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Filipinos like to tell the story that U.S. General John "Blackjack" Pershing invented the Colt .45 revolver during his 1945 campaign against the Moros in Mindanao because it took at least six slugs to stop one of these fierce tribesmen before he hacked your head off. Today, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is having an even tougher time than Pershing in vanquishing the Moro's pirate descendants: the Islamic militant group known as Abu Sayyaf, which is holding 13 hostages, including three Americans, in the jungles of the country's deepest south...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perpetually Perilous | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...cozy arrangement lasted until Aug. 16, 1999, when Fletcher made a 911 call from his home in Hazel Park to report that his manicurist wife Leann, who was one month pregnant with the couple's second child, had shot and killed herself with his Colt .45. While examining the scene, police discovered in a closet a brown folder stuffed with drippy correspondence from Chrzanowski. It didn't take long to put the pieces together. At his murder trial last June, prosecutors surmised that Fletcher, having learned of Leann's pregnancy two days before her death, feared his mistress would leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dial M for Misconduct | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...Colt Revolver Samuel Colt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man-Made Marvels | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...Mets' left-handed pitching was also on message. NLCS MVP Mike Hampton, a hired gun from the former Colt 45s, threw 16 scoreless innings, allowing nine hits and four walks against 12 strikeouts. He pitched a three-hit shutout in the clinching game...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Goin' Bohlen: The Agony of Defeat | 10/18/2000 | See Source »

...move by Delfay's group, which is underwritten by iconic names such as Colt, Winchester, Ruger, Beretta, Glock and Smith & Wesson, follows a BATF study ("Following the Gun" at www.ATF.Treas.gov) released last month that blames nearly half of black-market guns on "straw purchases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So, What Triggered These Strange Bedfellows? | 7/27/2000 | See Source »

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