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9-11	December 2006 Notebook/Article Loaded By Garret Keizer SEE ALSO: Civil disobedience; Firearms; Gun control PDF IMAGES
59-66	December 2005 Article The line is hot: A history of the machine gun, shot By Steve Featherstone SEE ALSO: Firearms; Firearms industry and trade; Machine guns; Private collections PDF IMAGES
20-22	July 2005 Readings/Article Travels with Charlie By Jack Valenti SEE ALSO: Firearms; Steinbeck, John; Military weapons; Shooting, Military; Views on military weapons PDF IMAGES
57-65	October 1999 Article Your Constitution is killing you: A reconsideration of the right to bear arms By Daniel Lazare SEE ALSO: Amendments; Firearms; Gun control; United States. Constitution PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
20	July 1999 Readings/Article Smith & Wesson's artful dodge By Kevin G. Foley SEE ALSO: Firearms; Firearms industry and trade; Locks PDF IMAGES
12	August 1996 Readings/Article Judge Ito goes shopping By Lance A. Ito SEE ALSO: Correspondence; Firearms; Ito, Lance A.; Los Angeles PDF IMAGES
31-32	January 1993 Readings/Article . . . And a cartridge in a pear tree By Dick Metcalf SEE ALSO: Christmas gifts; Firearms; Firearms ownership PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
45-51	May 1992 Article A loaded question: What is it about Americans and guns? By Leonard Kriegel SEE ALSO: Firearms; Shooting PDF IMAGES
20	June 1991 Readings/Article Now, give me my handgun SEE ALSO: Firearms PDF IMAGES
20	January 1990 Readings/Article Choose your weapon SEE ALSO: Firearms; Slang PDF IMAGES
21-24	November 1987 Readings/Article Praise Madison and pass the ammunition SEE ALSO: Firearms; United States Constitution Bicentennial, 1987-1991 PDF IMAGES
28-35	April 1976 Article A violent majority By Stephen Darst SEE ALSO: Career as legislator; Firearms; Gun control; Saint Louis; Darst, Stephen PDF IMAGES
111	April 1975 Wraparound/Article Making connections By Lawrence S. Burns SEE ALSO: Firearms; Weapons PDF IMAGES
62-68	December 1964 Article A forgotten lesson of the assassination By Carl Bakal SEE ALSO: Firearms; Gun control; National Rifle Association; Powers and duties; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
796-799	October 1911 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: Cocaine; Firearms PDF IMAGES
158	June 1893 Editor's drawer/Article Dogberry in Texas By John Gilmer Speed SEE ALSO: Firearms; Railroad bridges; Railroad construction workers PDF IMAGES
640	March 1878 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Firearms; Salt Lake City; Utah PDF IMAGES
316	January 1871 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Firearms; Potomac River; Waterfowl shooting PDF IMAGES
540-541	March 1866 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Debates and debating; Firearms PDF IMAGES
850	May 1860 Our foreign bureau/Article Our foreign bureau SEE ALSO: Firearms; Whitworth, Joseph PDF IMAGES
458-469	March 1855 Article Ancient and modern artillery SEE ALSO: Artillery; Firearms; Ordnance PDF IMAGES

Dec 2004	Number of overseas bullet suppliers the U.S. Army contracted with last year and this year, respectively : 1,5	Harper's Index Source: Program Executive Office for Ammunition (Picatinny Arsenal, N.J.)
Nov 2004	Maximum number of rounds a semi-automatic rifle may hold to be considered legal in New Jersey : 15	Harper's Index Source: Evan F. Nappen (Eatontown, N.J.)
Nov 2004	Maximum number allowed by the recently lifted federal ban on assault rifles : 10	Harper's Index Source: Evan F. Nappen (Eatontown, N.J.)
Oct 2004	Number of American states in which one may legally shoot fish with a semi-automatic rifle : 2	Harper's Index Source: The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department (Waterbury)
May 2004	Days after Smith & Wesson Holding appointed a chairman last winter that he resigned over old armed-robbery convictions : 38	Harper's Index Source: Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. (Scottsdale, Ariz.)/Michigan Dept. of Corrections (Lansing)
May 2004	Caliber of his first gun, a Smith & Wesson used for armed robbery : .38	Harper's Index Source: James Minder (Scottsdale)
Oct 2000	Number of Colt revolvers that a Texas judge repaired during jury selection in a capital-murder trial last fall: 2	Harper's Index Source: State Commission on Judicial Conduct (Austin, Tex.)
Aug 2000	Number of semiautomatic paint-ball rifles ordered by the LAPD in preparation for this month's Democratic convention: 40	Harper's Index Source: Los Angeles Police Department
Jan 2000	Chances that one of the 49 armed conflicts fought worldwide since 1990 relied exclusively on small arms: 9 in 10	Harper's Index Source: Center for Defense Information (Washington)
Jan 2000	Years after Portuguese adventurers brought guns to Japan in 1543 that Japan owned more guns than any other country: 57	Harper's Index Source: Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel
Nov 1999	Estimated portion of annual spending on the treatment of gunshot wounds that comes from the federal government: 1/2	Harper's Index Source: Sanford Institute of Public Policy (Durham, N.C.)
Nov 1999	Estimated tons of depleted-uranium from bullets fired in the Gulf War that are still scattered across the battlefields: 320	Harper's Index Source: International Action Center (N.Y.C.)
Sep 1999	Percentage of white Pennsylvania men denied gun ownership between 1778 and 1789 for refusing a state loyalty oath: 40	Harper's Index Source: Prof. Saul Cornell, Ohio State University (Columbus)
Oct 1998	Number of assault weapons the Defense Department gave away to foreign governments last year: 50,000	Harper's Index Source: Federation of American Scientists (Washington)
Sep 1998	Average number of public school students expelled each school day last year for gun possession: 34	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Department of Education
Sep 1998	Chance that a police officer killed in the line of duty in the last ten years was shot with his own gun: 1 in 6	Harper's Index Source: National Institute of Justice/FBI (Washington)

September 30, 2004	A new homeland security blimp was seen flying around in Washington, D.C., and the House of Representatives voted to overturn Washington's 27-year-old ban on handguns.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: New York Times
September 16, 2004	The federal ban on assault weapons expired.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: New York Times
May 27, 2004	and police in Philadelphia found some children playing with a bazooka.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: WPVI TV Philadelphia
April 11, 2004	Children in Flint, Michigan, found two loaded pistols during an Easter egg hunt.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: Flint Journal
April 10, 2004	A federal air marshall left her loaded pistol on a shelf in a public restroom at the Cleveland, Ohio, airport near gate C-3; a passenger found the gun and immediately contacted the proper authorities.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer
March 30, 2004	An Australian inventor created an electronic gun that can fire one million rounds per minute.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: Australian IT
February 18, 2003	Smith & Wesson introduced its biggest handgun ever, a .50-caliber Magnum powerful enough to bring down a charging bear.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge
December 11, 2001	Attorney General John Ashcroft testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which had summoned him to explain his dubious anti-terrorism tactics. “To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty,” he said, “my message is this: your tactics only aid terrorists.” He also accused his critics of giving “ammunition to America's enemies.” The attorney general went on to defend his refusal to compromise the right of potential terrorists to keep and bear arms.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge

845-850	November 1900 Fiction The forgiveness of Creegan By Cyrus Townsend Brady SEE ALSO: Firearms; Western stories PDF IMAGES
328	January 1895 Editor's drawer/Fiction The art of self-defence By W.J. (William James) Henderson SEE ALSO: Boxing; Firearms; Missourians; Montana; Western stories PDF IMAGES

PAGE MISSING 686	October 1920 Editor's drawer/Joke Busy Bertha SEE ALSO: Firearms; Great Britain. Army; Women travelers PDF IMAGES
416	August 1920 Editor's drawer/Joke The one she got SEE ALSO: Burglars; Examination of witnesses; Firearms; Self-defense for women; Wounds and injuries PDF IMAGES

29	June 2008 Readings/Photo Untitled recoil By Greg Stimac (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Firearms; Public use; Shooting; Target practice PDF IMAGES

21	November 2000 Readings/Illustration The porcelain war museum project By Charles Krafft SEE ALSO: Firearms; Porcelain PDF IMAGES

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