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38,000 metres (42,000 yd) (AP) Schwerer Gustav (English: Heavy Gustav) was a German 80-centimetre (31.5 in) railway gun. It was developed in the late 1930s by Krupp in Rügenwalde as siege artillery for the explicit purpose of destroying the main forts of the French Maginot Line, the strongest fortifications in existence at the time.
- 3.6 m (11 ft 10 in)
- 820 m/s (2,700 ft/s)
- 48 km (30 mi)
- 4,800 kg (10,600 lb)
Oct 28, 2022 · In Chicago, handguns turned into high-capacity machine guns fuel deadly violence. Chicago police officers arrive at the scene of a May 19 mass shooting outside a McDonald's restaurant. Kimberly Saunders was grabbing a gyro at a restaurant just blocks from the upscale Magnificent Mile commercial district near downtown Chicago in May when she ...
Oct 11, 2024 · In Chicago, handguns easily turned into high-capacity machine guns fuel growing violence. How high-capacity magazines for weapons have become a mass-market item. One in seven shooting victims died ...
Oct 28, 2022 · Two of the victims died. The shooting was related to a fight 20 minutes earlier, police said. The firearm used was a Glock 19 handgun that had been converted to an illegal high-capacity machine ...
- Frank Main
Mar 23, 2023 · It was definitely excessive. The Big Sandy Shoot, “the largest machine-gun shoot in the world . . . a uniquely American event,” is held two weekends a year, in March and October, outside ...
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Oct 28, 2022 · A Chicago police officer examines a Glock handgun found May 4 in the 8200 block of South Halsted Street where a 20-year-old man was shot and wounded. According to police records, the gun was ...
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Oct 28, 2022 · In a case earlier this year, a man holding a pistol-turned-machine gun opened fire a little past 10:30 p.m. May 19 on a crowd outside the McDonald’s on Chicago Avenue at State Street, killing ...
