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The Winchester Model 1912, also commonly known as the Winchester 1912, Model 12, or M12, is an internal-hammer pump-action shotgun with an external tube magazine. Popularly named the Perfect Repeater at its introduction, it largely set the standard for pump-action shotguns over its 51-year high-rate production life. From August 1912 until first ...
The wood forearm of a Browning BLR. In firearms, the forearm (also known as the fore-end/forend, handguard or forestock) is a section of a gunstock between the receiver and the muzzle. It is used as a gripping surface to hold the gun steady and is usually made out of heat-insulating material such as wood or reinforced plastic.
The Beretta M12 (Model 12) is a 9×19mm Parabellum caliber submachine gun designed by Beretta. Production started in 1959, the first users were the Italian Carabinieri , Italian State Police and the Guardia di Finanza , though in limited numbers; it was only widely issued beginning in 1978, replacing the old Beretta MAB .
Black Diamonds: Mountaintop Removal & The Fight for Coalfield Justice is a 2006 documentary film made and directed by filmmaker Chet Pancake. [1] The narration in the film is by actress Lauren Graham. The film is about the impact of mountaintop removal mining on the mountains, environment, and people in the Appalachia area of West Virginia.
Mountain Top Removal won the Reel Current Award (presented by Al Gore) at the 2008 Nashville Film Festival. [3] The film also received a Jury award at the 2008 Wild and Scenic Film Festival, an Audience Award at the 2008 Woods Hole Film Festival and was screened at The Lincoln Center on Earth Day April 22, 2008. [ 4 ]
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.
The Huntsman and Sidekick muzzle loaders used a telescoping threaded ramrod that was designed to be able to be placed forward of the forearm lug and still match barrel length. The rod would be used to place the projectile the majority of the way down the barrel with the rod collapsed, then the rod would be extended in order to fully seat the ...
Most people enter military service “with the fundamental sense that they are good people and that they are doing this for good purposes, on the side of freedom and country and God,” said Dr. Wayne Jonas, a military physician for 24 years and president and CEO of the Samueli Institute, a non-profit health research organization.