Risk Management for 4-H Youth Development Work: Shooting Sports State Plan and Program Guidelines by Gerald (Jerry) Culen, Dale Pracht, Paula Davis, Stefanie Prevatt, Janet Psikogios

“…It discusses the 4-H Shooting Sports Program, which teaches young people the safe and responsible use of firearms, principles of archery, and hunting basics. …”
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Risk Management for 4-H Youth Development Work: Shooting Sports State Plan and Program Guidelines by Gerald (Jerry) Culen, Dale Pracht, Paula Davis, Stefanie Prevatt, Janet Psikogios

“…It discusses the 4-H Shooting Sports Program, which teaches young people the safe and responsible use of firearms, principles of archery, and hunting basics. …”
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Sacral buildings suitable for defense purposes and their ensembles in Vilnius in the 14th-18th centuries by Linas Girlevičius

“…A few of those buildings still have architectural fragments proving that they were meant to be defended with firearms. Thus, we can conclude that quite a number of the sacral monuments of Vilnius were ready to be used for defense purposes during battles.  …”
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Psychosocial risks within prison service by Giuseppe Ferrari

“…To do so, we developed the police stress risk questionnaire–prison (PSrQ–p), a questionnaire for psychosocial risk assessment at workplace, consisting of 22 items that investigated five macro dimensions: isolation, social image, firearms license, variety of work and roles/responsibilities. …”
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Objects and subjects of registration and permit-licensing procedures in the activities of the National Police by О. А. Bud

“… • A list of objects of registration and permit-licensing procedures in the activities of the National Police has been created: 1) ensuring the implementation of operations with all objects covered by the permit system (firearms, cold weapons, pneumatic weapons, ammunition for them and their components, explosive materials, potent poisonous substances of safety class I–II, pathogens of infectious diseases I–II groups of pathogenicity and toxins), the functioning of shooting ranges, hunting and sports stands, enterprises and workshops for the manufacture and repair of firearms and cold weapons, pyrotechnic workshops, material part of weapons points of study, special tools, rules for handling them and their use, stores that sell weapons and ammunition for them, organizations engaged in the sale of potent poisonous substances, and laboratories working with pathogens of infectious diseases of the I–II pathogenicity group and toxins, warehouses, bases and premises for storage and use of entities of the permit system; • The subjects of registration and permit-licensing procedures in the activities of the National Police have been defined. …”
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Concerning orders of arms of Tula production for the Caucasian Line Cossack Host ranks in the 1840’s by Sergey V. Talantov

“…The author’s research reveals documents containing information about orders from Tula merchants and arms manufacturers for cold and firearms for the ranks of the Caucasian Line Cossack Host and the 1st Sunzhenskiy Line Cossack Regiment in the 1840s. …”
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POSITIVE HUMAN RIGHTS OBLIGATION OF STATES AND THE USE OF AUTONOMOUS WEAPON SYSTEMS DURING LAW ENFORCEMENT OPERATIONS by Berkant Akkuş

“…States' positive human rights obligations in line with the United Nations, Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials, can be listed as weapon selection and the duty of precaution, the official training of law enforcement officers, procedural obligation, the right to explanation and the right not to be subject to completely automatic decisions. …”
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Automobile transport and armored car military units of the Russian Imperial Army. 1896–1917s by M. S. Novikov

“…At the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century a rapid process of preparation for the war of the countries of the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente took place, which was accompanied by an the increase in the size of the army, equipping them with automatic firearms, rapid-fire artillery and aircraft. An important element of preparation for war was the increase in the mobility of armies, in addition to horse-drawn and rail transport, automobiles began to appear. …”
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A Study of the Flow Field Surrounding Interacting Line Fires by Trevor Maynard, Marko Princevac, David R. Weise

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ELECTORAL VIOLENCE IN KADUNA STATE: THE IMPLICATION FOR PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT by Abdullahi Umar, Abubakar Abdullahi Muhammad, Awwal Muhammad Shafiu, Abdulrahim Mahmud Dogara, Amina Lawal

“…The paper suggests that the government should focus on the prevention in order to solve election violence in Kaduna State by reducing the number of firearms in the hands of unlicensed people and giving job chances to young people who are unemployed. …”
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Simultaneous Health Risk Behaviors in Adolescents Associated with Higher Economic Class in the Northeast of Brazil by Arley Santos Leão, Nara Michelle Moura Soares, Eliane Cristina de Andrade Gonçalves, Diego Augusto Santos Silva, Roberto Jerônimo dos Santos Silva, Sara Maria Thomazzi

“…The risk behaviors measured were “low levels of physical activity,” “excessive daily TV time,” “high consumption of alcoholic beverages on a single occasion,” “involvement in fights,” “smoking cigarettes,” “carrying firearms,” and “marijuana consumption.” Information was obtained through self-administered questionnaire. …”
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Counteraction to sabotage measures on ammunition depots in the context of hybrid warfare by Ye. V. Karmannyi, M. V. Lys

“…In our study, particular attention is paid to such objects as stockpiles of ammunition, where weapons, missiles, ammunition, explosives, firearms, special means are stored. The authors of the article offer the main ways of improving and reforming the security system of these objects. …”
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Moral and Psychological Stability of Police Officers in the System of Their Professionally Important Qualities by I. V. Klymenko

“…The author has singled out psychological structure of this characteristic, namely: motivational component, the indicators of which are a positive attitude to service, awareness of the importance of conscientious performance of official tasks and conscious desire to perform professional duties, belief in the value of moral norms and the need to subordinate own behavior; cognitive component, which includes knowledge of the legal basis of professional activity, ethical requirements of police officers’ behavior, the rules of use of physical force, special means and firearms; professional-personal component, which contains such professional moral and psychological qualities as professional honor, justice, decency, honesty, compassion and empathy, attitude to the rule of law, discipline, humanity, responsibility and a reflective component that characterizes the ability of a police officer to analyze phenomena of own consciousness and activity and assess the level of formation of moral and psychological stability, ability to effectively solve job problems. …”
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Administrative Supervision of the National Police of Ukraine by I. M. Kovalov, V. A. Yevtushok

“…Administrative supervision over the compliance with the law is carried out in the areas of public order and public safety, public administration, business, drug trafficking, firearms and ammunition, road safety, and other sectors of the economy and public administration. …”
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Welfare of horses at slaughter by EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW), Søren Saxmose Nielsen, Julio Alvarez, Anette Boklund, Sabine Dippel, Fernanda Dorea, Jordi Figuerola, Mette Herskin, Miguel Angel Miranda Chueca, Eleonora Nannoni, Romolo Nonno, Anja Riber, Karl Stahl, Jan Arend Stegeman, Hans‐Hermann Thulke, Frank Tuyttens, Christoph Winckler, Mohan Raj, Antonio Velarde, Denise Candiani, Yves Van der Stede, Virginie Michel

“…Stunning methods for horses include penetrative captive bolt and firearms. Welfare consequences that horses may experience (such as handling stress, restriction of movement and injuries) and potential hazards were identified for all the phases along with preventive and corrective measures. …”
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National, International and Legal Mechanisms of Control over the Activity of Non-Government Security Entities by M. V. Zavalnyi

“…Private security companies in the course of their activities can apply physical force, special means (in some countries even firearms) to citizens, carry out their detention, which in turn can cause degrading treatment and physical suffering. …”
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Association Between Adolescent Violence Exposure and the Risk of Suicide: A 15-Year Study in Taiwan by Chieh Sung, Chi-Hsiang Chung, Chien-An Sun, Chang-Huei Tsao, Daphne Yih Ng, Tsu-Hsuan Weng, Li-Yun Fann, Fu-Huang Lin, Wu-Chien Chien

“…Among adolescents who had experienced violence, the methods of suicide included poisoning (solid and liquid) (53.6% vs. 43.2%), hanging (1.2% vs. 0.6%), firearms (2.4% vs. 0%), and cutting instruments (27.4% vs. 22.8%), all of which were significantly higher than in the control group. …”
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