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  2. Tarrant County approves sheriff office’s sale of forfeited ...

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    In a party line vote Wednesday, the Tarrant County Commissioners Court approved the sale of 21 forfeited firearms by the sheriff’s office to gun distributors in Texas and Arizona.

  3. Gallery gun - Wikipedia

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    Gallery gun. A gallery gun, Flobert gun, parlor gun or saloon gun is a type of firearm designed for recreational indoor target shooting. [1] [2] These guns were developed in 1845, when French inventor Louis-Nicolas Flobert created the first rimfire metallic cartridge by modifying a percussion cap to hold a small lead bullet. In the 19th century ...

  4. National Firearms Museum - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .nramuseum .org. The NRA National Firearms Museum is a museum located at the NRA Headquarters Building in Fairfax County, Virginia. Approximated 2,500 guns are displayed in 15,000 square feet. The NRA National Firearms Museum is operated by the Museums Division of the National Rifle Association of America (NRA), with partial ...

  5. Gallery Rifle Shooting - Wikipedia

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    Gallery rifle shooting. Gallery rifle shooting or gallery rifle and pistol shooting is a popular shooting sport throughout the world. In countries such as the UK, Ireland, Germany, South Africa and Australia national and international competitions are regularly undertaken. The discipline commonly uses rifles shot at short and medium distances ...

  6. Colt Lightning rifle - Wikipedia

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    The small-frame Lightning (also referred to as "Second Model Colt Lightning" [4]) was the first rimfire rifle made by Colt and was manufactured between 1887 and 1904 as a plinking and gallery gun. [4] [5] Colt records indicate 89,912 were made, in .22 Short and .22 Long. [4] Barrel length was 24 in (61 cm) and the rifles had a blued finish ...

  7. GunBroker.com - Wikipedia

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    Established in 1999, GunBroker.com is one of the world's largest online marketplace for firearms. GunBroker.com was founded by Steven F. Urvan after eBay started restricting gun sales. Urvan ran the company until it was acquired by Ammo, Inc in 2021. At the closing of merger, it had $60 million in revenue and 6 million registered users.

  8. How Do Melissa McCarthy and Barbra Streisand Know Each Other?

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    2023. During an interview with Entertainment Weekly in June 2023, McCarthy recalled the first time she met Streisand. “I thought she would be like, ‘I’m Barbra Streisand,’” McCarthy said ...

  9. Public opinion on gun control in the United States - Wikipedia

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    background checks on all gun sales, by a net 80 percentage points; creation of a national database with information about each gun sale, by a net 57 points; banning of assault-style weapons, by a net 42 points; closing the gun show loophole, by a net 70 points; requiring gun owners to store their guns in a safe storage unit, by a net 62 points.