Two national random-digit-dial surveys directed by the HICRC report that most gun use claimed to be self-defensive, in fact, represents likely illegal use of guns in escalating arguments and that guns used in the home are mostly used to intimidate spouses or relatives rather than to respond to crime.

The economist John Lott, in his book More Guns, Less Crime, states that laws which make it easier for law-abiding citizens to get a permit to carry a gun in public places, cause reductions in crime.

The efficacy of gun control legislation at reducing the availability of guns has been challenged by, among others, the testimony of criminals that they do not obey gun control laws, and by the lack of evidence of any efficacy of such laws in reducing violent crime.

The most thorough analysis of the impact of gun control laws, by Kleck, covered 18 major types of gun control and every major type of violent crime or violence ( including suicide ), and found that gun laws generally had no significant effect on violent crime rates or suicide rates.

University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt argues in his paper, Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors that Explain the Decline and Six that Do not, that available data indicate that neither stricter gun control laws nor more liberal concealed carry laws have had any significant effect on the decline in crime in the 1990s.

From the details of the homicides he concluded that the risk of a crime of passion or other domestic dispute ending in a fatal injury was much higher when a gun was readily available ( essentially all the increased risk being in homes where a handgun was kept loaded and unlocked ), compared to a lower rate of fatality in domestic violence not involving a firearm.

Jeff Snyder is a spokesman for the view that gun possession is a civil right, and that therefore arguments about whether gun restrictions reduce or increase violent crime are beside the point: " I am not here engaged in ... recommending ... policy prescriptions on the basis of the promised or probable results crime ... Thus these essays are not fundamentally about guns at all.

Some proponents of private gun ownership argue that an armed citizens ' militia can help deter crime and tyranny, as police are primarily a reactive force whose main loyalty is to the government which pays their wages.

Gun ownership and gun crime was already at a low level, which made these slaughters particularly concerning.

The lowest rate of gun crime was in 2004 / 4 whilst the highest was in 1994.

There was, however, a noticeable temporary increase in gun crime in the years immediately after the ban, though this has since fallen back.

These are, the reduction in gun crime in Northern Ireland ( which led to guns coming from there to the criminal black market in England ); guns ( official issue or confiscated ) acquired by military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan ; and guns coming from Eastern Europe after the fall of the iron curtain.

Being single action weapons, they needed to be cocked for each shot, so the rate of fire was also low, and while a shooter could fan his gun, this expended all his shots even faster and made him even more inaccurate than normal.

Use of two guns was therefore a reasonable compromise, as this allowed one gun to be cocked as the other is being fired, in practical terms doubling the rate of fire and the available number of bullets.

In December 1914, French aviator Roland Garros asked Saulnier to install his synchronization gear on Garros ' Morane-Saulnier Type L. Unfortunately the gas-operated Hotchkiss machine gun he was provided had an erratic rate of fire and it was impossible to synchronize it with a spinning propeller.

Although Brazil has 100 million fewer citizens than the United States, and more restrictive gun laws, there are 25 percent more gun deaths ; other sources indicate that homicide rates due to guns are approximately four times higher than the rate in the United States.

Like the other Nordic countries Sweden has a high rate of gun ownership, due to the popularity of hunting.

Northern Ireland has a very high rate of gun ownership, one of the highest in the world.

In comparison, the Gatling gun offered a rapid and continuous rate of fire without having to manually reload by opening the breech.

The Gatling gun's innovation lay neither in the rotating mechanism ( featured by many revolvers of the day ) nor in the use of multiple barrels to limit overheating ( used by the mitrailleuse gun ); rather, the innovation was the gravity feed reloading mechanism, which allowed unskilled operators to achieve a relatively high rate of fire of 200 rounds per minute.

Compared with earlier weapons such as the Mitrailleuse, which required manual reloading, the Gatling gun was more reliable and easier to operate, and had a lower but continuous rate of fire.

By 1876, the gun had a theoretical rate of fire of 1, 200 rounds per minute, although 400 rounds per minute was more likely in combat.

" The longbow was the machine gun of the Middle Ages: accurate, deadly, possessed of a long range and rapid rate of fire, the flight of its missiles was likened to a storm.

A machine gun is a fully automatic mounted or portable firearm, usually designed to fire bullets in quick succession from an ammunition belt or magazine, typically at a rate of several hundred rounds per minute.

The key characteristic of modern machine guns, their relatively high rate of fire and more importantly machine ( automatic ) loading, came with the Model 1862 Gatling gun, which was adopted by the United States Navy.

The " Maxim gun " used the recoil power of the previously fired bullet to reload rather than being hand-powered, enabling a much higher rate of fire than was possible using earlier designs such as the Nordenfelt and Gatling weapons.

However the high cost of manufacture and low rate of production led to the much simpler, cheaper and faster to make Sten submachine gun.

Firing a contact-detonated shell filled with zinc balls and explosives, the Krupp gun had a range of and blistering rate of fire compared to the French bronze muzzle loading cannon.

Either the computer provides a time base for the horizontal refresh rate through the controller's connector ( as in the Super Scope ), or the gun reads the composite video signal through a T-connector on the A / V cable ( as in the GunCon 2 ).

* The first Sceptre, launched in 1781, was a 64 gun third rate ship of the line.

When shooting at a rate faster than the cylinder can absorb heat from the environment to counter the cooling of the evaporating liquid, the pressure will drop, and the velocity is likely to drop as well in a non-regulated gun.

The main problem with all early mechanical synchronizers was that the rate of fire of the machine gun was dependent on the engine revolutions, and was slowed, especially when the engine was throttled back.

Over time, tensions rose between Arana and Arévalo, peaking when Arana was mysteriously killed in a Guatemala City gun battle on 18 July 1949, ultimately leading to a failed revolt that was put down by troops led by Árbenz.

Over time, tensions rose between Arana and Arévalo, peaking when Arana was mysteriously killed in a Guatemala City gun battle on 18 July 1949, ultimately leading to a failed revolt that was put down by troops led by Árbenz.

This action absorbed the recoil progressively as the internal air pressure rose and, at the end of recoil, generated a strong but decreasing back pressure that returned the gun forward to its original position.

As hanging suicides rose at about the same rate as gun suicides fell, it is possible that there was some substitution of suicide methods.

Among them were a rose, a feather, honey, a whip, scissors, a scalpel, a gun and a single bullet.

“ What I learned was that ... if you leave it up to the audience, they can kill you .” ... “ I felt really violated: they cut up my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away.

When Hastings rose to cross-examine, he took up the gun, pointed it to the ceiling and repeatedly pulled the trigger over and over again.

rose with his gun and went outdoors by my window

When the black Marxists finally rose up in revolt in the autumn of 1915, Pompey was discovered to be the leader of one of the cells in the Army, which included Featherston's gun handlers Nero and Perseus, among others.