Word: uzi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President Clinton offered no regrets Monday to some 20,000 would-be assault weapon owners -- whose imported guns will remain tantalizingly out of reach as a result of today's executive order. And that, says the President, is just as it should be. "You don't need an Uzi to go deer hunting," he told a Rose Garden audience of crime-fighting officials. "You don't need an AK-47 to shoot skeet...
...First Class." I also knew that the riflery counselor, an ex-Marine named Leigh and a genuinely cool guy, was a member of the NRA. (Though even in my naivete I was a bit disturbed by his tendency to wear a T-shirt adorned with a picture of an Uzi and the phrase, "Peace through superior firepower...
...peoples in the Middle East. Netanyahu gives us faith that a new generation of Israeli-born Zionists will continue the legacy left by the Chalutzim. The far more realistic Likud party is committed to continuing their farming with a plow in one hand and, only if necessary, an Uzi in the other until the conditions of mutual respect are realized by all other Arab countries...
...years has been unable, after three years of looking, to find employment in this state. Nor can I afford a bodyguard to accompany me daily between here and my office at the Semitic Museum on the many occasions when I return home after sunset. Ought I to acquire an Uzi? --James R. Russell Mashtots Professor of Armernian Studies
Such a gadget would obviously improve on the current "is-it-an-Uzi-or-is-it-car-keys" standard of airport metal detectors. But Boyd anticipates a use beyond the doorway: mobile units costing less than $10,000 each that a cop could point out a car window and know who on a sidewalk is armed, before a gun is ever drawn. That, says social scientist James Q. Wilson, could "change the way we as a nation deal with guns...