Sentences with phrase «weapon fired in»
No fancy intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarines, or long - range bombers or cruise missiles have ever delivered a nuclear weapon fired in anger.
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According to a 2003 Milwaukee Magazine profile, he fired his weapon only once on the job, shooting and wounding a Saint Bernard that lunged at him while he was investigating a break - in.
The officer orders the suspect to «get on the ground,» but does not fire his weapon as he closes in on the man to take him into custody.
It «will either be a one - time, one - off, fire - and - forget retaliation for a heinous chemical - weapons assault on civilians, or it will serve as a signal to the Assad regime and its allies that the free ride for mass murder in Syria is now over,» Hof said.
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As law enforcement officers descended on the town of 21,000 equipped with armored trucks, body armor, camouflage, and assault rifles, and fired tear gas and rubber bullets into crowds of protesters during the last two weeks, civilians and politicians are making call to rein in the weapons arsenals cops have been amassing.
At the same time that the system is defeating the threat that is coming at it, it will enable the main gun or sensor or weapons station to vector with sights to where the threat came from and engage, identify or call in fire.
The closure comes after months of scrutiny caused by the use of a bump stock — an accessory that allows semi-automatic weapons to fire at the rate of an automatic — in the October 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, the deadliest in modern American history.
But the private promptly missed a cease - fire signal, and in the few horrifying moments before the corporal realized the slipup, the private's group continued to fire, while other marines had put down their weapons and were preparing to come out from their cover.
«The situation at the time the officer fired his Taser was, thus, replete with uncertainty and a reasonable officer in his shoes could have worried he faced imminent danger from a lethal weapon,» Gorsuch wrote in the majority opinion.
The strike by the US, the UK, and France in Syria on Friday involved 105 missiles fired from air and sea to rain down thousands of pounds of explosives on three targets suspected of being chemical weapons facilities — but Israeli officials cited in a recent news report characterized it as a failure.
North Korea has already effectively halted weapons tests since firing a missile in late November believed to be capable of reaching any city in the U.S..
The police report indicates that he was advised not to fire his weapon in an area with homes nearby.
But in a sign the pressure is beginning to tell in Washington, Trump announced on Tuesday that he had ordered the Justice Department to propose a rule to ban bump fire stocks, the device that allowed the gunman at the Las Vegas massacre in October to fire on concertgoers more rapidly, mimicking automatic weapons fire.
The Wall Street Journal in August spoke with a South Korean trader who provided perhaps the best insight into why: «If war breaks out with North Korea and they fire a nuclear weapon, it becomes a matter of life or death, and at that point, what happens in the stock market is meaningless.»
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.
But bump stocks, like those used by a gunman to kill 58 people and injure hundreds in Las Vegas in October, can modify a semiautomatic weapon into one able to fire shots more frequently.
The problem is that components can degrade, making the weapons either unstable, so they can blow up in a soldier's hand, or inert, so that soldiers can't fire the weapons, leaving them vulnerable in battle.
Congress might ban «bump stocks»: Since the Las Vegas shooting in October, there's been bipartisan support to ban a device the shooter used that can make a legal semiautomatic weapon fire more like an illegal fully automatic gun.
They will also seek a ban on «bump stocks,» which are used to make semiautomatic weapons mimic automatic weapons in rate of fire; more money to harden school campuses; and funding for mental - health initiatives and to provide trained school security officers.
The United Nations human rights expert on Myanmar voiced deep concern on Tuesday at a sharply escalation in hostilities in Kachin state, citing reports of the army using aerial bombings, heavy weapons and artillery fire on civilian areas near China.
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.
Deadly violence erupted around the controversial vote, with a candidate to the all - powerful body being elected shot dead and troops firing weapons to clear protesters in Caracas and elsewhere.
The company said it had never sold bump stocks, like those used by the gunman in October's Las Vegas shooting, that allow semiautomatic weapons to fire more rapidly.
At least one of the weapons in the photographs appears to have been modified with a «bump stock,» a device that allows a semiautomatic rifle to fire rounds faster, at a rate similar to a fully automatic weapon.
What guides you in deciding whether fire - bombing a city or using nuclear weapons is permissible under the moral framework you try to live by?
The bow (the weapon used some 3,000 years ago) he breaks apart and does cut the spear into pieces; The wagons (used in warfare) he burns in the fire.»
I do not think that a person can have a role in the wartime firing of a nuclear device, or even in the development or production of a destabilizing weapon, as an agonized participant.
Roger writes: «Feminism is ascendant, from Susan Brownmiller («Man's discovery that his genitalia could serve as a weapon to generate fear must rank as one of the most important discoveries of prehistoric times, along with the use of fire and the first crude stone axe») to Germaine Greer («Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caress of a subhumanly ugly mate?»).
This is tantamount to yelling «Fire» in a crowded movie theater, or claiming to have a weapon in an airport security area.
Meanwhile, the North was firing off regular weapons tests in a dogged march towards its goal of developing a viable nuclear arsenal that can threaten the US mainland.
Hunters might be pleased to know that such a weapon could cut a full - grown Kodiak bear in half with less than two seconds of automatic fire.
To give Mahomes «weapons» in addition to what he has and yet neglect the offensive line would be like placing a high - powered firing platform on terrain that is indefensible from a practical standpoint.
If Aston Villa are looking for actual money for the 30 year old then he may end up staying put but in all honesty he can be a potent weapon up front and could be a useful addition to either of the clubs mentioned but they will have to realise that a player who has had such a small amount of time on the pitch may take time to fire on all cylinders.
In addition to giving golf clinics and attending receptions, Tiger went on distance runs, fired all manner of weapons and twice jumped out of planes.
With Coutinho back in the groove, Liverpool — on a four - match winning streak — have the weapons to fight fire with fire.
Ben Arfa is unquestionably one of Pardew's best weapons to use on the pitch and with him being fully fit this season, he can provide the service that was missing for Papiss Cisse for most of last year, which could fire the club to a more healthier league standing this time around if all goes well in the final third of the field.
«But the gangbangers came in with semi-automatic weapons and opened fire.»
«Boys would brag about how far they could fire their breast milk during school, and breast milk would become a weapon in video games.»
About 3 a.m. Saturday in the 3600 block of West Shakespeare Avenue in the Logan Square neighborhood, police saw someone fire at a 19 - year - old man, and when the shooter turned his gun on them, the officers fired their weapons at him.
Perhaps wary of photo captions claiming he was aiming fire at his critics, Cameron — who later uploaded a Facebook post professing he was an avid «Throney» — resisted the temptation to hold aloft any of the many weapons on show in the Thrones «armoury».
This gets a lot of ridicule from non-conservatives in the United States, but any serious discussions regarding repeals of the second amendment will run into the problem of safely confiscating fire arms from a population that does believe in this right (hence why non-conservatives try to make weapons procurement more difficult but only hardliners discuss out and out banning of it).
A fire department in Putnam County reconsidered its decision to raffle off an AR - 15, a semiautomatic weapon similar to the ones used in recent mass shootings, and a shotgun after a heated public meeting held in the wake of the Parkland tragedy.
Time to ask, «Where in the Second Amendment does it say even mentally imbalanced Americans have a legal right to own deadly rapid fire weapons able to slaughter a classroom of second graders in seconds?»
State lawmakers in Albany are making a push to ban the possession and sale of devices like bump stocks that can allow a semi-automatic weapon to fire like an automatic rifle.
He added that the troops engaged the terrorists with a heavy fire causing the terrorists to abandon their weapons and flee in disarray with gunshot wounds.
Bump stocks, which can increase the rate of fire on a weapon, came under intense scrutiny after investigators said they believed Stephen Paddock used them to modify weapons used in a mass shooting in Las Vegas last October that killed roughly 60 people and injured hundreds more.
The ATF wrote letters in 2010 and 2013 explaining how current laws — the Gun Control Act (1968) and National Firearms Act (1934)-- do not provide an avenue for the bureau to regulate the gun attachments, which enable shooters to fire semiautomatic weapons at nearly the rate of automatic ones, according to CQ - Roll Call.
The United States fired a barrage of cruise missiles into Syria on Thursday night in retaliation for this week's chemical weapons attack against civilians.
The gunman, identified as Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28, walked up to the car's passenger side — where Liu was sitting — took a shooting stance and fired his weapon several times through the passenger window, striking both officers in the head, Bratton said.