Military
BATFE Requests “Emergency†Authority To Track Semi-Automatic Rifle Sales
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has proposed that it be given emergency authority for six months, beginning January 5, to require about 8,500 firearms dealers along the border with Mexico “to alert authorities when they sell within five consecutive business days two or more semiautomatic rifles greater than .22 caliber with detachable…
Read MoreNavy’s Mach 8 Railgun
There wasn’t much left of the 23-pound bullet, just a scalded piece of squat metal. That’s what happens when an enormous electromagnetic gun sends its ammo rocketing 5,500 feet in a single second. The gun that fired the bullet is the Navy’s experimental railgun. The gun has no moving parts or propellants — just a…
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Read MoreDecember 7, 1941
In memory of the 2,403 Americans who lost their lives on that Day of Infamy.
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