Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate
A disassembled Mauser action showing a partially disassembled receiver and bolt. In firearms terminology and law, the firearm frame or receiver is the part of a firearm which integrates other components by providing housing for internal action components such as the hammer, bolt or breechblock, firing pin and extractor, and has threaded interfaces for externally attaching ("receiving ...
The U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) was an independent agency of the United States government that existed from 1961 to 1999. Its mission was to strengthen United States national security by "formulating, advocating, negotiating, implementing and verifying effective arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament policies, strategies, and agreements."
The Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) is the foundation of the system of military justice of the armed forces of the United States.The UCMJ was established by the United States Congress in accordance with their constitutional authority, per Article I Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, which provides that "The Congress shall have Power . . . to make Rules for the Government and ...
Law enforcement agencies may have some 26 million small arms. [9] Non-state armed groups [c] have about 1.4 million firearms. [d] [9] Finally, gang members hold between 2 and 10 million small arms. [9] Together, the small arms arsenals of non-state armed groups and gangs have been estimated to account for, at most, 1.4% of the global total. [10]
According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the international framework on firearms is composed of three main instruments: the Firearms Protocol, the United Nations Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects (Programme of Action, or PoA) and the International Instrument to Enable States to Identify ...
FM 100–5, Field Service Regulations, Operations (with included Change No. 1) 7 February 1964 [24] This manual supersedes FM 100–5, 27 September 1954, including C 1, 16 December 1954, C 2, 27 July 1956, and C 3, 24 January 1958. Earle G. Wheeler: INACTIVE: FM 100–5: FM 100–5, Field Service Regulations, Operations: 19 February 1962 [25]
The Arms Control and Disarmament Act established the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA). [4] The U.S. federal organization developed the formulation and implementation of the United States arms control and disarmament policy. The agency provided information and recommendations with regards to U.S. economic, foreign, and national ...