A number of factors—including the fact that the banned weapons and magazines were rarely used to commit murders in this country, the limited availability of data on the weapons, other components of the Crime Control Act of 1994, and State and local initiatives implemented at the same time—posed challenges in discerning the effects of the ban. The ban appears to have had clear short-term effects...

Weapons used in male fighting can be costly to males and are often reported to trade off with other characters such as wings or spermatogenic investment. This study investigated whether increased investment into weapons can generate evolutionary changes in mating strategy for armed males. Male flour beetles, Gnatocerus cornutus, have enlarged mandibles that are used in male-male competition. We...

NATO BATTLEFIELD STRATEGY FOR THE CONVENTIONAL DEFENSE OF CENTRAL EUROPE Patrick Joseph Geary Master of Arts in Political Science University of Richmond 1987 Dr. Arthur B. Gunlicks Thesis Director Although we live in a time in which strategies using nuclear weapons dominate the attention of most defense analysts, there are reasons why more attention should be paid to conventional defense strate...

the history of mankind is intertwined with war. what distinguishes man from other creatures is his ability to dominate and capture the nature; he accomplishes this though using his rationale and making tools which set the ground for production and accumulation of capital. to protect his benefits and accomplish his desire for dominance, man creates weapons which become more developed parallel to...