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...Better You than Them." McCoy's first test came on the third night the Carronade was on the line. A U.S. Army adviser called in from an outpost that was being overrun by Viet Cong, desperately demanded fire support. McCoy explained that his 5-in. gun was out of commission and all he had was rockets. "Never mind," answered the adviser. "Better you than them." The Carronade cut loose, slamming rockets into the attackers, only 200 yds. from the friendly troops. That night confidence was born in the accuracy of naval rocket fire. "We got to the point," says...
Filling the Gun Gap. Created during last fall's "gun gap" to add desperately needed firepower to the ground war, McCoy's Navy consists of three World War II-vintage LSMRs (for Landing Ship Medium, Rocket) and the only inshore-fire-support ship in the world, the U.S.S. Carronade (aptly named for an 18th century cannon). Originally designed to pulverize beachheads for invading U.S. Marines, each ship mounts a battery of 5-in. rocket launchers and a single 5-in. naval rifle. Since the Marines had already landed when McCoy's Navy showed up last April...
...rebellious city that the mercenaries were not involved in the mutiny. But 6th Commando Boss Robert Denard, a magnificently mustachioed Frenchman who served Tshombe in the secession, was on the scene, and no one could say for certain that Mulamba's disclaimer had not been uttered at mercenary gun point. Tshombe, who Mobutu believes is behind the uprising, was keeping ominously quiet in his exile refuge somewhere in Southern Europe...
Though the Federal Firearms Act prohibits the mailing of hand guns, except to military officers, policemen, Government watchmen and other authorized persons, mail-order dealers commonly get around this barrier by shipping pistols and revolvers by common carriers and commercial delivery services. No federal law requires the shippers to question the qualifications of the buyer or notify police. Some dealers also offer a variety of heavy, war-surplus antitank guns and bazookas. One youngster with a mail-order bazooka shot several thousand dollars' worth of transformers off utility posts before he was arrested. Four California youths, using...
...Target. Like many polemics, Bakal's book is weakened by intemperate tone, Sunday supplement style, exaggerations and errors. It is obviously not true that "guns are made only to put a bullet through a living body, in order to kill." Most ammunition sold in the U.S. each year is shot up by skeet-and trapshooters, rifle-match enthusiasts and wood-lot plinkers-gunmen no more bloodthirsty than golfers or bowlers. Yet that does not detract from the main point: U.S. gun laws are an ineffective muddle, and the nation would benefit from stricter enforcement of existing laws and sterner...