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...released its report? And why hasn't the local sheriff released the text of the depositions his office conducted? There is also a small and geeky but persistent debate over whether Cheney might have been closer to Whittington than 30 yds., the figure in the sheriff's report. Some gun experts say from that distance, it would be unlikely that birdshot could penetrate Whittington's clothes and chest wall. Others agree with Jon Nordby, an analyst with Final Analysis Forensic of University Place, Wash., who says, "It is certainly possible, and I've seen it. I had a case where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Shooting at the Ranch | 2/19/2006 | See Source »

...surprised Dick Cheney loves to hunt so much. The five times the government tried to give him a gun, he got a deferment." --JAY LENO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Punchlines: Feb. 27, 2006 | 2/19/2006 | See Source »

...Colo., who dreams of leaving the Army someday and buying a horse ranch, tucks her flaxen hair under her helmet. Her friendly grin vanishes beneath a black fire-retardant mask with goggles. She trained as a driver, but her superiors switched her to gunner. "We need maturity behind the gun," says squad leader Darren Horve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crossing The Lines | 2/19/2006 | See Source »

...humvee leaves camp, Horve yells out to her, "Hey, Swenson! Keep an eye open for triggermen hiding along the road." She nods. In the gunner's hatch, she is armed with a 240 Bravo machine gun that fires 950 rounds a minute, but she is more vulnerable than the men inside the humvee's armored shell to sniper bullets and shrapnel from roadside bombs. As the convoy rolls down the back roads, Swenson and the guys in her humvee keep up an easy, comradely banter, joking about the Iraqi kids they see along their patrol: one boy moves like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crossing The Lines | 2/19/2006 | See Source »

SHAQ-LES NBA dunkster Shaquille O'Neal gave new meaning to heat last year when he joined Miami's team--and the city's police force. The 7-ft. 1-in. Shaq is allowed to carry a gun and make arrests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Casting for Cops | 2/19/2006 | See Source »

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