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...precisely what the leader of the criminal gang, Defendant Georges + Courtois, 38, had in mind when he demanded that television cameras be brought into the courtroom. "You have been judging me," the gaunt Courtois said with icy calm. "Now it is our turn to judge you." Waving a pistol and smoking a cigar, he launched into a lengthy harangue, warning that the "slightest attempt" by police to intervene would mean bloodshed. His words were quickly broadcast to spellbound TV viewers all over France...
What explains all this commerce and excitement in such a tiny community is geography: its location between Beverly Hills and Hollywood (which legally disappeared into the city of Los Angeles in 1910). Shaped like a pistol complete with hammer and trigger, West Hollywood nestles at the base of the Hollywood Hills with its barrel aimed resolutely east...
...house by nine police officers searching for a teenager who was suspected of possessing a sawed-off shotgun. The youth's mother confronted the police after they had battered down her front door. Apparently fearing that the armed youth was inside, a police inspector fired a .38-cal. pistol. The shot struck the woman, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. As word of the shooting spread, crowds gathered outside the Brixton Road police station and began throwing gasoline bombs and bricks. Rampaging youths, some as young as 13, looted businesses, set fire to cars and poured oil on roadways...
...controlling the launchers is dominated by rows of seven lights showing the status of each missile, ranging from "dummy" (the missile is passive) to "missile away." Each weapon has been pretargeted and carries highly sophisticated, computer-controlled guidance systems. The final release would be performed by Hardenbergh with a pistol-grip firing trigger attached to his console. The missiles are propelled through their silos by compressed gas, which then forms a bubble around them until they reach the water's surface and ignite automatically...
...their sales from $1.1 million in 1979 to $4 million in 1981. Business collapsed when the Government reclassified the gun as an automatic weapon in 1982, but the Daniels got around the restriction by marketing a $300 MAC-10 kit that could be used to build a rapid-fire pistol with parts available from another company. In June a grand jury in Fresno, Calif., indicted the Daniels and two others on charges of conspiring to manufacture and market the parts for making illegal automatic weapons and silencers...