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Trust in the government’s explanation was particularly low after one leading government official Sunday blamed the 10 deaths on “accidental” machine gun fire...
...National Rifle Association has long held that the combination of gun safety education and parental involvement is key to keeping kids safe around firearms. Now, a new study from a controversial researcher suggests that those generally acknowledged defenses are not enough to stop young boys from picking up, examining and even firing guns they stumble upon...
...observation room with a desk - in which researchers hid a pair of water pistols and one .38-caliber semiautomatic handgun. (The real weapon was empty - although rigged to feel loaded - and was wired to gauge whether the force placed on the trigger was enough to fire the gun). The boys, who were paired up with one or two friends, were told they should wait there for their parents. Researchers also told the boys they could leave the room at any time to ask questions or call for help...
Flashdance was the first collaboration between Bruckheimer and Simpson, a former Paramount executive. Beverly Hills Cop and Top Gun made them legends. Also legendary was Simpson's voracious appetite for drugs. "You knew it was coming," says Bruckheimer of his partner's 1996 overdose. "It's amazing that he lived as long as he did." Simpson had been considered the duo's creative force, but since his death, Bruckheimer has proved himself with low-budget winners and big-budget blockbusters. Last year he pulled in nearly $280 million at domestic theaters with Gone in Sixty Seconds, Coyote Ugly and Remember...
...always felt under the gun because I was a scholarship student," Nenneman says...