Republican Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito of Massachusetts signed a bill Friday, approved one day earlier by the state's Democrat - led Legislature, outlawing so - called bump stocks, accessories that allow semi-automatic firearms to mimic the rapid firing
action of machine guns.
Not exact matches
After the Las Vegas shooting, which left 58 people dead last October, there appeared to be bipartisan agreement to take some kind
of narrow legislative
action to ban bump stocks, an accessory that can effectively turn a semiautomatic rifle into a
machine gun.
-- was as powerful as they were; but during their lifetime they witnessed the introduction
of the repeat -
action rifle, the
machine gun, the airplane, the missile, and the atom bomb.
Think
of it, rather, as a violent
action picture, a routine summer bloodbath that, in a change
of pace, uses muskets instead
of machine guns and chain saws.
Moving away from the horror elements
of The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day is an all - out war
of car chases, fight scenes, shoot outs, nuclear explosions and a phenomenal, if gratuitous set piece where the Terminator blows up numerous police cars with a
machine gun for no other reason than the script required an
action beat.
Half
of the producing tandem behind the most testosterone - laden
action flicks, the name Jerry Bruckheimer has become synonymous with explosive pyrotechnics and
machine -
gun fire.
This isn't quite as classic or convincing (the special effects are limited to extreme close - ups
of grasshoppers matted into live
action footage or, even better, skittering up and sliding down photos
of Chicago skyscrapers) but where else can you see Peter Graves
machine -
gunning a giant grasshopper with teeth gritted as in a comic book drawing?
It is part an indictment
of the ludicrous mandatory sentence drug laws, and part dramatic thriller, while only delivering on one big
action scene late in the film involving Matthews trying to drive a semi containing a shipment
of cash through the border to Mexico, while trying to avoid men with
machine guns driving cars trying to take him down.
The blind, Force - worshipping warrior Chirrut Îmwe (Chinese martial arts
action star Donnie Yen) and his partner Baze Malbus (Jiang Wen), he
of the blaster
machine gun, make a pair straight out
of Hong Kong heroic bloodshed pictures.
Instead
of a brainless
action film, it plays out more like a propaganda piece for those who value the right to buy
machine guns over human lives.
The actor, who has played the role
of Hobbs for the last three entries in the long - running
action series, posted a picture
of himself in character holding a rather imposing
machine gun in what looks to be a chilly setting along with a rather NSFW caption.
Planet Terror is Robert Rodriguez's idea
of a fantasy drive - in movie: a scruffy, over-the-top zombie
action film starring Rose McGowan as a go - go dancer with a
machine gun leg.
The tidal wave
of action in the film's final act is rightly ridiculous at times (is anything more ridiculous than an ape riding a horse, brandishing
machine guns in both hands?)
The sharp,
machine -
gun blats
of the traction control in
action evoke the sound
of a Formula 1 car bouncing off its speed limiter as it bowls down pit lane.
Each playable character has a tailored momentum
action, ranging from a rake
of machine gun fire to a fast snap - shot with a pistol.
The story is done incredibly well, and the multiplayer Raid Mode is addictive, which will have you endlessly stocking a locker full
of guns that you've found along the way with various stats and upgrading them into the perfect killing
machines for your arsenal, like turning a bolt -
action sniper rifle into a chargeable burst - fire rail -
gun using upgradable weapon parts at your workbench.
Blip Blop 2002 One
of the best freeware
action games I've ever played, Blip & Blop is (as its own programmers admit) a clone
of Metal Slug: and the
machine gun is practically the same as the famous Neo Geo series.
The car brought the tank - like aspects
of the Batmobile from Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns into the live
action Batworld, being equipped with
machine guns, bombs, hooks, grapples, and jet propulsion.
We had similar experiences auditioning multiple
action scenes, including the absolutely immersive slag storm that erupts at the beginning
of Ridley Scott's The Martian, where we could almost feel each pelting grain against our skin, and the contained chaos
of Deadpool's highway battle scene, where revving car engines, tortured screams, and a hurricane
of machine gun fire swirled around our ears with impressive precision.