Word: holstering
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...player and blasts out his theme song, Simon and Garfunkel's Keep the Customer Satisfied. With fingers tapping on the steering wheel, he belts out the lyrics ("I get slandered/ Libeled/ I hear words I never heard in the Bible"). Then he unsnaps the gun's holster. "They may kill me," he says, "but I'm going to take some of them with me." Tucker knows that someone out there may really mean business; only last winter an antiabortion extremist shot and killed David Gunn, an abortion doctor who rode the circuit just to the south...
...TEXAS GUNS ARE PRETTY MUCH THE STATE FLOWER. NOW IT seems elements in the state may be exporting a new way to conceal some of that firepower: a holster that looks like a beeper. An internal San Francisco police bulletin warns cops to be wary of suspects using this product, available by mail order from Grand Prairie, Texas. An ad for the holster/beeper reads: "Fast. Safe. Discreet. Press button and front of case pops open and hinges down, allowing instant draw...
...years ago, in another quarter of town, he cornered a drug dealer, only to discover it was a baby-face 11-year-old boy. The child had a gun. Earl slid his own service revolver back into the holster, hoping to defuse the tension and thinking of his own son that age. After a few words, the child pulled the trigger, and a .32-caliber slug ripped through Earl's groin, coming to rest between the muscle and spine. Earl returned a single shot. The boy fell dead. "After I shot the kid, I rocked him in my arms," says...
There would seem to be a large potential audience. According to a 1988 Gallup poll, 15.6 million American women own a rifle, shotgun or handgun. The latest issue includes feature stories on fashionable holster bags and how to choose a .38 Special revolver. Gun-control advocates, meanwhile, have gone ballistic about the new magazine. Says Susan Witmore of Handgun Control Inc. in Washington: "It is published by a gun lobby and designed to prey on the legitimate fears of women, saying, in effect, that their only protection...
...snaps on his blue roof light and hits the gas. Within minutes, he reaches the Cessna 441. Its props are still turning, but the pilot has fled into the dense, swampy undergrowth. Dressed for the office in a suit and loafers, Kennedy pulls a Walther PPK from his ankle holster and gamely wades in, immediately losing a shoe to the muck. Reinforcements soon join him, and the search goes on for hours. Though the pilot manages to evade them, Kennedy and his colleagues seize nearly a ton of cocaine from the abandoned plane...