Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cost $25,000 to kill one soldier in the World War. Krupp supplied many a gun with which Belgian and Russian soldiers slaughtered German troops at the outbreak of the War. Though forbidden by the Versailles Treaty from making armaments, this famed German company is today rearming Germany and doing a good-sized munitions export business to the Far East and South America...
...Bank of France and its affiliates, with the munitions and gun-works in Japan and Czechoslovakia...
...that he will not have to admit his own daughter free; he shows the reader a stupid man, a crooked man, a bully, and a sorry figure. But the other side of the picture is between the covers: Bon blazes out his courage as he takes bullets from the gun of an enraged invader of the offices of the Post; the strange man's one apparent show of feeling is developed subtly and delicately, superbly, too. But it is not because both sides are given that I say the book is close to truth; it is because Bonfils is shown...
Although efforts and laws have been made to effect such restrictions, this rather obvious method of making the machine gun robbery more difficult has never successfully been followed up. In spite of the smuggling of such weapons that is bound to result, a concerted drive by government and state officials on checking up sales, licensing, and running down these arms, would not, at this point, be untimely...
Technically the gun is described as being a .22 calibre rifle butt, to which is attached a one-inch tube to serve as the barrel. The elevating and traversing mechanisms are worked by geared hand wheels, and have a movable field of 45 degrees each. The blank cartridges are black powder, and the gun is muzzle loading...