One afternoon in the spring of 2006, for reasons unknown to those who knew him, Mitchell Henderson, a seventh grader from Rochester, Minn., took a .22-caliber rifle down from a shelf in his parents
? bedroom closet and shot himself in the head. The next morning, Mitchell?s school assembled in the gym to begin mourning.
During a speech before the National Rifle Association convention, former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, who has endorsed presumptive nominee John McCain, joked that an unexpected offstage noise was Democrat Barack Obama looking to avoid a gunman. “That was Barack Obama. Somebody aimed a gun at him and he dove for the floor.”
“I was very anti-gun when my kids were little,” says Stephen Scherer’s mother. She eventually softened her stance and bought Stephen and his younger sister, toy water guns shaped like elephants. But Stephen wanted more. He made complicated pistols with Legos. Air rifle is Scherer’s best event, but he also competes in small-bore rifle events
Brickarms can help you build your private army with everything you need, from the superadvanced Colonial Marines’ Xeno Pulse Rifles to NATO’s G36 Assault Rifles to vintage German Rocket Propeller Grenade launchers and even PPK pistols with Brausch silencers. It your private army is a bunch of LEGO minifigs, that is. Interview with the “arms dealer”
A man armed with a rifle opened fire on worshippers at a Colorado Springs, Colorado, megachurch Sunday afternoon, wounding several people, church and hospital officials reported.
Clifford E. Clark, 47, was charged with felony vandalism and reckless endangerment for allegedly firing at least three rounds from a .30-06 hunting rifle at the camera, knocking it out of action.
The Firefly solves that nagging battlefield problem of needing a quick look over the next hill, by deploying a disposable ballistic camera from a standard-issue, rifled-mounted grenade launcher
As seen in the 1986 movie “Aliens”, this prop became an instant classic. With is fully functional hero models that fired 45 cal. blanks, and 12 guage shot gun rounds, to the ultra-slick O.D. green shrouds, this prop is the rare weapon that could actually do what it appeared to do in the movie! Shoot! This ain’t no raygun, baby!
AK47s, Gatling guns, Tommy Guns, and double barrel rifles–this list collects the non-lethal weaponry that really pushes the boundaries of office safety.
Since their inception guns and rifles have drastically altered the landscape of war, leaders and authority. We have researched and compiled the Top Ten Military Rifles of all time that have re-defined history, including their specifications and uses.
