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- U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit is the only organization of its kind in the Army today. Formed in 1956 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the unit produces America's best competitive shooters and the Army's finest custom gunsmiths, AMU officials said. The AMU trains Soldier-athletes to win...
- Research articles 2008-02-01
- Courage vs. carnage
- TWELVE people are killed and more than a dozen injured in a week's time in three mass shootings -- at a shopping mall and a church, and on a school bus. Almost as horrifying as these heartland shootings is the muted reaction to the tragedies, an almost blase acceptance that...
- Research articles 2007-12-14
- Clues sought after random US mall rampage
- OMAHA, Nebraska AFP — Authorities Thursday searched for clues to why a teenager armed with an assault rifle randomly opened fire on Christmas shoppers in a mall, killing at least eight before turning the gun on himself. "It appears random and the duration of this event only lasted a...
- Research articles 2007-12-06
- Kalashnikov sets sights on global 'counterfeits'
- IZHEVSK, Russia AFP — Mikhail Kalashnikov, designer of the world's most famous assault rifle, is angry with what he calls "counterfeit" production of his gun and the rifle's producer has the culprits in its sights. "They just use the brand, the fame. It's not fair," Kalashnikov, 87, said at...
- Research articles 2007-08-09
- Israel authorises 1,000 guns for Palestinian Authority: report
- JERUSALEM AFP — Israel recently authorised a shipment of 1,000 rifles from Jordan to the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank, a newspaper reported on Thursday. The largest ever arms transfer authorised by Israel to security forces loyal to Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in the West Bank, it...
- Research articles 2007-07-26
- US seizes nine in Laos armed coup plot
- SAN FRANCISCO AFP — US police arrested nine people charged with plotting to use rifles and rockets to overthrow the communist government in the southeast Asian nation of Laos, a prosecutor in California said Monday. The suspects, mostly members of the Hmong ethnic group, were seized after US authorities...
- Research articles 2007-06-04
- Gun points
- IN 1996, AFTER an assailant massacred 85 people at a resort area in Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australians responded to the horror by banning the possession of automatic rifles and shotguns. Gunowners proceeded to turn in 650,000 guns to the government which reimbursed them for the cost. Since that year, gun...
- Research articles 2007-05-29
- Israeli soldiers shoot child playing with toy gun
- BETHLEHEM AFP — A Palestinian child playing with a plastic rifle has been shot and wounded by Israeli soldiers near Bethlehem in the West Bank. Miras al-Azza, 12, was shot in the belly when Israel soldiers opened fire on a group of children playing with a plastic rifle in the...
- Research articles 2006-12-08
- Police: New York cop killer nabbed in cornfield BON POUR TOUS
- NEW YORK AFP — Police have caught one of the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives," in the shootings of three New York State troopers, when bloodhounds cornered him in a cornfield in Pennsylvania. "At 8:00 tonight, Bucky Phillips ... could run but he could not hide," New York State police...
- Research articles 2006-09-08
- Clarett's problems overcome promise.(Maurice Clarett has spiraled downward.)(Defeat of Joe Lieberman in last week's Democratic Senate primary.)
- Byline: Brian Tucker Greed is an incredibly vile and powerful force. Witness the self-destruction of Maurice Clarett. The young man who led the Ohio State University football team to its first national championship in nearly four decades has spiraled downward since...
- Research articles 2006-08-14
- Ronnie Barrett, President and founder of Barrett Firearms, named as an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year for 2006
- MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -- Ronnie Barrett was honored June 28th at a special 20th anniversary gala event at the Grand Hyatt Atlanta. More than 500 of the region's most successful business people attended. An independent panel composed of leaders from business, academic, and civic organizations selected Barrett because he turned...
- Research articles 2006-07-05
- Weapons corner: sniper rifles then and now
- 1. A standard Russian infantry rifle since the 1st World War, the M91/30 Mosin-Nagant fires a rimmed cartridge--the 7.62x54R--whose external ballistics approximated those of our own service cartridge, the .30/06. Fitted with a 3.5 power telescopic sight which worked well out to around 500 yards, this was the standard Russian...
- Research articles 2006-07-01
- British record label boss, shot by son, remains in coma
- LONDON AFP — Jill Sinclair, whose ZTT Records label introduced such British acts as Frankie Goes To Hollywood and Seal to music fans worldwide, remained in an induced coma in hospital, two days after she was accidentally shot by her own son, a spokeswoman said. Her record producer husband...
- Research articles 2006-06-27
- Police arrest British aristocrat accused in new Kenya slaying
- NAIVASHA, Kenya AFP — Kenyan police have arrested a British aristocrat who shot a man dead on his family's ranch a little over a year after killing a game warden on the premises, police said. They said Thomas Cholmondeley, son of the fifth Baron Delamere and great-grandson of Kenya's...
- Research articles 2006-05-11
- Celebrated Winchester rifle may have fired last shot
- WASHINGTON AFP — The famous Winchester rifle glorified in American Westerns may have fired its last shot as a plant where it had been manufactured since 1866 closed its doors last week. One hundred eighty-six employees of the US Repeating Arms Company plant located in New Haven, Connecticut, were...
- Research articles 2006-04-02
- Four Kenyans charged in slaying of British filmmaker
- NAIVASHA, Kenya AFP — A Kenyan court charged four men with attempted robbery with violence in connection with the brutal slaying last month of a well-known British conservationist and filmmaker. Police sources said the suspects had not yet been charged with murder because the case was still under investigation...
- Research articles 2006-02-01
- Britain's Prince Harry on parade
- LONDON AFP — Britain's Prince Harry marched quick-time in a pristine military uniform with his rifle on his shoulder during a prestigious parade at the elite Sandhurst military academy. The 21-year-old, third in line to the throne, marched during the Sovereign's Parade before Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, who...
- Research articles 2005-12-16
- Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army
- Love my rifle more than you; young and female in the U.S. Army. Williams, Kayla. W.W. Norton 2005 290 pages $24.95 Hardcover U53 Williams, part of the female 15 percent of the US Army, served five years in the military, including a...
- Research articles 2005-11-01
- RAAF to try maintenance data buttons.
- Byline: Ben Woodhead Oct 23, 2005 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- In 2006, the Royal Australian Air Force will trial a new system aimed at increasing the ...
- Research articles 2005-10-23
- Indonesia's Aceh rebels begin disarmament
- BANDA ACEH, AFP — Separatist rebels in Indonesia's Aceh province began disarming under a peace pact designed to end almost three decades of war. Members of the Free Aceh Movement GAM handed over Kalashnikov rifles, handguns, a machine gun and a rocket propelled grenade launcher to monitors from Europe...
- Research articles 2005-09-15
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