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    I have wanted to perform a custom paint job on one of my rifles for a long time. I first learned of people painting guns while at a new gun shop. The owner of the shop had a binder full of pictures of guns that he had painted. Upon seeing this I wanted to learn how to create amazing styles of camouflage and other designs for my rifles as well. I went onto the internet and watched videos on how to properly paint a firearm. I learned that to create the best effects was to paint the gun using a gravity

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    I’m writing to you today as a concerned citizen of district four. I have recently been looking into different views and perspectives on gun violence, and ways to help solve the issue in the United States without having it limit citizen’s right to bear arms. After the shooting in Las Vegas in early October where almost sixty people were left dead and five hundred others were injured, I was questioning the current policies and views of gun control in America (Times 2017). Some people believe that

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    My Design Of Sighting A Gun

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    I. The purpose for my design is to speed up the process of sighting a gun in, the scope to take into compensate the parabolic launch of a bullet, and to hit to target bulls’ eye. Sighting in a gun requires a long trial and error process that any hunter, marine, or police sniper would agree upon. As a bullet is fired from a rifle it rises a few inches for about one hundred yards or more where it descends below the axis of the barrel. The scope looks like any other scope but will account for the

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    Fifty eight people dead: the mass shooting in Las Vegas several weeks ago was the deadliest to ever occur in the history of the United states, and has once again sparked heated debates about gun control. It is an issue in which there is no perfect solution that will both retain an American’s right to bear arms while simultaneously eradicating possibility of mass shootings. Liberal media portrays guns as objects that only exist for the sake of appeasing conservatives, and conservative media portrays

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    Rifles and Muskets Springfield Model 1861: The Springfield Model 1861 was the most common weapon used during the Civil War. The Springfield’s barrel was 40 inches long, and fired a .58 caliber Minié ball. The total weight of the rifle was approximately 9 pounds. Because of these features, it is able to use percussion caps to fire at an effective range of 200 to 300 yards. Colt Revolving Rifles: The Colt revolving rifles were some of the first repeating rifles produced by the Colt's Manufacturing

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    Boy Scouts Gun Safety Hey, Parents! We are excited to introduce a gun safety course for the Boy Scouts at the Guadalupe-Parkway Sommerville Centers. The duration of the program will last four weeks, with the last week being live shooting from a gun range. Our purpose in this gun safety course is to provide our Boy Scouts with knowledge when it comes to firearm safety. We want to teach them how to handle properly a firearm and know what to do in the presences of a firearm. The firearm course instructor

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    Firearms can be investigated in many different ways. The most common way is examining the bullet. Bullet characteristics such as shape, impressions, and grooves can help determine what type of firearm the bullet was launched from. The same can be said for the bullets cartridge. You can identify what firearm was used just from the cartridge itself. When you load a cartridge into a firearm you will leave distinctive marks that can be identified. The cartridge doesn’t necessarily have to be fired in

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    Exploratory Research Paper on Campus Carry In many states across the United States, laws have been passed regarding carrying guns on campus. In states where they do allow students to conceal a firearm they must meet certain criteria. For example only students over the age of 21 are able to legally carry a firearm on campus with a handgun license. As mentioned in the beginning many any states have passed this law, but across the United States there are still a lot of states who debate on whether they

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    You’re walking down the street to get your morning cup of coffee. Someone jumps you with a knife. You have to give them everything. This is the harsh reality that many big cities have. Something has to be done about this, and the solution is quite simple. Handguns and concealed-carry permits should be easier to obtain. Increasing the amount of legal guns on the streat wouldn’t add violence, it would reduce it. Adam Winkler, a law professor at UCLA and the author of Gunfight: The Battle Over the

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    Rarely does something good ever end up as breaking news. No one ever reports things like, Carol stopped for that stop sign, way to follow the law! Or Jimmy used the crosswalk. Yay! No- that is just not how our world today works. I suppose, all the negativity is what keeps people interested in the news. Recently, the headlines have included gun violence tragedies that have shattered the country. Reports about firearms are often negative, though, you have to remember that a gun is machine, a machine

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