Word: handgun
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...agents' insistence, Markell went back through his books but found no record that his store was the source of the smaller Walther P-22 handgun that Cho also used in the shootings. The agents concluded the Walther (which sells for about $300), came from some other vendor...
...legally purchased his first gun, the 9 mm, along with a box of 50 bullets about five weeks ago from a local gun shop, according to the Roanoke Times. The Walther was purchased just last week. Virginia law prohibits buying more than one handgun in a 30-day period. It appears Cho waited the full month before buying the Walther, suggesting he didn't just snap...
...February 29, 2000: Mount Morris Township, Michigan A 6 year-old boy brings a .32 semi-automatic handgun to school and kills a first grader...
...August 15, 1996: San Diego, California Frederick Martin Davidson, 36, a graduate engineering student at San Diego State, is defending his thesis before a faculty committee when he pulls out a handgun and kills three professors. February 19, 1997: Bethel, Alaska A 16 year-old shoots and kills his principal and a student. Two other students are injured...
...instance where Tasers could have prevented the use of firearms. He said that Cambridge Police Commissioner Ronnie Watson told him of an incident in which an officer attempted to subdue a suspect with a beanbag gun and failed. Sullivan said that the officer was forced to use his handgun in self-defense, but might have been able to subdue the suspect with a Taser had he had one. —Nicholas K. Tabor contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Khalid Abdalla can be reached at kabdalla@fas.harvard.edu...