Essays on Firearms

Creative Writing: Instant I’ll always remember Instant. That was the nickname the men had tacked ontothe muscled giant that wielded the M60 in my unit. “Instant” was short for”Instant Death.” And I’ll always remember the first time I saw Instant inaction. I was a new Lieutenant assigned to Vietnam. Back then, the Army didn’t try…

 Samuel Colt was born in Hartford Connecticut on July 19, 1814. His father Christopher Colt was a farmer who later moved his family to Connecticut after becoming a business man. His mother Sarah Colt had died from tuberculosis when Samuel was seven years old. His father had remarried two years later to Olivia Sargent. He…

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Around the turn of the century, you could order just about anycustom features from firearms amekrs you wanted; they would bend over backward to follow your every request–at a slight increase in cost,naturally. Today, such requests are turned over to in-house custom shops, ifthey have one, and usually the options offered are engraving and specialfinished…

Gun control generally is considered laws or policies that regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification, and use of firearms. High rates of homicides by way of firearms is the main reason why government officials are pushing for harder gun control measures. When you see news reports of school shootings such as Sandy Hook or…

One of the more intriguing projects an arms writer can undertake iscomparison testing of a classic gun against a near-identical foreigncopy of same, built with or without benefit of license. Interest isespecially keen when one “sibling” is said to be”better” than the other; better fitted, better finished, morereliable, etc. And thus have I, in the…

This is what the people want to do. Guns are helping us achieve justice. That may be true, but would that person still have killed if not for the gun in their hand? Guns are used for hunting, target practice, protection, justice, murders, and destruction. Guns are safe in the hands of the right person….

Americans are faced with an ever-growing problem of violence. Our streets have become a battleground where the elderly are beaten for their social security checks, where terrified women are viciously attacked and raped, where teenage gangster shoot it out for a patch of turf to sell their illegal drugs, and where innocent children are caught…