Sentences with phrase «of machine guns in»

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Mustard gas and the machine gun would become the hallmarks of a protracted war so brutal that many expected it to be history's last major conflict, a cataclysm that would make war appear too mutually destructive to merit a place in the modern world.

A 2013 inquest into the death of Michael «Mike» Maguire heard he was hit in the temple by a single bullet after live machine gun fire was wrongly directed inland towards the safe haven he was in.

When a rifle company spent a couple hours taking an enemy machine gun position, losing half of its hundred men in the process, the defenders would be killed in the end, perhaps finished off with bayonets, and everybody at the front understood this.

According to data collected by the Machine Gun Price Guide, which uses information from dealers, auctions and gun shows, the cost of a Tommy gun (the Thompson M1) went from about $ 9,000 in 2004 to almost $ 27,000 last July — a 200 percent increase.

Actual machine guns rarely figure in criminal acts, in part because buying one is such a burdensome, expensive and paperwork - heavy process.The National Firearms Act of 1934 slapped a $ 200 transfer tax on them, the equivalent of $ 3,773 in 2018 dollars.

Frank Goepfert is one of the biggest machine gun merchants in America.

This is the first time the president has weighed in on the issue, but the Justice Department announced they would look into bump stocks as part of a review process on the legal definition of machine guns following the Las Vegas shooting.

«We heard the bullets and we started running, in order to protect ourselves, they were machine - gun bursts,» a tourist from Mexico City told AFP of the incident, which Tijuana - based outlet Semanario Zeta captured on video:

Though the practice had been in use since the Korean War, Carlos Hathcock made the use of the M2.50 - caliber machine gun as a long - range sniper weapon a normal practice.

The wars of the current and future are being fought in cyberspace, rather than on the front lines holding a fully automatic machine gun.

Though older versions are technically legal to own, buy, and sell in many states, brand new «machine guns» — defined by law as a fully automatic weapon capable of firing more than one shot per trigger pull — have not been available for sale or purchase for civilian use in the United States since the Firearm Owners» Protection Act of 1986.

Law enforcement officials confirmed on Tuesday that 12 of the rifles in Paddock's hotel room were outfitted with a device called a «bump stock,» which enables semi-automatic weapons to shoot rapid fire, like a machine gun.

Government troops firing machine guns mounted on tanks stormed a rebellious town in central Syria before dawn Tuesday as part of military operations aimed at crushing the six - month - old uprising against President Bashar Assad.

In modern US building breaches, teams use a combination of M - 16s and SAWs (Standard Automatic Weapons), which replaced the M - 60 machine gun.

Maybe there could also be an image of Jesus & Allah facing each other — both with machine guns, grenades on their robe belt, bombs going of in the background along with dead bloodied bodies of women, children and men all around their feet.

We must «stand,» build a wall, patrol the campus with machine guns, and quarter our faculty in on - campus dorm rooms, for if they lived elsewhere they would bring the corruption of the outside world in to the students.

In my opinion as a gun owner I feel everyone whether its a fully automatic machine gun or a BB gun everyone should have to have a check to see if they have a mental illness that would prevent them from owning a gun and I would not have a problem having that done to me and when it comes down to evangelicals speaking out every child of GOD needs to be heard.

«For almost 50 years South Korean villagers have insisted that early in the Korean War, American soldiers machine - gunned hundreds of help less civilians under a railroad bridge near a ham - let 100 miles southeast of Seoul,» read a front - page article in the New York Times.

The selfsame word can at one time be the cornerstone of peace, while at another, machine - gun fire resounds in its every syllable.»

forty five in one hand and a machete in the other and a machine gun in front of him talking non sense about the government conspiracys..

If it were to be read in Hebrew, it comes across with the force of machine gun fire.

On May eighth the troops mercilessly shot the people at the door of the Cathedral with machine guns and secondly the national security forces machine - gunned a group of students in front of the Venezuelan Embassy.

We go to eat and see the terrorists up in the balcony of one of the dorms with hand grenades and machine guns.

In Algeria, where supporters of a fundamentalist insurgency have machine - gunned to death women who wait unveiled for a bus, Hassiba Boulmerka, the gold medalist in the 1,500 meters at the»92 Games, moves in a cordon of bodyguards and carries a.3In Algeria, where supporters of a fundamentalist insurgency have machine - gunned to death women who wait unveiled for a bus, Hassiba Boulmerka, the gold medalist in the 1,500 meters at the»92 Games, moves in a cordon of bodyguards and carries a.3in the 1,500 meters at the»92 Games, moves in a cordon of bodyguards and carries a.3in a cordon of bodyguards and carries a.38.

Where desperate miners tossed random sticks of dynamite and farmers blockaded roads, and the 190th attempted coup in the last 160 years might be one burst of rhetoric or machine - gun fire away?

Glenn's introduction to «the healing powers of water» occurred in 1970, when as a Cobra gunship copilot in Vietnam he was hit by a.30 caliber machine - gun slug that passed through his left leg and severed the femoral vein.

He was on top of a Humvee leading the scout platoon, returning fire with a.50 - cal machine gun when he was shot in the head.

There are nine bullet holes in it, all made by Weatherby bullets, alongside a number of dents and smears made by other hunting bullets and even by a.50 caliber machine - gun slug and a.30 - 06 «armor - piercing» bullet.

Barney Ronay, in The Guardian, described it like this: «To the billionaire, sport, with all its glorious uncertainty, is something to be tamed and killed, machine - gunned with money, until even the grandest football club begins to resemble some stretched and burnished trophy wife, muzzled beneath a paste of high - end slap and stitch.»

Already, the lawless void in southern Libya is spreading chaos to other parts of North Africa: weapons such as RPGs, Semtex explosives, assault rifles, antiaircraft machine guns, and grenades have moved from the chaotic remnants of Libya's revolution to the incipient one in Mali, which is currently riven by an Islamist insurgency.

Also, «I love the smell of machine - gun bacon in the morning.

New York's Democratic lawmakers and gun - control advocates have won an important new ally in their effort to push a legislative ban of bump stocks, which turn semi-automatic rifles into virtual machine guns: Acting ATF Director Thomas Brandon.

In his book Modern India 1885 - 1947, the Indian historian Sumit Sarkar wrote: «As early as August 15, Linlithgow had ordered the use of «machine - gunning from air» against crowds disrupting communications around Patna, and aeroplanes were used also in Bhagalpur and Monghyr in Bihar, Nadia and Tamluk in Bengal, and Talcher in Orissa.&raquIn his book Modern India 1885 - 1947, the Indian historian Sumit Sarkar wrote: «As early as August 15, Linlithgow had ordered the use of «machine - gunning from air» against crowds disrupting communications around Patna, and aeroplanes were used also in Bhagalpur and Monghyr in Bihar, Nadia and Tamluk in Bengal, and Talcher in Orissa.&raquin Bhagalpur and Monghyr in Bihar, Nadia and Tamluk in Bengal, and Talcher in Orissa.&raquin Bihar, Nadia and Tamluk in Bengal, and Talcher in Orissa.&raquin Bengal, and Talcher in Orissa.&raquin Orissa.»

'' The use of bump stocks is currently illegal in New York, but we would support legislation that builds upon our strongest in the nation gun safety laws and further restricts possession of these deadly killing machines,» says Rich Azzopardi.

In 2006, Martin Narey, the former director general of the prison service, claimed that Blunkett had once told him to use the army and machine guns, to deal with rioting prisoners.

«We would support legislation that builds upon our strongest in the nation gun safety laws and further restricts possession of these deadly killing machines,» said spokesman Rich Azzopardi.

In the first such attack for more than a decade, a van reportedly pulled up outside the Massereene army base, 16 miles north of Belfast, and men armed with automatic machine guns opened fire.

You are not in favor of selling surplus machine guns over the counter are you?

Another measure would ban the possession of bump stocks, the devices that convert semi-automatic weapons into virtual machine guns, and were used to kill 58 people in Las Vegas last year.

The State Legislature passed a law in 1931 that said «a person who sells or keeps for sale, or offers, or gives, or disposes of any instrument or weapon of the kind usually known as a machine - gun to any person is guilty of a felony.»

Worsening the situation or giving credence to this thesis is the fact that President Buhari has not been forceful and proactive in dealing with these reckless killings of powerless people whose territories they always invaded with dangerous machine guns.

Shkreli is accused of providing «clean» checks to launder money for Andre Veliu, who's also named in a July 26 indictment for allegedly selling the rocket launcher and machine guns.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives announced in December that it was reviewing whether weapons using bump stocks should be considered illegal machine guns under federal law.

Their critics say the weapons are just the latest in a long line of lethal inventions that have increased man's brutality to man — successors to the Maxim automatic machine gun, the flame thrower, and mustard gas.

For instance, local officials lured large numbers of Tutsis to a school near the town of Murambi, where Hutu militias used machine guns, explosives and other weapons to kill more than 40,000 people in just three days.

«It involves standing in front of a quantum machine gun,» he says.

«There are automatic guns in the demilitarized zone that can target and fire without human decision,» says Colin Allen, a cognitive scientist at Indiana University and coauthor of Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right From Wrong.

This is my latest one ------------------------------------ I like being the weird older guy in the gym who wears five - fingers and does handstands, chin ups and pistol squats, while all the younger lads are checking out their guns in the mirror between sets of shoulder presses on the Smith machine and shrugs on the squat rack.

Instead of seeing guys with machine guns, research labs, and a robot suit as the final bad guy, we get ninjas, a mad scientist, actual Japanese - American actor Brian Tee as Shredder, and mutant monster bad guys in the form of Bebop and Rocksteady, classic TMNT enemies.

just anther dog of war, not much to say, im stuck in ft irwin ca, im from maine, used to be a heavy machine gunner, now im a team leader i love to smoke and drink, and im rough around the edges, but im a nice guy who loves dogs guns and excitment