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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2017 Using data from 140 interviews with individuals detained in the Los Angeles County Jail system, this article examines what gun offenders know about gun and ammunition regulation in California.
Melissa Barragan +6 more
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Some parameters important for tank design
Vojnotehnički Glasnik, 2001 Some parameters important for the process of tank design were considered in the paper. These parameters are related to the tank layout, armored protection armament, ammunition, basic dimensions, ground pressure and tank mass.
Mladen Pantić
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‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words
History, EarlyView.Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
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OPTIMIZING AMMUNITION MANAGEMENT IN SINGAPORE
, 2023 Ammunition is crucial to Singapore’s defense readiness and national security, especially considering global events like the Russia–Ukraine conflict. Challenges faced by Singapore include low peacetime usage, restricted storage capacities, and significant
Chea, Wei Tien
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Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows that collusion between state actors and violent non‐state actors operates through fluid and competitive relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements.
Eldad J. Levy, Javier Auyero
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Commercial treaties and political transformation in Sulu and Southeast Asian littorals, c. 1830–1840
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article re‐examines an economic treaty concluded between Spain and the Sulu Sultanate in 1836. Analysing the Tausug (Jawi) and Spanish treaty versions alongside archival sources from Spain, the Philippines, and England, it traces the impact of indigenous agency beyond the formal signatories on economic and political transformations ...
Eleonora Poggio +2 more
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LubricantsThe electromagnetic railgun, a novel kinetic energy weapon, has found utility in military operations due to its enhanced safety features and superior precision. This study investigates the enhancement of wear resistance in CuCrZr rails through the plasma
Yang Wang +7 more
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Acta Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.Abstract Purpose Fania (Fanny) Kaplan (1890–1918), who was reportedly visually impaired, confessed to the attempted assassination of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) in 1918 by shooting him with a pistol. The precise nature of her visual loss is unknown and raises doubts about whether she had sufficient visual function to perform the act ...
Stephen G. Schwartz +3 more
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Flyer circulated by employees of the Hastings Naval Ammunition Depot
, 1943 Flyer circulated by employees of the Hastings Naval Ammunition Depot warning about rent ...
Hastings Naval Ammunition Depot
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