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...Japanese shun guns, they adore models of the real thing. Last year model-gun manufacturers turned out a $25 million arsenal of 600,000 ersatz weapons, among them exact replicas of the Luger PO8, the Walther P38 and the Mauser Military 7.63 mm. According to law, all barrels of metal models were colored yellow or white so as to discourage holdup men from fooling the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Disarming Idea | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

...makes a hash of his already soppy theme when the leaders of the warring realms meet for a climactic duel of good magic v. bad. Bakshi has the kindly wizard of Montagar pull out a Luger and drill the evil sorcerer of Scortch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quick Cuts | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

...landing, they made the pilot shoot across Lake Erie to Cleveland's Hopkins Airport. Meanwhile, the passengers showed extraordinary courage. Halberstadt called to Moore, "If you have a minute, I'd like to talk to you," and tried to reason with the hijacker while Moore held a Luger and the hand grenade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Terror on Flight 49 | 11/27/1972 | See Source »

...logical destination. Once aboard the hijacked jet, he harangued the passengers with his political notions. "This fascist Government has got to fall!" he ranted. "These fascists have done nothing but keep the little man down. The only way you can be free is with this!" he shouted, waving his Luger. Putting the weapon to the head of a newsman, Ron Pinkney, he demanded: "What's the matter, black man? Are you afraid to die? Blacks who do not fight and give into the white man are slave niggers." He turned on a white man and asked him what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Bureaucrat Berserk | 11/13/1972 | See Source »

...turn right. "The whole company kids me," she says. "They call me the fascist rightwinger of the cast. One day Hal Prince and Alexis and I were talking about how expensive things could be. I said I knew what they meant because I was buying a box of Luger bullets in Virginia City, and I was amazed at how expensive they were. There was this shocked silence. I love to shoot, a lot of people do; so what? It's just target practice. I would never shoot an animal. Only targets ?or people if they were attacking my house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Once and Future Follies | 5/3/1971 | See Source »

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