[Weapons fact 1] Benito Mussolini, at age 10, got expelled for stabbing a classmate in the butt.
[Weapons fact 2] Point-blank range does not mean extremely close range. It means any distance over which a certain firearm can hit a target without the need to compensate for bullet drop.
[Weapons fact 3] During World War 1, the Germans thought that the shotgun was too inhumane a weapon, and lodged a complaint against the US.
[Weapons fact 4] Sweden ran a clandestine nuclear weapons program under the guise of civilian defense research between 1945 to 1972
[Weapons fact 5] Hiram Maxim, the inventor of the fully automatic machine gun, once received the advice " If you want to make a pile of money, invent something that will enable these Europeans to cut each others` throats with greater facility."
[Weapons fact 6] Daniel "Chappie" James Jr., the first African-American to reach the rank of four-star general, had an Old West-style standoff with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who complied and pulled back after James demanded him to move his hand away from his gun.
[Weapons fact 7] During the Cuban missile crisis, John F. Kennedy said: “Why does he put these in there, though? … It’s just as if we suddenly began to put a major number of MRBMs (Medium-range ballistic missile) in Turkey. Now that’d be goddamned dangerous, I would think.” His advisor immediately pointed out: “Well we did it, Mr. President.”
[Weapons fact 8] Native Americans started the practice of reloading bullet cartridges during the Indian Wars. US military authorities found out and ordered all US soldiers to stomp on their fires cartridges after being fired. Frontiersmen took advantage of this and sold overpriced shells to the natives.
[Weapons fact 9] Between 1964 and 1973, USA dropped 260 million bombs in Laos, a country smaller than Michigan. The number of bombs dropped there is larger than bombs dropped on Europe during the whole of World War 2.
[Weapons fact 10] The Ghost Chili was investigated by India as a nonlethal way to flush out terrorists from their hideouts and to control rioters. It was called a "Chili Grenade."
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