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making things tight even in games where becomes to be the best the site is and. distinctive as they are. by the way working on playing better more effectively it wasn't the convincing victory fans were hoping for but by and faith weight of the season was enough to get them back to the top of the table. all right to formula one now and a red bulls mock fish stop and has been stripped of his pole position at the mexican grand prix and given 83 place grid penalty all that means there are is charles the cleric will start 1st on the grid followed by his teammates the bus and federal and mercedes driver of lewis hamilton a mountain can win his 6th drivers' title if he finishes sunday's race on the podium or stop and was handed his penalty after failing to slow down when voluntary crashed into the wall the thin did escape unhurt. you're watching d.w. news our documentary on the increasing numbers of guns in germany is coming up next
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i'll have another news update for you at the top of the hour for me and the entire news team thanks for watching. because time to take one step further. and face the. time to search the. fight for the truth. to overcome outrageous claims contact. it's time for t.w. . coming up ahead. i never thought i'd find myself doing something like this. my name's craig or
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steinbrenner and i'm a reporter but today i'm a freedom fighter and my mission is to take the enemy's base. and with some 500 comrades in arms all armed to the teeth at a former military base near mt to back. with their covering fire shoot that is. compulsory military service ended in germany in 2011 but more and more people are getting into guns. what is a weapon like this do to you and to me that's what i want to find out that much i ask. because we aren't using lethal weapons these are air soft guns looking credibly real and cost around
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a $1000.00 euros each. they only fire small plastic balls. but it still hurts. i got it that's my 1st one more and i'm out. of all of them told all the other popular shooting games include laser tag and paint ball the bullets are still quite high velocity which is why we all wear goggles and you can't play until you're 18. the demand is huge here in knocked about alone the number of players has increased 10 fold since 2013. everybody seems to know what to do apart from me i'm a complete novice. coach
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and i'm actually pretty stupid here but it's not something that comes naturally to me i'm a civilian at heart. military service wasn't for me i refused and did civilian service instead and then i presented a kid show. but as a journalist now of course i'm curious where does his new love of guns come from. ok ok can we take a short break here. so muscle group the crazy monkeys does this a long as nobody knows what excites you why do you like it. more you with your pals overseas but it's all about strategy it's just great fronts this is not playing toward you. it's really hard to say. you know we don't want war. ok the weapons look real well you shouldn't just run across the road with one 0 it is exhibit
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a that's why we're in an enclosed space here you should only play with your guns here we comply with very strict rules if we didn't get to be no game. so cops and robbers for grownups ok got it but what's it like to carry a real gun i design to visit i 9 funds police academy to find out. if you're ready and wait for your signal. so with this is target practice for juliana my she's 20 and in her 2nd year as a police training. she's using her future service weapon and of course live ammunition. it takes 3 years to become a qualified police officer. off
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i've often. wow that's still pretty well out of business you can still feel it but you know you're right. and so how do you feel when you're practicing are you nervous for an offer that as a chairman was that well you know it's a practice situation but you still get an adrenaline rush and you do get nervous i'm always nervous when i'm here but you also learn to respect the gun ok but it's good time with the weapon is also part of your job isn't it jobs it's just that i know of course it gives you security and you have a weapon to use if you have to. how have you ever had a situation where you had to use your gun and most of the tools i mean i was once in a situation i was just one step away from using guns you stand there you're full of adrenaline trembling pumped full of adrenaline and then of course it's difficult to
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just aim at the arms and legs so she isn't the 1st visitor that means when you're actually a doctor or so right as an extra an extremely tense situation that's going on inside you. to get tunnel vision that you don't notice what's happening around you . it's a really crazy stressful situation. to prepare officers for situations like this recruits receive legal and ethical training in addition to weapons handling. the task today is to disassemble and reassemble the weapon using only a practice pistol of course. effect. and her civilian. mahler's go outside dismantling training. again with practice weapons and no
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ammunition. so when you're facing straight ahead you should always know where your weapon is pointing without looking where is your paper spray. there's a billy club we'll start with a guard. called the gun and take up a firing position. and so i've already been shot. that's what. so you got your pepper spray put your thumb in there holder like a gun put your thumb in there ok or not you press it. or. you can be trained to handle a weapon still i couldn't imagine using a real gun in an emergency. so if you are going to say what i
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said. i and most people in germany today find carrying a gun unthinkable but what.

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