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This Is What Gun Ownership Looks Like in America

In early 2013, on a five-day assignment for the German magazine Stern, photographer Charles Ommanney traveled around the United States photographing Americans with their guns.
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The British-born Ommanney was surprised by the ease at which the gun owners in America felt comfortable being photographed for this project. “I can’t imagine going around England and knocking on someone’s door and saying ‘I’d like to photograph you with your shotgun,’ ” Ommanney said. “They would look at me like I was a lunatic. But for these people, there was nothing in any shape or form abnormal about me wanting to do this; [their guns were] a perfectly normal extension of their lives.”
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From an elderly woman who kept a gun because her mother had been murdered to a family with two young girls who were well-versed at stripping down an M16 assault rifle, Ommanney’s series is a striking cross-section of gun ownership in America.

The photographs are huge.

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That magazine is the size of a show box, holy crap!
You can tell by the guy's shirt he's a competition shooter.

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400 meters (435yards) with a 9mm handgun!

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30 Caliber Magazine clip.....get it?

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The eggs are pretty cool and the bunnies partially liquify.



More Easter massacre

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Video: Shooting 2500 Yards 1.43 miles 2.3km!!

...at that distance the bullet flight time is almost 4.5 seconds!

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American Children Pose with their Guns

An-Sofie Kesteleyn series "My First Rifle"

Kesteleyn lives in Amsterdam but visited the United States to meet gun owners about a month after reading a news story about a 5-year-old boy in Kentucky who killed his 2-year-old sister with his practice rifle. She was taken aback by the death, which was deemed an accident. Not only because it was a tragic story, but also because in the Netherlands, few people if any own guns and it was unheard of to give a 5-year-old his own firearm.
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“I really wanted to know what parents and kids thought about having the guns,” she says. “For me it was hard to understand because we don’t have a gun culture at all. The only people with guns [in the Netherlands] are the police.”
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Kesteleyn says that the majority of parents give their kids guns to educate them and ensure they know how to properly use a firearm when they get older. At the same time, she never could shake how odd she felt standing next to a child with a gun.

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Gewehr 88

A late 19th-century German bolt action rifle, adopted in 1888. AKA Model 1888 Commission Rifle
Cartridge M/88, 7.92×57mm Mauser from Gewehr 88/05 onwards
Action bolt-action
Feed system 5 round clip in a permanent external magazine

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Enouy 48-Shooter a blackpowder percussion revolver patented in 1855.

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8 cylinders of 6. Big deal.

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Ruger Mini-14



A small, lightweight semi-automatic carbine manufactured by the U.S. firearms company Sturm, Ruger.
Designed 1967/ Produced 1973 to present
10 production versions

By Shawn Skipper
May 23, 2014

8. The model’s name, Mini-14, is derived from the military’s M14 rifle. While developing the Mini-14, Ruger used the M14 as a base model for the new rifle—all the while incorporating a number of cost-saving alterations and innovations.

7. That said, the Mini-14 doesn’t share quite as much in common with the M14 as its name might suggest. Aside from shooting .223 Rem./5.56x44mm NATO rather than .308 Win./7.62x51mm NATO, the rifle uses a Garand style rotating bolt and simplified gas system.

6. It’s said Bill Ruger felt that, with better timing, the Mini-14 would have been the military’s choice as a successor to the M14. As we all know, history favored the AR-15 design that Colt had purchased from ArmaLite, instead, and the M16 was born.

5. The Ruger Mini Thirty, an evolution of the Mini-14, developed its own following upon its introduction in 1987. Yes, the Mini Thirty’s 7.62x39 mm chambering made it popular with owners of the venerable AK-47 build, but it made an impact on hunters, too—the cartridge’s ballistics were deemed more suitable for deer and similar game than the Mini-14’s .223 Rem.

4. The infamous 1986 FBI Miami shootout nearly single-handedly spurred the FBI and police departments around the country to begin carrying more powerful handguns. Why? During the fight, bank robber Michael Lee Platt did most of the regrettable incident’s damage while armed with his Mini-14, which possessed significantly more firepower than anything the responding law enforcement officials had brought with them.

3. At one point, Ruger began developing versions of the Mini-14 that were to be chambered in .308 Win. and .243 Win. Unfortunately, mechanical and production issues kept the rifles from ever being produced.

2. Like most of history’s more famous firearms, the Mini-14 has made its rounds in Hollywood. Versions of the rifle have popped up on screens large and small throughout the years, though the Mini-14’s most notable appearances probably came on “The A-Team.” During the show’s run, "Hannibal" Smith, Templeton "Faceman" Peck, "Howling Mad" Murdock and "B.A." Baracus were all seen with at least one prop variant of the rifle. What beats Mr. T and a Mini-14? That's a rhetorical question, mind you.

1. It’s possible, albeit difficult, to find a Ruger Mini-14 chambered in the .222 Remington cartridge. In an attempt to broaden its marketplace, Ruger once produced a number of rifles in .222 Rem. for sale in countries that prohibit civilian ownership of firearms that chamber military cartridges. The practice is a thing of the past, making Mini-14’s chambered in .222 Rem. one of the model’s rarest variants.

Has been in use by USA, Australia, Bermuda, France, Honduras, Hong Kong, and UK military and law enforcement.