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...Marine Corps he scored 215 points out of a possible 250, winning a rating as a sharpshooter, second only to expert. In the Marines, though, he also got busted from corporal to private and sentenced to 30 days' hard labor for illegal possession of a pistol, was reprimanded for telling a fellow Marine that he was going "to knock your teeth out." He rated his favorite sports as hunting, scuba diving and karate...
...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. At home, he left three more rifles, two derringers...
...scepter in 1644, Christina soon became Europe's most curious baroque spinster queen. Her father, the militant Protestant Gustavus Adolphus, had ordered that she be brought up as a boy. In fact, the royal midwives had at first thought that she was one. She practiced shooting with a pistol, learned to speak Latin, French, German, Dutch, Italian and cope in Hebrew, Arabic and Greek...
...they had a tentative physical description of the suspect. As for the gun, he said that it belonged to the girl. Though most policemen would instinctively detain a man in such circumstances, the cops merely confiscated the weapon-a .22-cal. revolver (the murderer had carried a "small black pistol"). Hours later, police matched up the gun incident with the murder man hunt and rushed back to the hotel. Speck had left 30 minutes earlier...
...guns used in murders in 1963 and 1964 were bought-with shocking ease-through the mail. Forty-two states do not require persons to get licenses to buy hand guns, and in those states and areas with licensing laws, almost anyone who has the price of a pistol can get one. In Washington, D.C., police checked 200 persons who had received mail-order guns, found 25% of them had criminal records. In New Jersey, the Paterson Morning Call last November marked the second anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination by ordering a .38-cal. revolver by mail...