93 Lethal Facts About Guns You Should Know If You Handle One

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76Kennesaw city's law

Kennesaw city's law

The city of Kennesaw, Georgia has a law that all families must own a gun.


77. Bhanbhagta Gurung saved his pinned unit from a sniper with his rifle. Gurung didn't wait for orders and rushed to the nearest foxhole taking out the enemies with grenades, his bayonet, and Kukri; Taking 5 enemy positions single-handed, against light machine guns.


78. Men in India receive a free gun license if they get a vasectomy


79. At the start of WWI, Italy developed the Villar Perosa Double Machine Gun that could fire 1200-1500 rounds per minute, but they were unable to figure out a practical use for it until the end of the war.


80. Genghis Khan's may have killed as many people with swords and arrows as WWII did with tanks, guns, and the nuclear bomb


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81Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden

Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden

Mitchel Johnson and Andrew Golden spent less than a decade in prison after murdering four students and a teacher. Despite both men seeking out guns soon after being released, their current whereabouts and identities are unknown.


82. In Switzerland every male must attend military training and is required to keep his weapon afterward, giving the country one of the highest gun ownership rates in the world.


83. Boxing trainer Teddy Atlas put a gun to 15 Year Old Mike Tyson's head and threatened to kill him after Tyson groped Teddy's 12-Year-Old relative.


84. Robert Erskine Childers, an Irish Nationalist who smuggled guns into Ireland during their civil war and was sentenced to death, shook hands with the firing squad members and told them when they were about to shoot "Take a step or two forward, lads. It will be easier that way."


85. Dip Prasad Pun, a Gurkha soldier, single-handedly fought off at least a dozen Taliban assaulting him. He fired more than 400 rounds, launched 17 grenades, detonated a mine, and used his tripod as a weapon when his gun failed.


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86Gun silencer

Gun silencer

The OSS director once showcased the then newly invented gun silencer to president Franklin D. Roosevelt by shooting 10 rounds at a sandbag in the oval office without Roosevelt noticing, and then handing him the smoking gun.


87. Two 6-year olds were suspended from school for playing cops and robbers and forming their fingers into an imaginary gun


88. There is a gang dubbed the "The Pink Panthers" who have stolen 100's millions of dollars from banks and jewelers in crazy fashion (dressed in drag with prosthetics, fleeing in speed boats) oh, and they broke their leader out of prison using machine gun fire and a rope ladder


89. Marvin Gaye gave his father the gun that killed him as a Christmas gift


90. The world's smallest, fully functioning gun (SwissMiniGun C1ST) can fit in the palm of your hand.


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91Battle of Athens

Battle of Athens

In 1946 citizens ended corruption in their small Tennessee town by stealing guns from a National Guard armory, surrounding 50 cops in the town jail, and wounding dozens of officers with bullets and dynamite.


92. British paratrooper Joshua Leavey took on Taliban fighters while running through heavy machine gun fire multiple times in order to rescue an injured US Marine Captain.


93. During the WWII, Khanpasha Nuradilov a Chechen native was credited with over 920 confirmed kills, taking 12 prisoners, and capturing nine machine guns.

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