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    According to uslegal.com (n.d.), a semi-automatic rifle is a type of rifle that fires a single bullet each time the trigger is pulled. These rifles are also commonly known as self-loading rifles or auto-loading rifles. In March of 1989, a rifle import ban was enforced on the importing of semi-automatic rifles by President Bush. The rifle import ban was enforced to halt the circulation of foreign semi-automatic rifles. Mainly AK-47’s, as it was considered communist and was used in a mass shooting

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    in aurora, colorado and newtown connecticut leave us all liberal and conservative, republican and democrat appalled and disgusted at the carnage now some people want to place the blame for this horror on things like 30 round magazines or semi automatic rifles. we want to blame something anything we can control, but what we really want to ban is violence and murder and insanity and we dont talk about that though because deep in our hearts each of us knows that violence and murder and insanity are built

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    Saving Private Ryan Saving Private Ryan portrays the experiences of the mysterious captain John Miller and his army ranger Squad. The story accurately depicts what could have happened to a comparable unit mission shown had actually existed. No Saving Private Ryan character ever existed. Furthermore, it is unlikely that Saving Private Ryan’s mission ever would have been ordered. The mission shown is improbable because United States army sole survivor policy “is applicable only in peacetime.”

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    Automatic Weapon Ban

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    Automatic Weapon Ban July 20th, 2012, twelve are killed and fifty-eight are injured at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. The man who killed them used a semi-automatic rifle with a one hundred round magazine. An automatic weapon has no use in the United States because all sporting events, and activities with guns can be accomplished without automatic weapons. It is important because it limits the possibilities of events like the shooting at the Sandusky school in Ohio. Some would say they are a

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    creates an assumption that guns are scary and extremely dangerous. Many people do not know the enormous differences between a semi-automatic rifle, and a fully automatic rifle. A semi-automatic rifle is “a firearm designed to fire a single cartridge, eject the empty case, and reload the chamber every time the trigger is pulled” (concealednation.org). A fully-automatic rifle is “a firearm designed to feed cartridges, fire them, eject their empty cases, and repeat this cycle as long as the trigger is depressed

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    weapon used by the military that can shoot fully automatic by just holding the trigger, and in some sense, they are right, but what they fail to see is, those are highly illegal in some states, and in others require a class 3 military contractor license and hundreds of thousands of dollars to acquire, which your daily American cannot afford. The term assault weapon by definition is a weapon that can be switch between semi-automatic, and full automatic, the weapons that we see, being

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    Essay On Assault Weapons

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    Policy: At least 84 people have been killed and 119 have been injured so far this year in 86 shooting incidents involving assault-style rifles, according to data compiled by the Gun Violence Archive, a not-for-profit corporation that tracks gun violence. The reason for the shootings can happen for numerous reasons such as terror or criminal acts. Regardless, this is happening because these delinquents have an easy access to assault weapons. Consequently, assault weapons should be banned and made

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    M16A4 rifles are good in their own separate ways. One may be better in one aspect, the other in another. The rifles ultimately “balance” each other in separate categories. Both rifles came into service in the 2000’s. Of the two, I believe the AK-12 is the better rifle. The AK-12 is a somewhat heavy rifle. At 3.3 KG, it is heavier than the M16A4. It has a shorter length than the M16A4. It’s barrel is also shorter, at 415mm, it is shorter than the M16A4 as well. The AK-12 has a fully automatic system

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    M1 Garand Research Paper

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    was trying to build a .276 T3E2 rifle. The two rifles went through many test together and the .276 T3E2 rifle was leading the way. During the testing of the two rifles, Army Chief of Staff General Douglas McArthur, was against changing the rifle because they had too many .30 M1 ammunition in stock. On February 25, 1932, the Adjutant General John B. Shurman, who was representing the secretary of war, made an announcement to stop the production of the .276 rifle and ammunition and to now move their

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