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Some experts dispute the merits of the MAC as an effective weapon. One law- enforcement official calls the short-barreled machine pistol "a piece of junk" that is difficult to control. Miami Police Officer Robert P. Davis, who has tested MACs, disagrees: "They are devastating in automatic form. They are like spraying water from a hose." The MAC-10 greatly outnumbers another gun favored by criminals, the compact Israeli-made UZI. That well-built weapon is more accurate, but it is more expensive at around $700 and far more complicated to convert to automatic firing. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco...
...Boston, scheduled to appear the following morning on a television show. During the trip, however, an urgent telephone message arrived: there was a suicide emergency at Falwell's center for alcoholics in Lynchburg, Va. A distraught veteran was threatening to blow his head off with a loaded pistol unless Falwell came back and talked to him. The would-be suicide was put on the phone, and, slick as butter, the Reverend began to calm him. Falwell explained, as one reasonable person to another, that he had to be on a national television program. But, Falwell promised, he would certainly...
...chores. His father owned the local power company, ran a dance hall and trucked bootleg whisky during Prohibition. He was a heavy drinker and shot his own brother to death before Jerry was born. A judge ruled the act to be self-defense, since the brother was wielding a pistol. Jerry was a rowdy in his school years, drove cars at 100 m.p.h. and hung around outside a neighborhood cafe late at night with his buddies stopping traffic and taunting motorists. When he proposed marriage to Macel Pate, who played the piano at the Park Avenue Baptist Church, the girl...
...rain stopped, the sun showed, a pistol spat and Lake Michigan fairly boiled with sleek, flashing bodies, the women in green caps, the men in orange. Out of the water and onto the bikes, they hurled themselves through encouraging throngs: "Lookin' good! Keep it up!" One biker wore a helmet that looked like a silver tear cut in half, something Mercury himself might have favored. Off the bikes, pulling on running shoes, they shattered records in tying laces. Then they tore off on foot, the sound of their hearts pounding in their ears. Scott Molina was first to finish...
Ralf Traugott, 32, Lunenburg, Mass., automobile dealer. One of the two initial hijackers, who called himself "Castro," spoke German better than English. When he discovered that Traugott was born in Berlin, "he immediately called out my name and came over to me," recalls Traugott. "He put his 9-mm pistol against my forehead and put a hand grenade against my ear." In German, Castro asked, "Have you fear?" Traugott replied in German, "No, I have no fear." That answer, says Traugott, seemed to surprise Castro, so Traugott added, "O.K., a little bit when you have the gun and the grenade...