Word: weaponeering
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...plates outside Perry, Oklahoma, 60 miles from Oklahoma City. When Oklahoma state trooper Charles Hanger noticed that McVeigh was wearing a shoulder harness bearing a Glock semiautomatic pistol, which turned out to be loaded with hollow-point bullets, the trooper arrested him on state charges of carrying a concealed weapon, driving without tags and driving without insurance. McVeigh was taken to the jail at the courthouse...
...McVeigh, already a loner, became increasingly frustrated. His politics veered far rightward. He claimed that the Army had implanted a computer chip in his buttocks. He was distraught over the 1993 destruction of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco and, about that time, bought a TEC-9 semiautomatic assault weapon, a gun banned by law last year. Those who knew him in Michigan said McVeigh was always armed. But Linda Haner-Mele, 35, his supervisor at a security company in the Niagara Falls area, where he worked briefly, insists to Time, "He was a follower, not a leader...
...Secret Service detail killed in the blast. This afternoon Clinton outlined his new anti-terrorism measures to Congress. They include hiring 1,000 new federal agents to deal with terrorist activity, allowing courts to approve a wider range of electronic surveillance, and making use of any form of chemical weapon a federal crime.The Oklahoma Explosion
...fact is, the Endangered Species Act has been used as a weapon in too many bitter environmental battles. It was the only legal artillery greens had, and it saved the bald eagle, now off the endangered list. Thus far, the spotted owl has saved remnants of old-growth forest. Earlier this year the endangered marbled murrelet, a seabird that nests in Northern California's old redwoods, won a lawsuit against the Pacific Lumber Co., with help from activists of the Environmental Protection Information Center. A federal judge granted a permanent injunction against logging Owl Creek. He rejected a claim that...
...campus skewered by identity politics, students say artistic performance can be used as a political weapon, a healing medium or an instrument of discussion and cultural exchange...