Rifle
The modern rifle is considered a descendant of the musket, a large caliber smoothbore weapon for infantry use. By 1550, the musket had become the most important weapon in Europe, because the amm...
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A 15-year-old boy used a World War II-era sniper rifle to fatally shoot a deputy and critically wound another outside his southern Indiana home, authorities said Tuesday.The teen, Tyler Dumstorf, h...
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It was a ricochet nearly 50 years in the making. At age 8, Terry Jackson gave up his prized .22-caliber Winchester short-barrel rifle to get his grandmother a washer. Recently, the 57-year-old...
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It was a ricochet nearly 50 years in the making. At age 8, Terry Jackson gave up his prized .22-caliber Winchester short-barrel rifle to get his grandmother a washer. Recently, the 57-year-old...
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Havana (dpa) - Fidel Castro and several people who later took part
in his attempts to overthrow Cuban ruler Fulgencio Batista
unwittingly practised shooting with rifles belo...
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TBILISI, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Soldiers from NATO aspirant
Georgia switched their Soviet-era Kalashnikov rifles on Friday
for U.S.-designed M4 carbines in part of a drive to distance
themselves from ...
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OMAHA, Neb. (Reuters) - A 19-year-old school dropout
who shot and killed eight people and himself at a Nebraska
shopping mall smuggled a stolen assault rifle into the building
wrapped in a sweatsh...
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Yangon (dpa) - Hundreds of riot police and soldiers were stationed
Wednesday at Yangon's City Hall in preparation for a crackdown on a
monk-led rebellion that has seized the...
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Yangon (dpa) - Hundreds of riot police and soldiers were stationed
Wednesday at Yangon's City Hall in preparation for a crackdown on a
monk-led rebellion that has seized the...
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Baylough, Afghanistan (dpa) Baheer has been shot at, blown up
twice by Taliban roadside bombs and forced to abandon his school
education to support his family. But th...
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