When the violent right-wing Lapua Movement asked him to become their leader, he refused and was instead subjected to their death threats.

Iisakki Vihtori Kosola ( 10 July 1884 – 14 December 1936 ) was the leader of the Finnish right-wing radical Lapua Movement.

He made a speech at the first meeting of the anti-communist Lapua Movement as it was organized in 1929, and was chosen as its leader as the movement radicalized in the following year.

* KOSOLA, Vihtori Iisakki ( 1884 – 1936 ) Leader of the Lapua Movement.

After the war Kosola led the Lapua White Guard.

He took part of the abortive Mäntsälä Rebellion of 1932 that ended with the dissolution and banning of the Lapua Movement and the brief imprisonment of Kosola.

Kosola was chosen as president of the Lapua Movement's successor, the Patriotic People's Movement, but as the Movement became more political, Kosola had less time to participate in its affairs in Helsinki.

Svinhufvud was elected President in 1931, and appointed Mannerheim as Chairman of the Defence Council, not least of all as an answer to the Lapua Movement's fear of having fought the Civil War in vain.

In February 1932 there was a so-called Mäntsälä Rebellion, when the Suojeluskunta-Militia and the Lapua Movement demanded the Cabinet's resignation.

Anneli Tuulikki Jäätteenmäki, Master of Laws ( born 11 February 1955 in Lapua ) was the first female Prime Minister of Finland, in office from 17 April 2003 to 24 June 2003.

In 1930, after the kidnapping of progressive president Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, the Agrarian League broke off all its ties to the movement and got a new political enemy in the countryside-The Patriotic People's Movement ( IKL ), which was founded after the Lapua Movement was outlawed.

Because of his pacifist conviction, in the atmosphere of the Militaristic thirties he was deemed as guilty of high treason, and the Lapua movement harassed him relentlessly.

The Lapua Movement (), was a Finnish radical nationalist and anti-communist political movement founded in and named after the town of Lapua.

Many politicians, and also high military officers, were initially sympathetic with the Lapua Movement, as anti-communism was the norm in the educated classes after the Civil War.

Nevertheless, a few months later the Lapua Movement was capable of not only demanding " their man " appointed President of Finland by the Collegium of Electors, which only weeks before had been chosen in nation-wide voting, but a sufficient number of the electors followed the Lapua Movement's request, disregarding the intentions they had declared during the election campaign.

In February 1932 a Social Democrat meeting in Mäntsälä was violently interrupted by armed Lapua activists.

After a trial, the Lapua Movement was banned on November 21, 1932.

Ironically, the banning was done under the Protection of the Republic Act, which originally was dictated by the Lapua Movement.

The IKL was founded at a conference on 5 June 1932 as a continuation of the Lapua Movement.

The Mäntsälä rebellion () was a failed coup attempt by the Lapua Movement to overthrow the Finnish government.

During the spring the Lapua movement was disbanded.

The current. 338 Lapua Magnum cartridge was developed as a joint venture between the Finnish rifle manufacturer SAKO and the British rifle manufacturer Accuracy International and the Finnish ammunition manufacturer Lapua.

The result was the. 338 Lapua Magnum cartridge which was registered with C. I. P.

In 1929, Mannerheim refused the right-wing radicals ' plea to become a de facto military dictator, although he did express some support for the right-wing Lapua Movement ( Screen, 2000 ).

In 1934 he became chairman for the Conservative Kokoomus party, as a champion of democracy, and achieved the party's rehabilitation after its suspicious closeness to the Lapua movement and the failed coup d ' état, the Mäntsälä Rebellion.

Beside caretaker cabinets and temporary prime ministers appointed due to the death or disease of the predecessor, Juho Heikki Vennola headed a Cabinet which lasted only for a little more than a month February-March 1931, in connection with the Lapua Movement's vociferous anti-democratic demands for influence on the presidential election.

The Patriotic Electoral Alliance favoured continuing the search for suspected Communists-the Communist Party and its affiliated organizations in the spirit of the Lapua Movement.

Two days later the cabinet ordered the leaders of the Lapua movement arrested using the Protection of the Republic Act which the movement itself had urged for a year before.

Examples include proposed importation bans on calibres used for long range sniping such as the. 50 BMG,. 416 Barrett and. 338 Lapua Magnum ; large capacity magazines ; stocks and parts for various categories of firearms ; and controls affecting participants in international competitions.

The. 338 Lapua Magnum ( 8. 6x70mm or 8. 58x70mm ) is a specialized rimless bottlenecked centerfire cartridge developed for military long-range sniper rifles.

conforming British military issue overpressure. 338 Lapua Magnum cartridges with a overall length, loaded with LockBase B408 very-low-drag bullets were used in November 2009 by British sniper Corporal of Horse ( CoH ) Craig Harrison to establish a new record for the longest confirmed sniper kill in combat, at a range of.

The. 338 Lapua Magnum is capable of taking down any game animal, though its suitability for some dangerous game ( Cape buffalo, hippopotamus, white rhinoceros and elephant ) is arguable, unless accompanied by a larger " backup " caliber: " There is a huge difference between calibers that will kill an elephant and those that can be relied upon to stop one.

Pressed by military deadlines RAI looked for another case producer and contacted Lapua of Finland in 1984.

Due to its growing civilian popularity, several high quality tactical and match ( semi ) custom bolt actions designed for the. 338 Lapua Magnum are becoming available.

Extremely thick-walled brass results in a 7. 40 ml ( 114 grains H < sub > 2 </ sub > O ) cartridge case capacity for the. 338 Lapua Magnum.

ruling for the. 300 Lapua Magnum cartridge, which is based on the same case, was not accordingly changed.

For a typical. 338 Lapua Magnum high end factory military sniper rifle like the Sako TRG-42 with a long 305 mm ( 1 in 12 inch ) rifling twist rate barrel at sea level, is considered to be the maximum shooting distance for man sized targets.

Due to the lower practically possible muzzle velocities for a relative heavy bullet like the 19. 44 g ( 300 gr ) Lapua Scenar GB528 VLD bullet it gains about extra supersonic range under International Standard Atmosphere sea level conditions ( air density ρ = 1. 225 kg / m < sup > 3 </ sup >) at a muzzle velocity of 837 m / s ( 2750 ft / s ) when compared to the standard 16. 2 g ( 250 gr ) Lapua Scenar GB488 VLD at a muzzle velocity of 915 m / s ( 3002 ft / s ).

cone-angle for the. 338 Lapua Magnum is 6 °) cone area finished first and second at several long range competitions.

The rifling twist rate for the. 343 Lapua Magnum LM-107 wildcat cartridge was chosen at 180 mm ( 1: 7 inch ), Ø lands

The commercially successful. 338 Lapua Magnum cartridge has functioned as the parent case for the. 300 Lapua Magnum, which is essentially a necked-down version of the. 338 Lapua Magnum.