Word: mm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when 300 officers quelled a random looting and rock- throwing melee at the corner of Florence and Normandie, where last spring's violence broke out. Moving swiftly, the cops cordoned off the area and made 60 arrests. To assert control without using clubs, some officers carried newly acquired 37-mm gas guns that shoot foam-rubber bullets...
...MOST FEARSOME WEAPONS CONFRONTING U.S. MARINES in Somalia are the 480 TOW ANTITANK MISSILES and the 75 81-mm mortars that Washington delivered to the Somali military in the 1980s. To prevent local warlords and brigands from turning the arms against the Americans, the Pentagon has quietly dispatched Special Operations forces to Somalia to track down the weapons and seize them...
Malcolm X student. Jordan, along with others, patrols the neighborhood at night, a flashlight in one hand, and -- until recently -- a gun in the other. "If you sat down a third-grader and asked him how to weigh crack, how to bag it, how to load a 9-mm, how a beeper works, you're going to get first-rate answers right...
...Mm Ouch...
...simply borrowed from friends. Openly proud of the firearms he has used, Knighton smiles fondly as he recalls each one. "When I was 14, I started out with a .25 automatic, then ; got me a .38 snub-nosed, then a 12-gauge shotgun, a .45 automatic and a 9-mm. But my last gun -- and my best gun -- was a baby...