Word: marksmanship
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Timothy Dwight fell short of the mark on its first shot and had no chance against the superior marksmanship exhibited by the Crimson...
...incident, claims he called the local police only to be told, "John is just an eccentric. I've known him 40 years." And in fact Du Pont, an accomplished shooter who once competed in the pentathlon (a five-event competition that includes swimming, riding, shooting, running and fencing), taught marksmanship to the police force for years and has since bought equipment for the force and helped train their dogs. "He was a friend of the police department," says retired police chief Stan Short...
...laws were full of opportunities for making felony cases against otherwise solid citizens accustomed to America's wide-open gun trade. At the same time, the arrival of serious gun control in the 1968 Gun Control Act radicalized the N.R.A., prompting the association to shift its emphasis from promoting marksmanship to gutting the act and harrying the enforcers. In 1980 the N.R.A. produced a film, It Can't Happen Here, in which Representative John Dingell of Michigan, then a member of the N.R.A.'s board of directors, states, "If I were to select a jackbooted group of fascists...
...danger of its $2.5 million riflery program, the government continues to aid its domestic adversaries by providing extremist groups with cheap weapons, free bullets and Army training facilities. Despite some futile battles in Congress to eliminate the program, it has existed unchecked since its establishment in 1903, when American marksmanship in the Spanish-American War was deemed terribly below standard. The program itself was designed for a blameless purpose then--but that was 92 years ago. Today, such a program is ludicrous, especially since the end of a Cold War that never led to open conflict. What, then, will...
Police believe the shooter was a professional. He had studied Kunimatsu's movements and chosen his time carefully. But it was the assailant's marksmanship that most clearly separated his act from that of a rank amateur. At a distance of more than 65 ft., he fired four times and did not miss once, putting bullets through Kunimatsu's leg, chest and abdomen even as the police chief crumpled to the ground. Then the gunman hopped on a bicycle and disappeared...