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21st-century hunting compound crossbow. A crossbow is a ranged weapon using an elastic launching device consisting of a bow-like assembly called a prod, mounted horizontally on a main frame called a tiller, which is hand-held in a similar fashion to the stock of a long gun. Crossbows shoot arrow-like projectiles called bolts or quarrels.
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In the Netherlands crossbows are regulated by the "wet wapens en munitie" (law on weapons and ammunition). Crossbows and crossbow bolts are placed in category 4, along with bows, swords, spears, etc. It is legal to possess weapons from this category providing that the individual is over 18. It is not allowed to carry those weapons in public.
The Bradford murders were the serial killings of three women in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England in 2009 and 2010.. 43-year-old Susan Rushworth disappeared on 22 June 2009, followed by 31-year-old Shelley Armitage on 26 April 2010 and 36-year-old Suzanne Blamires on 21 May of the same year. [1]
Crossbows were mass-produced in state armouries with designs improving as time went on, such as the use of a mulberry wood stock and brass; a crossbow in 1068 AD could pierce a tree at 140 paces. [27] Crossbows were used in numbers as large as 50,000 starting from the Qin dynasty and upwards of several hundred thousand during the Han. [28]
The main armament of the Genoese crossbowmen was the crossbow, made in Genoa by the Balistrai Corporation. As well, the mercenaries were equipped with a dagger, a light metal helmet, a gorget, a hauberk and a large shield, called a pavese , which was used while reloading the crossbow. The usual team consisted of a crossbowman and two assistants ...
The attack was said to have been carried out because he was rumoured to have been responsible for the non-fatal shooting of a man the previous month. A man was sentenced to a minimum of 25 years in prison in September 2007 for being complicit in the fatal July 2006 shooting of a suspect in Stanislas's murder. [288] [289] March 2005 Orville Davidson
Robert Hansen was born in Estherville, Iowa, on February 15, 1939, the eldest of two children to an American mother, Edna Margret Hansen (née Petersen; October 27, 1916 – April 24, 2005) [5] and a Danish father, local baker Christian "Chris" Hansen (September 16, 1907 – August 12, 1983). [6]