Word: rifleman
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...slope. Suddenly, from high above, comes a familiar, chilling whine. "Incoming!" someone yells, and the leatherneck flattens himself in the mud. The artillery shell bursts 50 yards from him, gouging out a small crater through the slime. A breeze wafts away the cloud of smoke and detritus, the rifleman listens for a moment and then stands up. "Man!" he exclaims, scraping mud from his caked body. "This just must be the worst place in the world...
McNamara "are touting the Communist line" against guns-a ridiculous notion-we clearly indicated that the Communists jumped on the anti-gun bandwagon. Contrary to your implication that The American Rifleman accepts ads for "submachine guns, silencers, antitank guns, cannon and Nazi insignia," it steadfastly rejects all such advertising. Submachine guns and silencers, by the way, are illegal under U.S. gun laws that the NRA helped to pass...
...American Rifleman Washington...
...most restrained of the gun magazines until Ashley Halsey Jr., 58, became editor last year, Rifleman is now the leading crusader against gun controls. Halsey, a South Carolinian who was an editor of the Saturday Evening Post for 18 years, runs articles in every issue lauding the man with a gun. The July issue, which contains an admiring account of the military sniper throughout history, arrived in the mail just as snipers began shooting in the ghettos. Halsey has also expanded a regular feature called "The Armed Citizen," which reports the derring-do of shopkeepers and housewives who have gunned...
...bill will result in confiscation of all arms. During the hearings on his bill, Dodd charged Guns & Ammo Publisher Thomas Siatos with "maliciously misrepresenting" the bill. Siatos replied that he was merely "editorializing." Nonetheless, the gun magazines feel aggrieved at their treatment by some of the press. The American Rifleman plans to establish a $3,000 scholarship for some young journalist who will document the press distortions on the subject of guns...