... . The majority of the men all worked at the Brooklyn station house sometime in the past. These eight men accepted thousands of dollars in bribes to drive a caravan of M-16 rifles and handguns, as well as stolen merchandise, across state lines. For these crimes, they face charges of conspiracy to transport firearms across state lines, conspiracy to transport defaced firearms across ... ...

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... the ban for guns in our community, what is? The gun buy-back in 1997, following the Port Arthur massacre was high successful. 643,726 semi-automatic rifles, machine guns and millions of other rifles where taken out of our community. The results showed success, homicides fell by 10% and the proportion of armed robbers using firearms fell by 37%. There is ... ...

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... , the world was alerted of another tragic act of terrorism that had taken place, only, this time, time, it happened in France. Two Islamist terrorists who were armed with assault rifles and several other weapons forced their way into the building and offices of the world known satirical (weekly) newspaper Charlie Hebdo. Approximately fifty shots were fired, resulting in the death ... ...

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... a poorly trained and equipped army causing high casualties and loss of land. Russian soldiers suffered because of the Tsar's poor decision making and financial planning as soldiers had only 2/3 the rifles needed and lacked adequate clothing. This colossal loss of men caused living standards to rapidly submerge due to the disrupted food production in villages and decrease in industrial workers, leaving ... ...

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... the English East India Company felt that the British rule often failed to respect their traditions of religion and caste. When rumors started circulating that the cartridges in their new rifles contained cow and pig fat, the natives became furious. The local Indians thought they were being polluted because a cow was a holy animal and a pig was a very dirty animal. When 85 ... ...

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... in the US during the war) - Farmers grew enough crops to feed the US and all its Allies - planes, bombers, tanks, scout cars and carriers, armored cars, trucks, light vehicles, rifles and side-arms, machine guns, artillery and ammo were produced in factories - production during the war was 75% greater than in peacetime - US financed the war by taxes and war ... ...

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