Word: pistoled
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...that early last year Fromme was taken by a boy friend to the Sharp's Park rifle range in South San Francisco. Squeaky was said to have been afraid of the .45-she did not like its noise or kick-but she did learn to handle a .22 pistol that had a similar slide mechanism. Why, then, had she not pulled back the slide on her Colt? Says her friend: "Squeaky's a spacy girl, and it's just like her to forget to pull the slide...
...minor drama was unfolding ten blocks away. Inside cavernous Kiel Auditorium, where the President was scheduled to address the Baptists about one hour later, Patrolman Thomas L. Calcaterra spotted a man standing on a catwalk about 40 ft. above the stage -holding what appeared to be a .45-cal. pistol...
...extraordinary caution was taken at the urging of White House officials. Shortly after Fromme had pointed her loaded pistol at Ford, the Secret Service got a call from a manufacturer of "protective clothing." He offered to show some safety products for the President. Though there has never been much enthusiasm for heavy, uncomfortable bulletproof garments among those responsible for presidential security, the Secret Service nonetheless passed them on to the White House before the President left on his New Hampshire campaign trip...
...clear when the Secret Service examined the 3-lb. Colt automatic. It was loaded with four bullets, but there was no bullet in the chamber ready to be fired (see diagram). To shoot the gun, Fromme would first have had to pull back the slide on top of the pistol, thus forcing a bullet from the clip up into the chamber. After the first shot was fired, the next bullet would have been automatically fed into the chamber...
...Brel succeeds in killing himself, then the death will have to be reported to the police, company that Ventura can easily do without. Ventura makes an attempt to do Brel's job for him−out in the country with a single, simple pistol shot−but is totally undone by events, which include having to drive a hysterical pregnant woman to a clinic...