Word: rifleman
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...N.R.A. has eased its stand against the banning of Saturday night specials, it has managed to squelch any legislation with teeth. When the N.R.A. objected to a recent CBS television documentary on hunting, all except one sponsor-Block Drug Co.-canceled out, and CBS ran a sequel giving the rifleman's point of view. The N.R.A. takes pride in its nationwide programs, which offer instruction in the proper use of firearms and safety in hunting. Nevertheless, the N.R.A. is too soft on gun control for some gun supporters. They have formed the National Citizens Committee for the Right...
...they deserve a chew." A pert stewardess plunked down $500 to "harvest" her first buffalo; then she pointed to the hoofs: "Jim, did I want those for footstools?" In the program's grossest scene, a languorous fallow deer was shot seven times at pointblank range; then a burly rifleman grasped the antlers for his mandatory macho snapshot...
...limousine appears in one of the frames, number 413. Although it is impossible to see him at normal film speed, or even when just viewing the single frame, a blow up enlarging the corner of the frame to the size of the entire screen shows clearly that the rifleman is no illusion. He appears to be in a prone position, wearing a small hat. We are almost directly in back of him, slightly to his left, as if to be looking over his shoulder...
Massachusetts, which already has some of the strictest licensing and registration laws in the country, has gotten so much of this attention that even the American Rifleman Magazine, the mouthpiece of the NRA, last spring called Boston the "center" of a growing movement bent on doing away with the right to bear arms by attacking gun owners at the state level...
...craft's prime target will be snipers in high places. In fact, Sheriff Mel Bailey, 50, first considered building a remotely piloted vehicle (RPV as he dubs it) after a lone rifleman terrorized New Orleans last year from the roof of a motel. As Bailey explains it: "Criminals often seek a high vantage point. We have ground equipment to return fire, but so often you have to stay distant, which only extends the problem over a long period of time." With the RPV, Bailey plans to strike fast: drop a smoke bomb via remote control, blind the sniper, then...