Word: weaponizing
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...Thompson machine gun, or so-called "submachine gun," was perfected some time ago and adopted by many a city police force as well as the U. S. Marines. It weighs only ten pounds, which is 100% lighter than any other weapon of similar functions. It fires 100 shots per minute and is valued for spraying death into a city street or narrow mountain defile. U. S. gangsters as well as police admire and use Thompson submachine guns. They are fired from the hip or from a rest on boulder, windowsill or automobile tonneau...
...bullet no bigger round than a seed-pearl would kill a man if projected through his heart, brain or spinal cord. But martial experience has found 30/100 of an inch to be about the ideal diameter for man-killing bullets. The prize-winning Thompson weapon is .30 calibre...
Local magistrates at Winnipeg recently warned weapon-toters to expect stiffer sentences. Last week one Herbert Weston and one Andrew Wood, both convicted of "toting," were sentenced to "two years imprisonment and to receive six lashes from a heavy whip...
...Cardinal Gasparri, the Papal Secretary of State. These two statesmen were in perfect accord, some months ago, when L'Action Française and all other works of its editors were placed on the Catholic Index Expurgatorius. Still more were they in accord, last week, when the dread weapon of excommunication was drawn against the incorrigible Royalists...
Just at present few can see any great danger of a Red invasion, and the overthrow of government by radicals of extreme doctrines. Much more urgent a matter is the policy of the opposite party, which, under the guise of protecting defenceless America from pernicious Reds, wields a powerful weapon of reaction. The same group of Bolshevik-bailers that backs the closing of Ford Hall Forum lists such names as Dean Pound, Professor Bliss Perry, and the presidents of Smith and Mt. Holyoke as dangerous, and closes to them lecture platforms in towns and clubs where the black list...