The History of Firearms Magazines and Magazine ProhibitionsfirearmsmagazinesSecond AmendmentHellerIn recent years, the prohibition of firearms magazines has become an important topic of law and policy debate. This Article details the history of magazines andSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
Dive into the evolution of firearms & their role in history, from confederate revolvers, Soviet anti-tank rifles, to the M60 machine gun.
The name Remington is synonymous with the history of the United States, from the Civil War, the two world wars, and every skirmish in between . . . to outlaws beyond the pale, and the law enforcement officers hired to catch them. The name is equally synonymous with hunting, from casual ...
and there emerged firearms utilizing the reactive force of gunpowder, which could be said to be the forerunners of modern rockets. That period even saw an experiment with man-carried “firearrows.” A man named Wan Hu made a device...
Mythical moments in Remington brand history To investigate the brand history of Remington firearms, this study introduces and applies a new construct, the mythical moment', which is defined as an episode when the course of brand mythmaking quickens and has greater cultural resonan... Witkowski,...
An example given by Jared Diamond is the development history of guns in Japan. In the 16th century, the Japanese first came into contact with muskets brought by Portuguese businessmen. In a short time, Japanese blacksmiths disassembled them, found out its working principle, and began to experime...
(though not to domination) goes without saying. But I submit that in the ordinary life of the modern world the question of muscular strength or weakness has very little significance. Even on those rare occasions when it becomes pressing, the invention of firearms has reduced its importance very...
The history of the Kongo peoples in the 16th century, for example, is largely the story of how the Atlantic slave trade created powerful vested interests among provincial chiefs, which over time undermined the kingdom’s capacity to resist encroachments by its neighbours. By the late 16th ...
Word History:Indo-European, the protolanguage from which English and many other languages descend, had pairs of words for some very common things, such as water or fire. Typically, one word in the pair was active, animate, and personified; the other, impersonal and neuter in grammatical gender...
History of the Philippines, a survey of notable events and people in the history of the Philippines. The Philippines takes its name from Philip II, who was king of Spain during the Spanish colonization of the islands in the 16th century. Because it was u