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...traveled the breadth of Texas last summer. Granted, everything is big, but when you say Charles Whitman carried a 35-mm. Remington, that isn't big; that's Texas...
...containing water and gasoline, rope, binoculars, canteens, transistor radio, toilet paper, and, in a bizarre allegiance to the cult of cleanliness, a plastic bottle of Mennen spray deodorant. He also stowed away a private armory that seemed sufficient to hold off an army: machete, Bowie knife, hatchet, a 6-mm. Remington bolt-action rifle with a 4-power Leupold telescopic sight (with which, experts say, a halfway decent shot can consistently hit a 6½-in. circle from 300 yds.), a 35-mm. Remington rifle, a 9-mm. Luger pistol, a Galesi-Brescia pistol and a .357 Smith & Wesson Magnum revolver...
...bodies sprawled grotesquely on the mall. At first she thought it was just a tasteless joke. "I expected the six to get up and walk away laughing." Then she saw the pavement splashed with blood, and more people falling. In the first 20 minutes, relying chiefly on the 6-mm. rifle with the scope but switching occasionally to the carbine and the .357 revolver, Whitman picked off most of his victims...
...some suspicious tracks leading into an out-of-the-way forested area near North Viet Nam's Mu Gia Pass. "I dropped down to 500 ft., and sure enough, there was a truck. My first burst of 20 mike-mike [Air Forcese for another helpful weapon, his 20-mm. cannon] hit it. It looked like a small Hanoi going off-there was a 2,500-ft. fireball." Joining the attack, Kasler's buddies set off nine other explosions and 18 fires-demolishing what turned out to be a major staging area...
...qualifications of the buyer or notify police. Some dealers also offer a variety of heavy, war-surplus antitank guns and bazookas. One youngster with a mail-order bazooka shot several thousand dollars' worth of transformers off utility posts before he was arrested. Four California youths, using a 20-mm. antitank gun bought for $150, shot a blast that set fire to part of the Angeles National Forest...