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...possession. Last week in Oklahoma, two brothers, 12 and 10, were charged with shooting a 49-year-old grocer to death. Startling accidents happen, especially around inexperienced gun handlers. A Detroit man heard footsteps in his home, saw the knob of his bedroom door open slowly, leveled his bedside pistol???and fatally drilled his three-year-old daughter through the head. In Gunnison, Colo., Robert Delaney was riding along a dirt road on a motorbike when a shot rang out. His 15-year-old son Kirk, following on another motorbike, tumbled to the ground dead. Then his ten-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE GUN UNDER FIRE | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

Because the alarm came from an unsavory part of town?in which Reporter Leary had conducted a vice investigation six months ago and for which he was permitted to carry a pistol???Acting Captain of Detectives Thomas Rowe collected reserves from headquarters, deputized Reporter Leary on the spot. From whimpering Mrs. Bray the identity and whereabouts of the murderer were found. Captain Rowe, Reporter Leary and seven others went in after him, cornered him in a dark back room. Leary was ordered outside to cover the window with a flashlight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mystery Plunge | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

...once the onetime War Lord appeared smiling, affable, passed around his famous fat cigars. The accident was regrettable, he said, but easily explained. He had been "handling" a new pistol???presumably much as a Tilden swishes a new racket?to get its hang and feel. He had not noticed Prince Hsien Kai or anyone else in the garden. Somehow or other, while he "handled" the pistol, it had gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Ugly Customer | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

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