• 2005 in Brazil, all firearms are required to be registered with the minimum age for gun ownership being 25. It is generally illegal to carry a gun outside...
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    Gun control, or firearms regulation, is the set of laws or policies that regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification, or use of...
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  • Gun laws and policies, collectively referred to as firearms regulation or gun control, regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification...
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    ownership in the United States. Advocates of gun control support increasingly restrictive regulations on gun ownership, while proponents of gun rights oppose...
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  • Since the 1996 Port Arthur Massacre, Australia has implemented strict gun control measures under the National Firearms Agreement, significantly improving...
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    Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the...
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    finger-gun gestures, after warning him to stop". AP News. Retrieved May 13, 2025. "Hyper-Masculinity and Gun Control in Jair Bolsonaro's Brazil". The Globe...
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    76 mm Oto-Melara gun. The 100 mm has been sold abroad, and is used by the navies of Argentina, Belgium, China, Portugal, Turkey, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Bulgaria...
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    Mount) and later MK49 MOD 1. Gun turret Sentry gun Close-in weapon system DOLASIŃSKI, Jan F. (2020-09-30). "Remote Controlled Weapon Stations – Development...
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    particularly high rates of gun violence and homicides. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Brazil had an intentional homicide...
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    control with an off-mount electro-optical director (EOD). The gun and the EOD can be controlled from a remote operator console elsewhere on the ship. The...
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    Carolyn McCarthy (category American gun control activists)
    and her son was wounded in the 1993 Long Island Rail Road shooting. She became an advocate for gun control legislation, and in 1996, she was elected to...
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    conditions. The gun has the ability to be integrated with tactical and fire control radars to give more flexibility in its deployment. The guns have been equipped...
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    Dreadnought (redirect from All-big-gun)
    (305 mm) guns had longer range and fired heavier shells than a gun of 10-or-9.2-inch (254 or 234 mm) calibre. Another possible advantage was fire control; at...
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    or the politics of gun control, digitally-produced metal firearms are more associated with commercial manufacturing or experiments in traditional firearms...
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    Luty (19 October 1964 – 8 April 2011) was an English activist opposing gun control, who was notable for the production of homemade firearms and manuals...
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    M1918 Browning automatic rifle (category .30-06 Springfield machine guns)
    Department as either a rifle or a machine gun. The US Army, in practice, used the BAR as a light machine gun, often fired from a bipod (introduced on models...
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    MAC-10 (redirect from M10 submachine gun)
    abates the noise created but makes it easier to control on full automatic (although it also makes the gun far less compact and concealable). Military Armament...
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    The MP 18 is a German submachine gun designed and manufactured by Bergmann Waffenfabrik. Introduced into service in 1918 by the German Army during World...
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    submachine gun (also known as the "Tommy gun", "Chicago typewriter", or "trench broom") is a blowback-operated, selective-fire submachine gun, invented...
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    90 mm gun M1/M2/M3 was an American heavy anti-aircraft and anti-tank gun, playing a role similar to the German 8.8cm Flak 18. It had a 3.5 in (90 mm)...
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  • guns. In 2004, the Brazilian government implemented a six-month national gun buyback program that met its stated objective of collecting 80,000 guns in...
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    Especially in the United States, school shootings have sparked a political debate over gun violence, zero tolerance policies, gun rights and gun control. According...
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    organization which leads demonstrations in support of gun control legislation. The first demonstration took place in Washington, D.C., on March 24, 2018,...
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    feeding, if the gun ever started an uncontrollable cycle of cooking off. Gunners were trained to manage the barrel heat by firing in controlled bursts of three...
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    2022. Guns in the United Kingdom — Firearms, gun law and gun control. "Guns in America, By The Numbers". National Public Radio. 5 January 2016. "Gun Control...
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    of the world's 875 million guns are civilian controlled.[better source needed] Roughly half of these guns (48 percent) are in the United States, which has...
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    MG 42 (redirect from M53 machine gun)
    German: Maschinengewehr 42, or "machine gun 42") is a German recoil-operated air-cooled general-purpose machine gun used extensively by the Wehrmacht and...
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    prohibited since April 1, 2008 (gun control law: Anlage 2, Abschnitt 1, Nr. 1.3.6. WaffG). However Taser devices are in use by police SWAT teams, Spezialeinsatzkommando...
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    smaller version of the 127 mm Vulcano) There were evolutions in the gun's fire control systems as well. The early versions (Compatto) utilised radars...
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