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2006 — Responsibility for the Canadian Firearms Program was transferred from the Ministry of Public Safety to the RCMP.
2013 — California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced that microstamping had cleared all technological and patenting hurdles (orly?) and would be required on newly sold semiautomatics, effective immediately.
Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants with lifelong histories of crime, substance abuse, psychopathology, mental retardation and/or irrational violence against those around them, as well as other hazardous behavior, e.g., automobile and gun accidents." - Don B. Kates, writing on statistical patterns in gun crime
The term Doglock refers to the lock that superseded the true flintlock in both rifles and pistols in the 17th century. Commonly used throughout Europe in the 1600's, it gained popular favor in the British and Dutch military.
Much like the later flintlock devices it contained the flint, frizzen, and pan, yet had an external catch as a half cock safety, known as the "dog". This added safety to the firearm in that it would not accidentally go off "half-cocked". This fell out of favor with the British before 1720. Later flintlocks would contain no such catch.[1]
References
↑Blackmore, Howard L. British Military Firearms, 1650-1850. Greenhill Pr, 1994.
