Word: pistolling
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...afternoon in early November after cruising gang members twice tried to run down his son, the beleaguered auto mechanic finally lost his cool. Rodriguez fired a semiautomatic pistol into the air from his backyard to signal that he'd been pushed far enough. Neighbors called the police, who this time arrived within minutes and arrested Rodriguez. "I begged them not to take me and leave my family without protection," he remembers bitterly. But Ralph Rodriguez went to jail...
...Louisville an ex-employee of a printing plant went on a shooting spree with a Chinese-made semiautomatic version of the AK- 47, gunning down 21 people, killing eight and himself. Two Colorado women were murdered and several others injured by a junkie using a stolen MAC-11 semiautomatic pistol. And Congress votes itself a pay raise...
...means out, especially since the same fear of crime that leads some people to call for gun control sends many others running to buy a side arm. "It's great to have the N.R.A. out there battling for us," says Jean Pitman of Vero Beach, Fla., who bought a pistol after her home was robbed. "The real worry for me is losing the right...
...Matthew then went to the home of his best friend, John McMahon, who traveled with him to a railroad bridge in Revere. After removing Carol's engagement ring from the purse, Matthew flung the bag into the river. Then McMahon, at Matthew's bidding, heaved the pistol 25 ft. away from the bridge into the muddy Pines River. That part of Matthew's story proved true. Police divers recovered the bag at the location Matthew, and then McMahon, described. Six days later, divers found a nickel-plated, snub-nosed .38 revolver whose registration number matched that of a pistol missing...
...Republic. Proud to the end, Noriega wanted to wear his general's uniform and surrender only to a general officer. Laboa, who had outwitted his adversary, said that would be fine. "I'm better at psychology," the nuncio summed up later. "He's more cunning than intelligent. Without his pistol, he is manageable by anyone...