[Weapons fact 1] An officer of the United States Air Force named William Howard Hughes who had a security clearance and expertise in rocket self-destruct technology vanished in 1983. Authorities feared he had defected to the Soviet Union. In June 2018, however, he was found living in California under an assumed name.
[Weapons fact 2] Three out of four of the longest recorded sniper kills were by Canadians
[Weapons fact 3] The city of Kennesaw, Georgia has a law that all families must own a gun.
[Weapons fact 4] The Mordhau technique in historical swordsmanship was a half-sword technique where you turned your sword into a hammer and obliterated your opponent’s skull with the hilt.
[Weapons fact 5] On May 2, 1957, an Assassin approached Gangster Frank Costello and shot him in the head, first shouting "This is for you, Frank!". Instead of killing Frank, the bullet circled Frank's scalp from ear to ear harmlessly. The Assassin's warning saved his life.
[Weapons fact 6] A fur trapper named Ben Cochrum was attacked by wolves in 1922. After shooting seven wolves and beating four to death with his gun, the stock broke and he succumbed to being "torn to shreds". His body was found surrounded by the remains of the 11 wolves he had killed fighting for his life.
[Weapons fact 7] During World War 2, Nazis rigged skewed-hanging-pictures with explosives in buildings that would be prime candidates for Allies to set up a command post from. When Ally officers would set up a command post, they tended to straighten the pictures, triggering these “anti-officer crooked picture bombs.”
[Weapons fact 8] In 2003, a New Zealand engineer named Bruce Simpson designed a $5,000 cruise missile using off the shelf parts sourced from the Internet. Despite being entirely legal, his project was shut down by the government.
[Weapons fact 9] During the American Civil War, banker J.P. Morgan bought 5,000 rifles from an army arsenal at $3.50 each and then resold them to a field general for $22 each.
[Weapons fact 10] In 2013, a 7-year-old second grader named Josh Welch from Florida was suspended from school for biting a Pop-Tart into the shape of a mountain, which school officials mistook it for a gun.
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