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The Firearm Study Pack contains about 13 pages of study material in 4 products, including:

Encyclopedia Articles (3)

The Invention of Guns

1,189 words, approx. 4 pages

The Invention of Guns Overview The invention of guns followed the development of the explosive black powder in China. The first guns were simple tubes from which to shoot explosive charges, but gradua... Read more

Advances in Firearms

1,206 words, approx. 5 pages

Advances in Firearms Overview The first firearms were small canons, the earliest of which was known as the millimete canon, dating from 1326. Public records from Florence in that same year that indica... Read more

Firearms

1,314 words, approx. 5 pages

Firearms The right to carry a gun, whether for purposes of self-protection or hunting animals, is an emotional issue embedded deep in the cultural consciousness of the United States. By the 1990s, aft... Read more

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News & Journals (7)

War Over Firearms

498 words, approx. 2 pages

Gun Control: Left-leaning editorial boards both here and in Europe leaned so hard after the Virginia Tech shootings that they fell all over themselves making spurious arguments. It was, of course, ... Read more

Ky. fraud trial features famous firearms

675 words, approx. 3 pages

The evidence will look like a prop list from a John Wayne movie when three antique gun enthusiasts go on trial Monday on charges of bilking a millionaire collector.Buffalo Bill's Winchester rifle. ... Read more

Indonesian police seize cache of explosives, firearms

350 words, approx. 2 pages

Jakarta (dpa) - Indonesian police have seized a cache of weapons in Central Java province following a gunfight that killed one Islamic terrorist suspect and wounded another,... Read more

Despite gun control laws, firearm rentals require few checks at nation's firing ranges

913 words, approx. 4 pages

The 35-year-old woman handled her 9 mm Glock with ease. For three straight days, she honed her aim and hit bull's-eye after bull's-eye from the firing line at the Boston Gun Range.Then she put the ... Read more

Australian study shows guns really do kill people

363 words, approx. 2 pages

Sydney (dpa) - Martin Bryant, the half-witted loner who shot dead 35 people at an Australian beauty spot in 1996, has fulfilled the prediction of psychologists and is settli... Read more

Australia avoided US gun culture through controls, Howard says

333 words, approx. 2 pages

Sydney (dpa) - Stricter gun controls enacted after a 1996 shooting massacre are to thank for preventing a US-style gun culture from developing in Australia, Australian Prime... Read more

Study shows gun control worked in Australia

382 words, approx. 2 pages

Sydney (dpa) - Stricter gun controls implemented after the world's worst shooting massacre 11 years ago may have saved 2,500 lives, Australian researchers said Monday. ... Read more