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Brady lay on the sidewalk, blood seeping from a wound in his head and trickling into an iron grating. He tried to rise. Rick Ahearn, a White House advanceman, cradled Brady's face and shouted: "A handkerchief, a handkerchief!" Dropped in the turmoil, a police pistol lay incongruously beside Brady's head. McCarthy had been trained to try to block any shots at the President with his own body; when the firing began, he turned away from the limousine toward the assailant. Hit in the abdomen by a bullet that might well have struck the President, McCarthy whirled away from...
...four years Hyten has been an Air Force ROTC cadet. That's four years of drill practice, leadership training, and military coursework. That's summer training with jogging, flying, daily briefings, and shooting on the pistol range. When he graduates this spring. Hyten will be among the first group of Harvard students to complete the full ROTC program through cross-registration...
Even in Arizona, which has the nation's toughest plant-protection law and pistol-packing lawmen to back it up, cactus rustlers make away with an estimated $500,000 to $1 million worth of plants each year. Among them: the giant saguaro (pronounced sah-vrar-o), Arizona's state flower, which grows to 50 ft. or more. The fruit of the saguaro is an important food source for practically all desert birds and is used as well by humans to make preserves and, yes, cactus wine...
...from her job at Bob's Big Boy Restaurant in West Los Angeles because she had made a false injury claim. A few months later, at 2:30 a.m., two of her friends arrived at the café with a sawed-off shotgun, a standard shotgun and a .32-cal. pistol. After forcing nine employees and two customers into a meat freezer and ordering them to kneel facing the wall, the gunmen began shooting. Three of the victims were killed; five were wounded. Franklin Freeman Jr., 22, Ricky Sanders, 25, and Carletha Stewart, 19, the fired waitress, all black, have been...
...handgun is sold in the U.S. every 13 seconds, adding 2 million a year to the nation's estimated arsenal of 55 million automatics and revolvers. That is one pistol for every four Americans. There is no dispute over these facts, but the endless debate over gun control, pro and con, is dominated by facile slogans, contradictory statistics and arguments that owe as much to passion as to reason. The only consensus is that the present patchwork of nearly 25,000 gun regulations-most at the state and local levels-is a costly, bothersome sham. Practically speaking, any person...