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A 1/2" drive pistol-grip air impact wrench. An impact wrench (also known as an impactor, impact gun, air wrench, air gun, rattle gun, torque gun, windy gun) is a socket wrench power tool designed to deliver high torque output with minimal exertion by the user, by storing energy in a rotating mass, then delivering it suddenly to the output shaft ...
Hand cannon from the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368). The history of firearms begins in 10th-century China, when tubes containing gunpowder and pellet projectiles were mounted on spears to make portable fire lances, [1] operable by one person. This was later used effectively as a shock weapon in the Siege of De'an in 1132.
The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act ( Pub.L. 103–159, 107 Stat. 1536, enacted November 30, 1993), often referred to as the Brady Act, the Brady Bill, or the Brady Handgun Bill is an Act of the United States Congress that mandated federal background checks on firearm purchasers in the United States. It also imposed a five-day waiting ...
The disparate racial impact of the Sullivan Act and other discretionary New York state gun control regulations is "no accident" according to their brief provided to the Court. Black Guns Matter , A Girl & A Gun Women's Shooting League , and Armed Equality, an LGBT self-defense group, voiced a similar opinion to the Court in their own amicus ...
The light-gas gun is an apparatus for physics experiments. It is a highly specialized gun designed to generate extremely high velocities. It is usually used to study high-speed impact phenomena ( hypervelocity research), such as the formation of impact craters by meteorites or the erosion of materials by micrometeoroids.
Adams M1851 revolver. A double-action only revolver and predecessor to the Beaumont–Adams M1862. Allen & Thurber M1837 revolver pepperbox. With the shortage of pistols in the American Civil War, many soldiers on both sides carried these as a backup arm. Allen & Wheelock M1861 revolver. Beaumont–Adams M1862 revolver.
Physics of firearms. From the viewpoint of physics ( dynamics, to be exact), a firearm, as for most weapons, is a system for delivering maximum destructive energy to the target with minimum delivery of energy on the shooter. [citation needed] The momentum delivered to the target, however, cannot be any more than that (due to recoil) on the shooter.
Impact of presidential election on gun sales remains unclear. ... In December 2023, Americans bought more than 1.7 million firearms, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, ...