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Technically, you can drive through a national park with a firearm, as long as it's not loaded and not readily accessible in order to prevent poaching and accidental shootings. But now the Senators want the law loosened to allow Winchester-toting, pistol-packin' visitors to enjoy the national park, without feeling as if they were somehow engaging in an illegal act. The change in the regulations would most immediately benefit pro gun-rights constituents who live near Yellowstone, Glacier and Grand Teton national parks, allowing them not only to bring in their weapons but display them as openly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gun Lobby Targets Yellowstone | 12/21/2007 | See Source »

...Detective Andy Wainwright: You do know there are more guns in the country than there are in the city. Detective Andy Cartwright: Everyone and their mum is packin' round here! Nicholas: Like who? Wainwright: Farmers. Nicholas: Who else? Cartwright: Farmers' mums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Fuzz: Lethal Weapons in Jolly Old England | 4/21/2007 | See Source »

...Pistol-Packin' President In "A Saddam Souvenir," you reported that President Bush is keeping in the White House the pistol that Saddam was clutching when he was captured [June 7]. There is something incredibly disturbing and distasteful about the President's proudly showing off such spoils of war. His pride in displaying Saddam's gun is further proof that this war was part personal vendetta. Donna Rochester Tucson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 6/28/2004 | See Source »

...Pistol-Packin' President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 28, 2004 | 6/28/2004 | See Source »

...reading Crime and Punishment (by Fido Dogstoyevsky) or Pluto's Republic or Electronics for Dogs. The typical plot: Wallace will be seized by some selfish idea--flying to the moon for a cheese snack in A Grand Day Out or renting out Gromit's room to a pistol-packin' penguin in The Wrong Trousers or courting a sheep-napping femme fatale in A Close Shave--and Gromit will pitch us a conspiratorial sigh with a mute eloquence worthy of Buster Keaton. The put-upon pooch will then save Wallace in a breathless climax whose brio and ingenuity shame any live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: NICK PARK: HERE'S THE REAL BEST PICTURE | 4/8/1996 | See Source »

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