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McVeigh was obsessed with guns. He often kept a 9-mm Glock pistol in the barracks with him -- not locked up in the arms room, as rules require. His personal arsenal, including a Czech machine gun and assorted pistols, shotguns and rifles, was stashed in the trunk of his car. Still, neither Littleton nor Guild would have pegged McVeigh as a terrorist. "Something happened to Tim McVeigh between the time he left the Army and now," Guild says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOMETHING BIG IS GOING TO HAPPEN | 5/8/1995 | See Source »

...hour and 20 minutes after the bombing, McVeigh was pulled over for driving without license plates outside Perry, Oklahoma, 60 miles from Oklahoma City. When Oklahoma state trooper Charles Hanger noticed that McVeigh was wearing a shoulder harness bearing a Glock semiautomatic pistol, which turned out to be loaded with hollow-point bullets, the trooper arrested him on state charges of carrying a concealed weapon, driving without tags and driving without insurance. McVeigh was taken to the jail at the courthouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIMOTHY MCVEIGH AND HIS RIGHT-WING ASSOCIATES: WHO ARE THEY? | 5/1/1995 | See Source »

...naked man rose out of the water, shocked Harry into unconsciousness and took the money. This outlandish story turns out to be true, and the naked man turns out to be Johnny Destiny. And, since that night, Harry has been waiting for Destiny's return with a large pistol and a pair of "non-conductive," rubber-soled boots...

Author: By Benjamin Cavell, | Title: 'Destiny' in Vegas? | 4/27/1995 | See Source »

...apartment last Wednesday morning, just after 8:25. As usual, he took the elevator down to the lobby, met his aide and started to walk across the tiled entry toward his chauffered car. At that moment, a gunman hiding behind a utility pole opened fire with a .38-cal. pistol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANOTHER SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM | 4/10/1995 | See Source »

...party, he meets up with a despondent James, who kills the Gaskells' dog with the pistol he brought to use on himself. He also manages to make off with Walter's prized possession, the jacket worn by Marilyn Monroe at her wedding to Joe DiMaggio. Throw in the fact that Grady's wife left him that morning, and that Sara has just revealed that she is pregnant with his child, and you have a pair with some serious problems...

Author: By Adam Kirsch, | Title: Chabon's Wonder Boys Romps Through the Absurd | 4/6/1995 | See Source »

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