Other important firearms include the musket, the shotgun, the revolver, the repeating carbine and the machine gun.

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And as for Russia, like Iran, which responded to Obama's latest ode to the mullahs by opening a nuclear fuel plant and announcing it has 7, 000 advanced centrifuges in operation, so Moscow reacted to Obama's fig leaf with a machine gun, announcing its refusal to support sanctions against North Korea and repeating its false claim that Iran's nuclear program is nonaggressive.

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The president said his package of gun measures was intended to save young lives and that "they deserve a vote, " repeating the phrase a few times as he did in Tuesday's address at the Capitol.

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