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Nomenclature can obscure the magnitude of this change. When people talk of allowing concealed weapons, there is a tendency to imagine legions of citizens who had previously carried their Smith & Wessons on their hips gratefully slipping them into a coat pocket. But since half the states flatly ban carrying an exposed weapon (and the practice attracts unwanted attention everywhere), restrictions on concealment are effectively restrictions on almost any carrying of handguns outside the home. As the states change their CCW laws, citizens may have to endure background checks and waiting periods to procure their handguns, but most will also...
Forsyth was stopped and arrested on Bow Street by Harvard University police officer George White, who spotted Forsyth suspiciously carrying the large statue under his coat, according to Johnson...
...sheriff's office and tried to file some homespun legal papers on behalf of their fellow "freemen," a loose group that opposes taxes, gun restrictions and federal regulation. Both were arrested for carrying concealed weapons. Then three more men drove up to the office, and one opened his coat to display a holstered pistol. All three were jailed. Finally, two men waiting in a nearby car (guns and cash were later found in its trunk) were forced out of their vehicle and jailed. One turned out to be John Trochmann, co-founder of the Militia of Montana, an armed, conspiracy...
...much for him in the third act. Rubinfield is a fiesty flirt who uses the low dramatic energy around her to her advantage; she draws every eye to her, both on stage and off, with admirable seconda donna tactics. The conviction and simplicity of Josh Benaim's cameo "coat aria" in the fourth act place the aria closer to Puccini's original intentions than many a bass who overplay the fact that they are singing to a coat and end up looking, well, goofy...
...Texas A&M, was interviewing her for a teaching position. Gramm started flirting with her during the interview, while his alarmed colleagues cautioned him to back off. Gramm persisted. "When she got through with the interview, I walked out the door with her and helped her on with her coat," he says. "And I said, 'As a single member of the faculty, I'd be especially interested in your coming to Texas A&M.' She looked up at me and said, 'Yuk!'" Undeterred, Gramm returned to his colleagues and said triumphantly, "We're going to convince her to come...