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    Influences of Civil War Technology

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    influence the design has. It went through many steps to become its final product during the civil war, the design was improved so much that it become one of the reasons so many people ended up being killed instead of being just injured. The design let the rifle be loaded much faster, shoot farther, and be more deadly.

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    Morning brought with it heavy rain, the nail-like droplets pelleted against the rim of my helmet and gathered in a puddle between my feet where I sat. The rippling pool brought a sense of peacefulness to the harsh conditions the trenches brought. The rain muffled the sounds of stray gunfire and stomach-curdling screams, it helped to take my mind off of what were to come over the course of the next few days. The things Ive seen will never be forgotten, visions of people I considered brothers being

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    first German soldiers were spotted. I held my rifle at my shoulder and looked through the small cut out in the trench. Thousands of Germans were running through open fields. Red mist coming out of most. A deafening array of gunfire to my left and right. With the rifle’s sight up to my eye, German soldiers were put into picture, and with a squeeze of a trigger, and a loud scream, they would fall over. Flashes of light came from 300 meters away. German snipers were picking out targets from an almost unreachable

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    Looking back on my attitude at the time, I realize how little understanding and gratitude I had for the life of humans and animals. From this experience however, I am able to appreciate how I have changed. We left at roughly 4:30 a.m. with our packs and rifles. My father carried a Remington 870 shotgun loaded with slug ammunition (a shotgun round consisting of a single large round) to use at closer distances and almost guaranteed a kill.

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    we called it hunting, because we didn't have an idea exactly what we were hunting for. We had forty acres of my backyard to do our merciless killing of defenseless animals. We were two ignorant kids with semi-automatic and lever-action .22 caliber rifles.

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    Christa Engles was the mother of two young children. In 2014, her older 3 year old son had found a semiautomatic weapon hidden underneath the couch and shot his mother who was changing the diaper of his 1 year old younger sister. With unbelieving eyes, the toddler stood by his mother and continuously repeated two words: Mommy shot. By the time his grandmother had arrived, both of the children were covered with blood, mentally and physically (Holloway). This type of accidental shooting is no longer

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    The Sniper - Original Writing The long June twilight faded into night. Dublin lay covered in mist and enveloped in darkness but for the dim light of the moon that glazed through fleecy clouds, casting a pale light approaching dawn over the streets and the dark waters of the Lake. Around the deserted Four Courts the heavy guns roared. Here and there through the city, machine guns and rifles broke the silence of the night, like dogs barking on lone farms. Republicans

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    is a semi-automatic .30 calibre gun which was used by the American WWII Forces during the Second World War. It was a widely used by the American forces and was a very successful gun against many of its competitors such as the Arisaka or the German rifle 98 Mauser. The mechanism for this gun is a gas operated rotating bolt action single fire gun. The M1 Garand was manufactured from 1936 to 1957 and was manufactured by the Springfield Armoury, Winchester and Beretta. It was later manufactured in Harrington

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    the moon that shone through fleecy clouds, casting a pale light as of approaching dawn over the streets and the dark waters of the Liffey. Around the beleaguered Four Courts the heavy guns roared. Here and there through the city, machine guns and rifles broke the silence of the night, spasmodically, like dogs barking on lone farms. Republicans and Free Staters were waging civil war. On one evening, a man drove up in an armoured car, and had experienced something that had happened before, but not

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    Necessary Restrictions of Assault Weapons It seems that gunmen can walk freely in schools at present. Too many murders with assault rifles and pistols happened in campus. The Americans laying down under gunfire are not troopers patrolling in Middle East threating by terrorism, but children having classes and playing with friends in campus. Every police officer and nurse cannot forget the tears left on faces of who can never see the sun of tomorrow and even celebrate their 10-year birthdays. Arguments

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