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With all the new gun introductions every year at SHOT, companies keep coming up with sweeter and more user-friendly gun safes.

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Known as the Cadet Battery, the quartet of scaled-down but functional field artillery at the Virginia Military Institute is back and better than ever.

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"We've got 120 grains of black powder..." says backyard ordnance maker Royal Nonesuch with a wince as he steadies his homemade hand cannon towards a stack of milk jugs.

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Seattle's KCPQ, a Washington area Fox affiliate, went epic when a local TV personality was asked by Google to draw a cannon.

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The GunVault company has a line of electronically accessed safes for personal use. This trial focuses on the MiniVault biometric model called GVB 1000.

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Will 38 inches of ballistics gel and a dozen sheets of plywood stop a 1.2-pound lead projectile a fired from a mini Parrot gun? Heck, let's find out.

The post Just what will a 37mm black powder cannon do, ballistically speaking? (VIDEO) appeared first on Guns.com.

Micah Kaminski discusses shooting the ashes of his father, Francis Henry "Hank" Kaminski Jr., out of a cannon at the Knob Creek Range.

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Apparently the discovery of a cannon in a passenger's checked baggage may be a first for the TSA and that's also a big no no.

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ATK announced it has international contracts totaling $220 million from U.S. allies for medium-caliber cannons and aftermarket support to help integrate the weapons and maintain them.

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The Slow Mo Guys, with the help of Captain Morgan White, destroyed a tower of drinks with a cannonball. Notice the super cool MacGyver fuse lighter too. For more Slow Mo action check out their YouTube homepage. [ Youtube ]

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Teddy Roosevelt, considered by many to be the father of the US fleets of the 20th century, once said, 'Speak softly, but carry a big stick'. For over 50 years, the 16-inch/50 caliber Mark 7 cannons of the US Navy's Iowa class battleships were the country's biggest sticks.

The post Save the Navy’s Mark 7 16-inch Cannons: Big sticks speak loudly (VIDEOS) appeared first on Guns.com.