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Many people throughout time have had a fascination with guns, and especially machine guns. In every action book you read or, any action movie you watch, you can always count on someone being shot at or being blown up. Guns come in many shape and sizes and can hold one bullet, up to hundreds, and some of the bigger military hardware can shoot thousands. There have been huge developments in the manufacturing of guns and the automatic rifle (machine gun) is definitely no exception.

Many firearms can shoot a single shot only, and after firing the gun it must be re-cocked and reloaded manually, the single barreled shotgun is a good example. A repeating firearm (or repeater) is a gun that can be loaded with multiple shells, and when manually re-cocked, it moves another bullet into the chamber, making it ready to fire again, with the advantage being you don’t have to reload every time. A semi-automatic firearm is one that not only reloads, but also re-cocks on its own and fires a bullet as fast as you can pull the trigger, whereas a fully automatic (machine gun) firearm does the same thing, but keeps on firing bullets for as long as you hold the trigger, releasing a stream of projectiles that can do some serious damage! Nowadays the new automatic weapons have a selector switch allowing you to choose between semi-automatic and fully automatic.

In the 19th century one of the first “rapid firing” firearms was called the Gatlin gun and it changed the face of war forever. It had a large magazine (the ammunition holder) of bullets, and the operator used a crank that when turned it would activate the firing mechanism, so basically the faster they turned the crank, the quicker the bullets fired. Eventually through modifications the firing mechanisms were perfected and made much smaller allowing a trigger to release the hammer which in turn fires the bullet.

The Browning Rifle was a popular automatic weapon and used extensively by the U.S military during the early period of the 20th century. It was reliable, easy to maintain and the weight was manageable. It was also around this time that the submachine gun was introduced. It is also a rapid firing machine gun but with some major differences. One of the main differences is that it uses the same size bullet that a handgun uses, and because of this, the recoil (or shock) is far less than many other automatic weapons.

Now unfortunately, because they fire this type of this ammunition the long-range use is limited, but for close combat, even on fully automatic (with practice), it can be fairly controllable. They are extremely lightweight and some models are just a bit bigger than a handgun, making them easier to conceal than many other fully automatic firearms. Because they are simple and inexpensive to build many military personal are armed with this type of weapon.

This is just a small amount of information about guns and automatic firearms. Safety is always the primary concern when handling any type of weapon, and the more you learn about what you are doing the safer you will be.

Now weapons like this come into two common categories one being the weapon of crime and the other being the weapon of war. To find out some interesting facts about World War 2, check this out.

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During the 16th century, a French soothsayer, astrologer and physician named Nostradamus, predicted the past 2 World Wars, the coming of the Antichrist and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Nostradamus included World War 3 in his predictions citing the year that ends with seven as the beginning of doomsday.

Nostradamus was a renowned physician and an astrologer who was born in 1503 at St. Remi, France. As a physician, Nostradamus used new methods to treat patients who were afflicted with bubonic plague. He was able to cure people who were extremely ill through which he was recognized as a gifted healer.

He had shown deep interest in pagan ways of divination and astronomy by studying the art of magic from ancient texts of Egyptian and Alexandrian magic. With the knowledge he acquired from these sources, he became a well-known soothsayer and started making predictions of the future.

His prophecies were in the form of short poems and each poem comprised of four lines called quatrain. The experts who interpreted his predictions in his book titled Centuries stated that Nostradamus had predicted accurately the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the rise of Hitler’s power in Germany, the French Revolution and many other important events.

Nostradamus had foreseen and predicted World War 3 in his quatrains from the Century 2. The scholars of Nostradamus interpreted these quatrains through the incidents and events related to the current century. They interpreted the word “Mabus” which Nostradamus used in one of his quatrains, as President Bush who would be assassinated before his term expired.

He also predicted that a comet would likely cross the skies in the next few years. This prediction came true when a comet named Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann3 became near the earth and close to the sun on June 6, 2006. The comet was seen when Hitler rose to power in 1930.

Many incidents have already taken place related to quatrains on Nostradamus’ prediction about World War 3 in which he mentioned some disasters that are bound to happen between the 20th and 21st century that are signs of the imminent war.
The attack on the World Trade Center in New York was indicated on the quatrains as well as the holy war that would be waged by the anti-Christ. The use of nuclear weapons in World War 3 was specifically pinpointed in his prediction as the instrument of world destruction.

After the war, it was clearly revealed that peace would be regained
And a new world will rise. Numerologists are now trying to discover which last digit 7 Nostradamus was referring to in his prediction since the year 2007 has passed. Could it be 2070 then, or just a myth?

Though there may have been lapses in Nostradamus’ predictions, the one pertaining to World War 3 may eventually exist. Many probabilities may lead to occurrence of this prediction since the world is now ruled by greed of power, hatred, jealousy, extreme poverty and greediness. Nostradamus’ prediction on this should be more interpreted as a stern warning to control rather than just ignore it.

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