Word: ruger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good. Every day he did not stay in the room. He came only in the nighttime." Bhakta charged $35 a night; Ferguson stayed three weeks. In retrospect, all he really needed was 15 days -- the time it took to clear his application to buy the 9-mm Ruger semiautomatic handgun he used last week on a rush-hour commuter train in New York...
...head. Like Grizzard and O'Neill, Ensign George P. Smith, 24, was a midshipman at Annapolis and was due to report for duty as an engineer aboard the U.S.S. Salt Lake City, a nuclear attack submarine. He shot himself in the right temple with a 9-mm Ruger handgun after apparently using the same weapon to kill Grizzard and O'Neill...
...office for insubordination. "Everybody said if he didn't get his job back, he was going to come in and shoot," postal worker Bob Cibulka said. "Everyone was talking about it." Last week the 31-year-old former Marine proved them right. Armed with a sawed-off .22- cal. Ruger Rimfire rifle, he entered the back sorting room of the 1940s- style office and killed his supervisor and the labor arbitrator who had turned down his appeal for reinstatement. In all, he murdered four and wounded five others, fatally shooting himself in the head. The shooting spree prompted an urgent...
...Gratia, who ignored his daughter's pleas and rose to confront the killer. As screams pierced the air, the gunman moved toward the crowded serving line and continued firing. Pausing only long enough to pack fresh clips into his two semiautomatic pistols -- a Glock 17 and a Ruger P-89 -- he worked his way methodically around the rectangular, beige-colored hall. Cool and deliberate, he felled most of his victims point- blank in the head or chest, sometimes reaching under tables where many diners had huddled and flattened themselves on the gray carpet...