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Myanmar: Printing the Revolution, Part Two

It Could Happen Here

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The Origins of Weapons of War

Since the dawn of firearms, regular people all over the world have had the same basic idea: maybe if i made myself a gun, the government wouldn't be such a dick to me. Historically, this has had little impact on the willingness of governments to be dix to people. As firearms evolved and became the central weapons of battle, they required more intense tooling and more expensive manufacturing capacity. Nations and peoples without the nohow or ento structure were at a tremendous disadvantage. This trend has never really stopped in warfare. Firearms manufactured outside the arms industry have played a role in every conflict of the modern era. But as you' probably guessed, they have had the greatest influence in the

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