Word: glocking
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...Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin L. Powell talked with students in front of Au Bon Pain on Commencement Day, a Harvard patrol officer quietly took a Glock semiautomatic pistol from a crazed man standing just a few feet away...
...phone with a clinic. "How's it look?" he asks. There's a problem: it seems a large, angry man is raising hell in the parking lot while 40 antiabortion protesters picket the clinic. "This," says Tucker, his right hand slowly sliding down to touch the 9-mm Glock pistol wedged beside his seat, "is where I start to feel the tingle...
...Glock 17, the same model that George Hennard had used two days earlier in his massacre of 23 people in Killeen, 175 miles north of Houston. I called Carter's Country, a gun store, first. They did not carry it but suggested several stores, including Wal-Mart. I decided to try the chain but struck out at the first Wal-Mart I visited. "I don't stock them," said the salesman. "This is a cheap-gun neighborhood." He suggested another outlet, and a customer-service representative dialed the number and handed me the receiver. I was told I would need...
...went to the sporting-goods counter and said I would like to buy a 9-mm pistol. "You want that Glock?" the salesman asked, recognizing my voice. He took out the display gun, which had a locked trigger, and gave it to me. "Here you are, Model 17. They make a Model 19 also." Another customer, who turned out to be a grocery-store manager, spoke up. "That's a popular gun right now. They're real popular with the kids -- high school kids. They buy them off the streets. They tell...
...wanted to buy a gun, much less this one. Both men had assumed I wanted it for protection, but the salesman didn't question the wisdom of buying this model. The manager arrived, told me I could return it and mentioned that Popular Mechanics had recently tested the Glock with excellent results...