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...first it seemed like a freak accident. As the usual lunchtime crowd jammed Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, last Wednesday, a blue Ford Ranger pickup tore across the parking lot and barreled straight through the restaurant's plate-glass window. A few startled customers ran to help the driver. To their horror, a muscular young man in a green shirt sprang from behind the wheel with a semiautomatic pistol and began firing. "This is what Bell County did to me . . . This is payback day!" he shouted as he made his way through the crowd, pumping bullets in every direction...
...Glock 17, the same model that George Hennard had used two days earlier in his massacre of 23 people in Killeen, 175 miles north of Houston. I called Carter's Country, a gun store, first. They did not carry it but suggested several stores, including Wal-Mart. I decided to try the chain but struck out at the first Wal-Mart I visited. "I don't stock them," said the salesman. "This is a cheap-gun neighborhood." He suggested another outlet, and a customer-service representative dialed the number and handed me the receiver. I was told I would need...
...domestic semiautomatics and the restriction of magazines containing more than seven rounds was a logical next step that could prevent haunted individuals from committing mass murders. During the House debate, one legislator did switch his vote: Chet Edwards, a Texas Democrat and gun-control opponent whose district includes Killeen, site of last week's killings. "Suddenly, the old arguments ring hollow -- 'Guns don't kill people, people do' . . . This is one step, one reasonable, commonsense effort to put in regulations in the real world of crazed individuals and criminals...
Cavalry and armored divisions were shipping out from Fort Hood, Texas. A lawyer in nearby Killeen executed wills and powers of attorney free of charge. A pawnshop announced it was willing to hold items for a year without charge to soldiers going to the gulf. In Memphis a radio station sponsored an "Iraq-no- phobia" gasoline sale in which a service station, its attendants dressed like Arabs, offered gas for 50 cents...
...geldings were confiscated after agents arrested Larry Renick of Killeen, Texas, in July 1985 for illegally operating a stimulant-producing lab. Fortunately, some $2 million in other assets was also seized, since the horses have turned out to be almost total losers. Flint Fire finished next to last in a field of eight last week at the New Mexico State Fair. Golden Parachute finished dead last in a race two weeks ago. The horses' combined purses this year: $7,309. The money went into the U.S. Marshals Service Assets Forfeiture Fund, which will be further enriched when the horses...