Some say the differences between what is considered an assault weapon and what is not can be trivial. Suzanne Le Mignot reports.Dec 5, 2024 Twitter Facebook Email Live Now CBS News 24/7 CBS News Baltimore CBS News Bay Area CBS News Boston ...
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What we now call assault rifles can trace their origins back to the Second World War. While that conflict is remembered for introducing advanced technologies like radar, jet aircraft, and nuclear weapons, the average infantryman went into WWII armed essentially the same weapon his parents ...
“An assault is either an attempt at battery—I try to hit you, but you step out of the way, and I miss—or any physical act that places another person in fear of imminent bodily injury,” explains Wade. “For example, shaking your fist like you’re about to punch someone, or getti...
Such a ban converts these law abiding citizens into possessors of “assault weapons”, and since most people who own a gun for home defense don’t read the fine print of the laws that are passed, they won’t even know that their perfectly normal 9MM handgun is now an “assault weapon...
Steve Cercone: This is the alleyway that they came down … Investigators say one of the three suspects on surveillance video, highlighted, was holding an assault rifle.Santa Cruz County Court If the idea was to rob the millionaire, the plan had gone horribly awry. At the preliminary h...
Not prohibited by state an/or federal law from possessing a firearm The county sheriff grants concealed weapon licenses to all legally eligible applicants aged twenty-one and above. It is mandatory to complete an approved firearms training course. Once you have your permit, you can carry a conc...
“Certainly a second serious incident, apparently involving an assault weapon, is deeply alarming and appalling,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., the chair of the Senate subcommittee investigating the security failures at Butler. President Joe Biden told reporters Monday that “the S...
This article briefly summarizes the place of guns in British society and culture in the long eighteenth century. My approach is that of a historical anthropologist, examining the meaning of guns from the way they were used and depicted. I examine the way