Analyze the economic and technological implications for the space launch industry of the expected defense industry contraction and consolidation. Evaluate foreign launch industries and contrast their technical capabilities with U.S. industry. Assess the technology base for developing the next generation of space-launchers and ballistic missiles, including the state of government research laboratories. Christopher Waychoff 228-6447. The misuse of handgunsincluding accidents involving handguns and the use of handguns in crimesis an important source of this concern.
Accidents involving children and guns are particularly unsettling.
Handgun Safety Handguns are intended to remain quiescent unless fired intentionally. However, children and adults who are not trained in the proper handling and ownership of firearms are a source of gun accidents. Inadvertent firings occur for a number of reasons, including such operator errors as failing to realize a gun is loaded or failing to handle a loaded gun in a proper manner. Many ideas have been proposed to reduce gun accidents. These often take the form of devices to force the use of a gun to become a more deliberate act and include such things as trigger locks, magazine safety devices, and load indicators.