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The Guns of August (published in the UK as August 1914) is a 1962 book centered on the first month of World War I written by Barbara W. Tuchman. After introductory chapters, Tuchman describes in great detail the opening events of the conflict. The book's focus then becomes a military history of the contestants, chiefly the great powers.
Knoxville, Tennessee: Rifles S. C. Robinson Arms Manufactory (Samuel C. Robinson) Richmond, Virginia: Produced a variant of the M1859 Sharps carbine: ca. 3,000 .52 caliber Sharps carbines. Marks, “Robinson Arms Co.” Selma Naval Foundry & Ironworks (Selma Arsenal & Gun Works) Selma, Alabama: 1861 Iron plating, Brooke rifled cannon, ironclad ...
The bill, sponsored by Senate President Charlie Huggins, refers to the gun as the "rifleman's rifle." The bill says the gun helped Alaskans "establish a firm foothold" in the wilderness between 1930 and 1963. [6] In May 2021, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a resolution declaring the Colt Walker to be the official Texas state firearm. [7]
In a large city that struggles with gun violence, Metro Nashville police have seized more than 15,000 firearms just in the past six years. So what happens to most of those guns?
Fischer's first book, Germany's Aims in the First World War, was published in 1961 (and not published in English until 1967), and The Guns of August was published in 1962. Most of the sources Tuchman does cite are much older, the great majority were published before the Second World War.
The rate of guns stolen from cars in the U.S. has tripled in the past decade with Memphis leading the nation, a new report shows. Overall, the report released Thursday from gun safety group ...
Tennessee’s GOP-dominated House on Thursday expelled the first of three Democratic members who were at risk of being thrown out of the Legislature for their role in a demonstration calling for ...
This is an extensive list of small arms—including pistols, revolvers, submachine guns, shotguns, battle rifles, assault rifles, sniper rifles, machine guns, personal defense weapons, carbines, designated marksman rifles, multiple-barrel firearms, grenade launchers, underwater firearms, anti-tank rifles, anti-materiel rifle and any other variants.