I was thinking how cool it would be to have firearms oriented classes in college. Heck, we learn about everything history wise except firearms. Most of my Political Science and History professors talk about "AK47's" and "M16's" generically, but they don't know what they are. Little do they know of the importance of the AK-47 for the Russians and all of their satelite nations or the importance of the UZI or Galil to early and modern Israel.
My dream class would be: "History of Small Arms since 1914"
from the bolt actions of WWI to the modern rifles from HK, Sig, Steyr, FN, and U.S. manufactuers, covering both rifles and pistols.
Lectures would include background and history on the inventors/manufacturers of the weapons like Mikhail Kalashnikov and John Moses Browning. Fuctional examples of each firearm in question would be brought into class for instruction and there would be a required lab once a week at a local gun range where students were required to try out each weapon. In addition, clips of certain war movies would be shown to teach how the firearms peformed in action.
What better education for the youth of America than this? It would teach them not only important history but skills as well and would likely stop many of the accident related firearms deaths and injuries because of firearms being unknown to most of today's youth.
My dream class would be: "History of Small Arms since 1914"
from the bolt actions of WWI to the modern rifles from HK, Sig, Steyr, FN, and U.S. manufactuers, covering both rifles and pistols.
Lectures would include background and history on the inventors/manufacturers of the weapons like Mikhail Kalashnikov and John Moses Browning. Fuctional examples of each firearm in question would be brought into class for instruction and there would be a required lab once a week at a local gun range where students were required to try out each weapon. In addition, clips of certain war movies would be shown to teach how the firearms peformed in action.
What better education for the youth of America than this? It would teach them not only important history but skills as well and would likely stop many of the accident related firearms deaths and injuries because of firearms being unknown to most of today's youth.