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...back of the ambulance lies an Afghan, Hekmatullah, 22, gasping with pain at every bump. He had the awful luck to be living not more than 200 yards from a Taliban ammunition dump near Kandahar. Hekmatullah was sleeping in his courtyard the night when American bombs struck. The ammo depot erupted like a volcano, spewing bullets and rockets everywhere...
APACHE Armed to the teeth with Hellfire rockets, Stinger missiles and 1,200 rounds of 30-mm ammo...
...baggage check, and say, "There is a firearm in the black case." The check-in people will not even bat an eye. They ask you if it is unloaded, they open the case and look at the gun (you can't have more than 100 rounds of ammo in the case with the firearm itself), and then send it down the little conveyor belt to go into the plane. You can't joke about having a gun in your carry-on, but you can check an assault rifle, five handguns and 1,000 rounds of ammo in your checked bags...
...stay the hands of our satirists. It is not hard for them to imagine a fairly near future--or an alternate contemporary reality--in which the conventionalized perils of Survivor begin to pall, and some TV producer decides to raise the stakes. Give equally dull people real guns and ammo, and set them to stalking one another. The last man or woman alive wins...
Some may argue that solitary confinement is preferable to seven men packed into a 34-ft. RV, two twin beds in the back, 35 guns and ammo strewn about; the coarse companionship of murderers, rapists and the beater of a small child. But the Connally Seven had chosen a spectacular hideaway after one of them allegedly shot a policeman 11 times in Irving, Texas. The RV site was perched high above Woodland Park, with a postcard view of the northeast face of Pikes Peak fading and reappearing behind blowing snow and scuttling clouds. The fugitives had been there for three...