Guns of the Civil War tend to fall into two categories: mass produced weapons used in huge numbers by both sides, and experimental or small-run weapons made ...
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Information and Articles About Civil War Guns, aweaponused in theAmerican Civil War Many guns were used in the civil war, including rifles, handguns, muskets and bullets. Many technological advances in weaponry occurred during the Civil War, rendering the weapons far more lethal and contributing ...
gun laws and gun rights were perfectly compatible. Only in the last few decades have the two become locked in a zero-sum relationship, where a gain for one side is seen as a loss for the other. Second, these prolific and varied gun laws make clear that the default in Ameri...
An estimated 70 percent of firearms used in crimes nationwide are bought at gun shows according to the Justice Department Firearms and Crimes of Violence report. Having gone to a gun show here in Texas a few years ago, I found myself in a room full of the most disgusting people in my ...
I mean, sure, TJ was talking about Daniel Shays, a farmhand in western Massachusetts who was having trouble paying his taxes, partly because he was also having trouble collecting the pay he was supposed to have received as a grunt in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. There...
What were guns like during the 18th century? What were they used for, and by whom? An 18th-century musket worked really differently from a gun today. They couldn't even be aimed properly, so they were primarily used as an instrument of terror. ...
Seymour Reit re-creates the true story of Will Knox, a nineteen-year-old boy who undertook the daring and dangerous task of transporting 183 cannons from New York's Fort Ticonderoga to Boston--in the dead of winter--to help George Washington win an important battle.Seymour Reit...
A Very Rare example of an American Revolutionary War Used Regimentally Marked Longland/1st Model Brown Bess Musket, dtd. 1762. The type of arm supplied to British Troops stationed in the Colonies, before & during the early part of the American Revolution. For additional information and similar...
* A 1993 nationwide survey of 4,977 households found that over the previous five years, at least 0.5% of households had members who had used a gun for defense during a situation in which they thought someone “almost certainly would have been killed” if they “had not used a gun for ...