Sentences with phrase «of the rifle taken»

Police released a photo of the rifle taken from the restaurant attacker, which appears to be an AR - 15, a weapon commonly used by mass shooters in the US.

Not exact matches

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.

Accurate to 500 metres, and capable of firing armour - piercing rounds, these rifles can help take out pirates long before they make it to your ship.

Instead of using a SWAT officer with a sniper rifle to take out a mass shooter or terrorist, Smith says drones equipped with Tasers could be used.

Seeing the need for someone to give covering fire from a pile of stones where the BAR gunner had fallen, Scardino abandoned his rifle and took up the light machine gun himself.

«I absolutely believe that in this country if you are 18 years of age, you should not be able to buy a rifle, and I will support a law that takes that right away,» Rubio said, making the comments during a CNN town hall in Florida.

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.

«I absolutely believe that in this country if you are 18 years of age, you should not be able to buy a rifle, and I will support a law that takes that right away,» Rubio said at CNN's town hall in Florida.

Instead of taking a shotgun approach, you must use a high - powered sniper rifle.

A federal ban on the manufacture of certain rifles deemed to be «assault weapons» took effect in 1994, and the list of covered rifles included the AR - 15.

The destruction of the rifles Dick's currently has on hand will take place at distribution centers.

He drove to the scene, put on a bulletproof vest, grabbed his rifle, and «ran toward the east door of» the 1200 building, where the shooting took place, according to his report.

A memorial banner with an image of a rifle and a red circle and slash mark over it had been taken down, along with poignant mementos like teddy bears and poems, deputies said.

When he was 12, he and a pal packed up their old pirogue (literally...) dog, and.22 rifle, a few stores and camping supplies, and their parents were fine with the pair of them taking off in the boat for a week or ten days of knocking about the bayous.

The run on purchasing assault rifles in the past two weeks is a clear indication of what we trust to take care of us.

Only by reducing the love affair Americans have with guns can we start to reduce the macho gun owner mentality (and I know many gun owners... most are hunters, and I have no issue with that, but no deer was ever so formidable that anyone ever needed an assault rifle to take it down (and I've caught wild turkey with nothing but snare traps) People get up in arms caliming their rights are violated when some law limits guns, but that does not remove the right to bear arms, simply limits it to reason within the spirit of the amendment.

This discussion should be about expanding that ban to include other «assault» type weapons and weapons of war and has nothing to do with every fundiots fear of having their rifle taken away.

Contemporary warfare has in fact taken the form of local conflicts, more often than not civil wars, in which no great alliances of nations are involved; these have been wars fought for reasons based in local rivalries, typically inflamed by historical animosities, ethnic disparity, or religious difference, rather than for reasons of global Realpolitik; they have been fought not with nuclear weapons (or, indeed, other types of weapons of mass - destructive capability) or the latest in military technology, but instead with conventional weaponry, often of old design, and often limited to rifles, knives, grenades, and light, crew - served weapons which individual soldiers can carry on their persons.

The event was seen as hugely insensitive in the wake of the Parkland shootings, in which a gunman used a weapon similar to the AR - 15 rifle to take 17 lives and was protested by members of the community.

I worry about righteous parking, and I let the assault rifles take care of themselves.

So we took out our rifles and shot «em full of holes until the water went in and sunk «em.»

And so the list goes, with the actual numbers changing somewhat from year to year, yet the fact that more people are killed with blunt objects each year remains constant.For example, in 2011, there was 323 murders committed with a rifle but 496 murders committed with hammers and clubs.While the FBI makes is clear that some of the «murder by rifle» numbers could be adjusted up slightly, when you take into account murders with non-categorized types of guns, it does not change the fact that their annual reports consistently show more lives are taken each year with these blunt objects than are taken with Feinstein's dreaded rifle.Another interesting fact: According to the FBI, nearly twice as many people are killed by hands and fists each year than are killed by murderers who use rifles.

That meant packing a cooler and a blanket, setting up on a lawn of some sort, and have a home cooked dinner while watching famous singers and songwriters perform, watching a military tattoo perform a rifle drill, or take a walk through a historical park.

The pessimists had other arguments, one of them being John Lesher, a junior guard from Delaware who does not take a shot unless his West Virginia teammates put the long rifle to his head.

You should have said yeah sure yous should do the same, why don't yas take your top goalscoring threat out of midfield so yous wont have to watch him beat two or three men before rifling the back of net.

Hull took the lead on eight minutes when former Spurs midfielder Jake Livermore rifled a low drive into the bottom corner of Hugo Lloris's goal.

James Forrest cut in from the left and picked out Ritchie who took a touch before rifling a left - foot shot into the top left - hand corner of the net with Fabianski stranded.

«The practical thing that we can do right now, if we are willing, to take on the corporate gun lobby is close what some people call the «terror gap,»» she said of Orlando shooter Omar Mateen's ability to obtain an assault - style rifle used to carry out Sunday's mass killing.

Osama, according to the police also confessed that Melaye gave them bag containing one AK47 rifle, two Pump Action guns and the N430, 000.00 to take care of other members of the gang.

Authorities say Cruz, 19, was a former student at Stoneman Douglas who had been expelled, had mental health issues and had been reported to law enforcement before he used a legally purchased semiautomatic rifle to take the lives of 17 people on Wednesday.

He said while Owori was killed at Bossy Waters along Tombia - Amassoma Road on January 19, 2014, Ekeiweri of the Department of Operations, Yenagoa was killed on November 24, 2014, after which they took away his Assault rifle 06 with breech number 0702754330 and 30 rounds of ammunition.

At New York City's five major zoos — one in each borough — a cache of rifles, revolvers and dart guns are kept at the ready, and specially trained marksmen are prepared to take out ferocious animals in case a human life is at risk.

«Because you have a lot of judges... you have city court judges, county court judges, village, town judges throughout the state... many are rural and some may not want to take someone's hunting rifle away from them.»

The law will also require the courts to notify law enforcement to take away «firearms, rifles and shotguns» upon a judgement of conviction of a felony or serious offense.

Confirming the incident, Anambra State Police Commissioner said the gunmen took a rifle belonging to the policeman that was killed in the gun duel with the policemen at the Assemblies of God Church in Oguta in Onitsha.

(ABC News) Dick's Sporting Goods Inc., one of the largest retailers of its kind in the United States, is taking new steps to curtail the sale of firearms in its 700 - plus stores, including ending sales of assault - style rifles and banning the sale of guns to people younger than 21, the company...

Just make sure you don't get taken advantage of — like the sports science student who took an internship at Chelsea Football Club only to be accidently shot with an air rifle by player Ashley Cole.

There are chases, there are telescopic rifles, there are cliffs (probably located in Morocco where much of «Revenge» is filmed) which make handy places for an insulted guy to take revenge for being not somebody's type.

Soldiers with drawn rifles chase residents of a commune into a gathering place to scan them; two teen boys and a teen girl subdue three soldiers and take their rifles from them, escaping, and we see scuffling and fistfights, but no injuries.

In Morocco, a boy accidentally shoots an American woman, Susan (Cate Blanchett), in the neck from atop a mountain, leaving her husband, Bill (Brad Pitt), to scramble for medical assistance; back in America, Amelia (Adrianna Barraza), takes Susan and Bill's children to Mexico for a wedding but runs into trouble with border police when trying to return to San Diego; and, over in Tokyo, Chieko (Rinko Kikuchi), the deaf - mute daughter of an amateur hunter, Yasujiro (Kôji Yakusho), who sold his rifle to the Moroccan boy's father, begins to unravel after too many boys reject her advances.

One was a master - scythe called the «Grim Reaper» that could clear out a crowd of walkers in seconds, while the other was a shotgun / assault combo rifle that could take down just about anything at range.

There are various soul - inhabiting ghosts swirling around, notably that of a Confederate soldier whose brothers were taken from him by Union soldiers bearing a forerunner of the famed Winchester repeating action rifle.

Combat in ReCore even has a tinge of what Metroid Prime brought to the table, as players can either free - aim or lock - on with Joule's rifle to enemies and take them out efficiently, with a combo system in place to boost players» scores and experience gain by chaining together enemy take - downs.

On paper, the plot of this movie makes very little sense: two men who only wear suits and never take off their sunglasses, neo-Nazis, a grown man named «Duck,» Cab Calloway, a Catholic nun on the verge of eviction, Carrie Fisher with an assault rifle, and the entire Illinois state police department.

If I take out my sniper rifle I become rooted to the spot and L1 becomes your aim button instead of R1.

Her legacy is a mansion that took shape over 38 years of continuous construction... because she believed the ghosts of people killed by Winchester rifles wanted her do it.

A beautifully complex film about why we fight, Howard Hawks's WWI heart - stirrer comes from the diary of Alvin York, a poor Tennessean and religious pacifist who nonetheless took up a rifle and became an ace marksman.

Moments later actress Naomie Harris is seen taking aim through a rifle sight as Bond grapples on the roof of a speeding train, with M telling her to «take the bloody shot».

He carried several weapons including an automatic rifle with over 300 rounds of ammunition, enough to take out nearly all of the passengers on that route.

(There are more than a few shades of Luc Besson's classic La Femme Nikita here, and Jung makes sure to reference one of that film's more memorable scenes, when Sook - hee must interrupt a romantic moment by going into a bathroom, assembling a sniper rifle and taking a shot at her assigned target.)