wedded to electricity-

Many collectors of [[WWII]] [[List of World War II German firearms|German firearms]] have also observed that several of * '''Dating:''' If contemporary records are available, a SN can help to confirm the age of a gun (obviously useful

...e pump action shotguns in close-quarters trench fighting. Since the end of World War II, the shotgun has remained in use with modern armies mostly in specia ...st short of the above recommended 168 cm (5 1/2 feet). On the other hand, records from the Plymouth colony show a maximum length of 137 cm (4 1/2 feet) for f

...inutes after the shots were fired, the first wire story flashed around the world: ...id he did not do it as part of a conspiracy.<ref>In 1997 the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) released a document that revealed that Ford had altered

... is held every year in Piru, California and draws shooters from around the world. ...f> In 2007 more than 220 competitors from the United States and around the world competed for a portion of the $390,000 in cash and prizes - the largest pur

...Holsters Make a Point but Are Still a Fashion No-No] Allison Go, US News & World Report, 2007-10-23</ref> and other campus staff,<ref name="pg"/>who believe ...]]. In the press release, SCCC offered to turn over all of their financial records to the media if The Brady Bunch would do the same. The press release also c

...r the Shanghai police between the World Wars, and allied special forces in World War II. He developed his own fighting system known as Defendu, as well as o During World War II, he was recruited by the British Secret Service as an Army officer;

...ith">Smith, Michael (May 2, 2010). "[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7113916.ece Hotshot sniper in one-and-a-half mile double ...gahmagabow]], a Canadian sniper with 378 confirmed kills, the highest in [[World War I]].

Canada had a gun registry earlier during World War II, when all people were compelled to register their firearms out of fe ...osun.com/News/Columnists/Bonokoski_Mark/2006/01/22/1405483.html Ammunition records listing legitimate gun owners may provide a handy 'shopping list' for crimi

...sighting trough instead of conventional sights) and [[Chiappa]] turned the world of [[revolvers]] upside-down (sort of) when they started cranking out the [ * The [[Canadian Firearms Program]] records a total of 1,831,327 valid [[PAL|firearm licences]], which is roughly 5.4%

...ture' should be taken to mean manufacture after the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. ...er") made in December 1898 and it is hence classified as an "antique", but records show that a Winchester Model 1894 with serial number 147,686 had its frame

...k (1600–1645 AD), and it is said to be one of the largest cannons in the world. Artillery was used by Indian armies predominantly for defending against be ...he Byzantine Empire according to Sir Charles Oman.<ref>Richard Holmes, The World Atlas of Warfare: Military Innovations that Changed the Course of History,

Production of the Auto-5 in Belgium continued until the start of [[World War II]], when Browning moved production to Remington Arms in the [[United ...00. Exact production figures are not available. Year of manufacture on Pre-World War II production is strictly a guess.

...al Foundation, [http://www.ahfrichmond.com/projectgraphics/130brow.ahf The WORLD WAR II BROWNING HI-POWER commemorative]</ref> It is most often called the " Browning Hi-Power pistols were used during World War II by both the Allied and the Axis powers. Belgium was occupied by the

...ars to ignore the severe problems caused by the presence in the Registry's records of "ghost guns" and "gone guns." The Registry's records show stocks of "ghost guns" in dealer inventory for virtually every dealer

... crimes are most often committed by younger, urban residents with criminal records, many involved in the drug trade, as opposed to the older, rural-dwelling c ...ed these records, he discovered that “the RCMP had stopped accepting FAC records and had actually destroyed those it already had.” Why? “Because the pol

...m licenses, which is roughly 5.6% of the Canadian population (based on CIA World Factbook [[July 2008]] estimate). The four most licensed provinces are Onta ...rearms registration certificates and carriers’ licences and maintain the records on [[Canadian Firearms Registry]]. The Registrar is also responsible for ad

...young age with a rifle that his father had brought back from Europe during World War II. Hathcock dreamed of being a Marine throughout his childhood,<ref na ...ipers in every platoon. Land later recruited Marines who had set their own records in sharpshooting; he quickly found Hathcock, who had won the [[Wimbledon Cu

...ng writer and Army officer who served in the Spanish American War and in [[World War I]]. ...every chance, and continued to do so after his retirement. He held several records in his lifetime in big game, on top of his two national pistol championship

... of such guns, acquired without a background check, is not from gun shows; records indicate only 2% of the guns acquired by inmates prior to incarceration cam ...CSGV supports the efforts of UNESCO, the United Nations, Interpol, and the World Health Organization to combat the illegal global trafficking of small arms.

...ssuing province. The Criminal Code did not provide for a central registry; records were maintained at the local level. ...se records were not centralized. Registration certificates were issued and records were kept by the Commissioner of the RCMP or by police departments that pro

...W licensees be 21 years of age or older, have clean criminal/mental health records, and complete a firearms safety/training course. * Today is also World Vegetarian* Day.

...ng this hypothesis can be gathered by studying the Second Amendment voting records of those legislators who have been convicted of willful misconduct. ...fect relationships and an even harder time appreciating just how cruel the world can be. These dysfunctionally unworldly types are truly perplexed at the ve