Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jury box. Judge Parker heaved his swivel chair at Bivins, who was pumping a slug at his own lawyer, showering the deputy court clerk with plaster when the bullet pinged into the wall near her head. Then he turned and shot Parker in the loins. When his gun misfired, the judge and Bivins' lawyer managed to kick him into submission...
...wealth of invention and artistry in the history of firearms is handsomely pictured and chronicled (see color opposite) in One Hundred Great Guns, due to be published next month by Walker & Co. ($19.95). The 384-page volume was written by Manhattan Gun Connoisseur Merrill Lindsay and illustrated by Bruce Pendleton, who spent two years photographing the finest in firearms in museums and private collections around the world...
...purchasers of the most precise weapons were the ruling elite, and they demanded decoration to suit their status. Emperor Charles V (1500-58), who often donned work clothes to fiddle with gunmaking himself, once paid $33,000 for a matched set of two pistols, a rifle and bird gun. Weapons that took only a few weeks to manufacture were subjected to months, often years, of or namentation, with several craftsmen combining their skills. Two Munich gunmakers, for example, used bone, ivory, chiseled steel and beaten gold to decorate a combined wheel lock and matchlock for Maximilian of Bavaria around...
...flechettes their impressive muscle. Cleansed of its fissionable isotopes U-235, the depleted uranium is safe to handle. Because it is one of the heaviest natural elements (a 1-ft. cube of uranium weighs 1,167 lbs.), even a tiny uranium flechette fired at high velocity from a gun has so much kinetic energy that it can penetrate a target at an angle as oblique...
...hopes soon to adapt the uranium flechettes for firing from a multi-barreled, rotary Gatling gun that can spew out hundreds of rounds per second. When this weapon system has been perfected, there seems little that will be able to stand in the way of its deadly rain of uranium bullets...