Guns

Hard time has brought out the inner genius in a lot of prisoners, and when already clever people get locked up that just gives them more time to work on their ideas. From the unbelievably advanced makeshift appliances and weapons prisoners use to make their lives easier to great works of literature, philosophy, and engineering that were first devised in the hoosegow, we look at ten unlikely things that owe their existence to a stretch in the cooler. ELECTRONICS Most of us have a fair amount of trouble just trying to pry the dead batteries out of our remote controls, but a few electrically-skilled and ...

By Craig Gottlieb Before Lee Harvey Oswald's brief time in the public eye was cut short by nightclub owner Jack Ruby, his life was like a bad movie script: quixotic, curious, mildly entertaining, but not much worth watching. An outsider who learned to shoot while in the Marines, the restless Oswald may have been the only man ever to defect to the Soviet Union and then move back to America. And whether you believe Oswald acted alone in shooting the president or had help from the CIA, Mafia, KGB, Cuban intelligence or some random dude on a hill, we do know Oswald bought this 6.5 mm Mannlicher Carcano rifle by mail ...