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Interestingly, both nations approached the same problem from opposite ends. Unlike most armies, the tactical structure of the GermanWehrmachtwas organized not around the rifleman, but rather the machine gun squad, with rifle-carrying infantry playing a supporting role. This is a major reas...
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The value of what the Jewish refugees had stolen from them was many times greater than anything the Arab refugees can claim they lost The attack on the Jewish communities was unprovoked and on an innocent civilian population. The same is not true of much of the Arab population in the mandat...
A rifle fitted with the accessory uses the gun's recoil energy to rapidly and repeatedly bump the trigger, allowing the user to fire dozens of bullets in seconds, similar to an automatic weapon. Bump stocks were invented in the early 2000s after a 1994 ban targeting assault ...
1977. The year of living dangerously. It was a nice, bright sunny day. I was 9 years old, all the cousins younger than me, all of us without a care in the galaxy. We had been prepped for this outing for a while by the twin fathers. We were going to see a space movie. Really...
My story started, as many do, when I was a teenager, a 15-year-old ballerina smart kid who fell into the hands of a 21-year-old, grown-ass man. He used manipulation, threats, gaslighting, intimidation and physical abuse to keep me frozen in carbonite for years. Over time, he shut ...
December 1: Unraveling the 50-Year Mystery of the Body in the Basement December 1: Belgium becomes first country to give sex workers robust labor rights and protections December 5: Italian nun arrested over links to powerful mafia network December 6: She’s 74 — and expecting: Wisdom the al...
Two Texas border guards find a jeep buried for 20 years in the desert, with a skeleton, a scoped rifle, and a box with $800,000 in cash. They decide to keep the money, but quietly check up on the info they find. Soon the Feds are running all over the place, and it looks like...
Mario was his age ,and Linda was a year younger .They had fun together .Last summer they spent one whole morning making a fort out of sacks of seed.Then Uncle Henry had taken them on a tractor ride. Julio remembered another time with his cousins.They had gone out to explode the ...