Word: weaponeering
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...gunsmoke is blowing." Until he began preparing a presidential run, Bush's position on most gun-control measures had been clear: he was against them. He signed a bill permitting Texans to carry concealed handguns, and he opposes compelling gun retailers to include child safety locks with every weapon they sell, putting him to the right of many Senate Republicans. And in the next two weeks Bush plans to sign into law a bill forbidding local governments in Texas to sue gun manufacturers--a law opponents call "the N.R.A. protection...
...Thaci's AK-47 is one of the few weapons the rebels have. In other "battalions" as many as five K.L.A. soldiers will share a single weapon. It helps that when they took the barrack, the K.L.A. captured stores of ammunition, light and heavy mortars and Austrian-made trucks. But the rebel army is still struggling to get the basic supplies it needs to fight...
...sanest teenager isn't militia material. Gun ownership should not start until age 21, and it should require a background check at every purchase point, and a waiting period. Just as no one has a right to a machine gun, no one should have a right to a semiautomatic weapon, or a gun that can be altered to become one. Of course guns should have safety locks...
...playing with blockbuster material. Known as "legacy codes," the 100 or so calculations that he put on his hard drive contained a gold mine of nuclear secrets--reams of physics equations and weapon-test results and warhead designs--painstakingly amassed by the U.S. since the government began building atom bombs at Los Alamos a half-century ago. When Energy Department officials discovered in March that a mid-level scientist had copied programs from the prized database, they were chagrined. That the scientist was the Taiwanese-born Lee, the same one fired on March 8 amid fears that he might already...
...government may not be talking about this, but Hollywood is," she said. "Go to the movies, and the bad guys are some breakaway Soviet republic with some horrible weapon...The popular culture is permeated with this...