Word: firearm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mixed Bag. In Taree, Australia, bitten in the arm by a snake, Charles Peters plugged his arm with a rifle to make it bleed, was fined for carrying a firearm on Sunday...
...many surrenders as possible, De Henriquez snapped up thousands of small arms, plus three bridges, seven airplanes, four small submarines, eight ships, three armored trains, several concrete pillboxes, and a two-ton unexploded aerial bomb that he defused himself. His current collection includes almost every conceivable kind of military firearm of the past 500 years, an "iron maiden" and other torture instruments, 20 old castles and forts scattered across Italy...
...Hazel Ferguson, irked at her husband for joining a late night card party, stalked into the game with pistol in hand, fired a shot into the floor, lined up the players against the wall, marched her errant husband home at gunpoint, next day was fined $25 for discharging a firearm within the city limits...
Atom Cannon. In Manhattan, although police testified that two patrolmen were knocked to the ground when Howard Simms's pistol accidentally discharged as one of them tried to unhook it from his belt, the court found Simms innocent of carrying a firearm, concluded the cops "must have been leaning pretty far over when they were knocked down," gave the defendant back his 1-in.-long...
...says he controls almost 30,000 men but is quick to concede that only one in three has a firearm. His artillery consists of a few dozen mortars and 75 mm. cannon, but he has almost no ammunition. "We have done no plundering," he said. "We have really been fighting Communists." The general admits that his people levy "dues on visiting businessmen," but these are opium smugglers, he says offhandedly, and they expect...