Gun: A Brief History Of The Shotgun

What is the importance of the gun? The gun is one of the most important tools in the defense of our nation. Guns are responsible for a lot of death and injuries, but these things were going on before the existence of the gun. Guns aren't the reason for the death and injuries, they are just a means to it. They are tools and an engineering marvel of our age. The gun has evolved from a simple weapon that caused limited destruction to the modern gun that is so fast and powerful it is capable of mass destruction. Through the evolution of the gun, it has become a political tool.

Today in this day in age people protect gun control and others are against it. The people who are for more gun control are more in city kind of people. Others ,who are more in the country, want more freedom for guns. I do understand that many people have guns, and that is okay. However the use of guns in our society is quite different than in the 1700’s.

First of all I am going to describe what exactly a shotgun is. A shotgun is designed to be fired from the shoulder. The shotgun fires a shell that holds numerous spherical pellets, also called shot when buying them from stores they are classified by the amount of

Over the past 10 years gun control has become a very hot topic among americans. Many mass shootings have drawn attention to the “problem” of gun control. Since the second amendment was ratified in 1791 it has been believed that owning a gun is a right that no one can take away. Gun control began to become a common issue in the 1930’s when the first gun “control” act was passed to limit the sale of guns forcing sellers to obtain a permit in order to keep vending the weapons. The cost of the permit was 1 dollar per year which is the equivalent of almost 20 dollars now. 1937 was towards the end of the great depression so one dollar was a lot to ask in that time. Although a high quality shotgun in the 1930’s could be purchased for as little as

Have you ever wondered how gunpowder was invented? Or how gunpowder has been a huge turning point in warfare for everyone? Gunpowder has a very interesting history, many uses, and most importantly has changed warfare drastically.

During the Civil War, rifled muskets were all the rage. The Rifled Musket was adopted by the U.S. Army in 1858. These new type of muskets had grooves inside of the barrel, meaning that if this gun was partnered with the Minié ball, it would increase both the range and the accuracy of the bullet. The smooth-bore musket (the previous generation of muskets) did not have grooves in the barrel. This means that the bullet is not spinning as it exits and there is a margin of error depending where the bullet exits. This severely reduces the accuracy of a smooth-bore musket. The farther the bullet goes, the more off-target it travels because of the aforementioned margin of error. The Minié ball had grooves and had

Gun control in America dates all the way back to 1791, the year that the countries Bill of Rights was signed and put into place.(“Gun Control And Gun Rights”, 2015) This bill was put into place for numerous reasons, but mainly it was to better and help insure the people’s rights. One of the rights in this bill is the right to bear arms or the second amendment to the Constitution. This Right has been a challenging one as of late. The control of firearms has largely been because of events in the history of the nation of America and slightly from politicians and everyday people that just want to have a false sense of security and feel a little safer.

“In 1939, Germany established gun control. From 1939 to 1945, six million Jews and seven million others unable to defend themselves were exterminated.” Joe Wurzelbacher. The history of gun control legislation started in the 1920s-1930, which made it so that the states and congress could make laws on guns, before this congress had no say on guns and this made it possible for them to create laws. The National Firearm Act of 1934 made it so that owners must register any sawed-off shotguns with the Treasury department and it also levied a $200 tax on the manufacturing or sale of machine guns. Then, just four years later they passed the National Firearms Act of 1938 requiring interstate gun dealers to be licensed and to record sales; this

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Somewhere around the world somebody just got shot. Somewhere else somebody just got stabbed to death. Some people would have been affected more by the death by gun because a decent amount around the world dump a lot of hatred towards guns and gun owners. It seems that guns have always received the most attention and concern from citizens, for years. They have been either hated or loved by the citizens of the United States since before the colonial days. They are not a bad mechanism for people to use; they are just, occasionally, misused or put into the wrong hands, that is how it is with every weapon. Many Americans, actually, honor this tool and have for centuries because guns are quite a big part of American history. It was a big enough part of history for the Founding Fathers of America to include it in one of the original ten Bill of Rights. Unfortunately, a part of the nation misuse the right given to citizens from the Second Amendment for things like murder. This has caused a good amount of people to believe gun use is the cause of the majority of deaths and the basis of crime, but these beliefs have been proven not true from various collections of studies and data. Guns are not as bad as they seem, and they should not be taken away or restricted harshly because they were trusted by the Founding Fathers of the United States and protected by the Second Amendment, are not one of the leading causes of all deaths and crimes in America, and taking them away will just stir

Few other American gunmakers have been more dedicated to the age-old and highly accurate style of rifle than the Massachusetts manufacturer. Even fewer gun company's win Savage's kudos for balancing price and performance in nearly everything it rolls off the factory floor. While it has recently expanded into producing more contemporary semi-automatic rifles, its bolt-actions still by and large take center stage. And Savage continues expanding and evolving to fill every niche in the turn-bolt world.

A firearm is a complex arrangement of various metals that can eject a small lead piece at high speeds, causing maximum destruction on the target with minimum energy delivery on the shooter themselves. (Definition of a Gun, n.d.) The mechanics of shooting any type of firearm; weather it be a rifle, shotgun, or pistol, includes a wide variety of physics topics working together to make the bullet hit its target including friction, force, conservation of momentum, transfer of energy, heat engines, and projectile motion. (The Physics of Shooting a Gun, n.d.)

When gunsmiths first started rechambering guns it was more labor intensive along with time-consuming. Gunsmiths had only a couple of different scrapers to get the job done. Maybe this was due to only having a couple of rounds for specific rifles, that I am not so sure of. Scrapers would normally run through the bore multiple times while being spun. Usually being spun by a hand wheel. After the scrapers had been rotated, the chamber would be a step closer to being complete.

What types of guns did they use in world war II. The m1911 is one of the guns that they used during world war II which was the standard-issue handgun in combat for the United States. There were a lot of ways they used it during world war II. The weapon had its origin in problems encounted by the American army in which the standard .38” cailber revolvor was found to be unsuitable. For the rigors, Thompson selected a more suitable weapon.

There is an estimated 300 million registered gun owners in the United States. With that many Americans owning guns, its not a surprise nearly 68% of all homicides reported to the FBI involved firearms. It’s a good thing the forensics of firearms has advanced to a point that with just a single round recovered, ballistic experts can tell investigators, what caliber round was fired what type of weapon fired the round, and in some cases the distance at which the round was fired. Without such advancement, more murderers would be walking free.