Posts Categorized: Guns
Morning Lineup – February 1
The U. S. Army has been overseeing development of a special round of ammunition that has a self-guiding feature that will direct the bullet right to the target.
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Bonnie’s Tommy Gun Brings $130 Grand
TWO GUNS LEFT BEHIND BY BONNIE & CLYDE when a police raid on their Joplin, Missouri apartment caused them to flee, were sold at a Kansas City auction house Saturday for $210,000.
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Bonnie’s and Clyde’s Guns To Be Sold Saturday
SERIOUS GUN COLLECTORS (AND FANS) ARE streaming into Kansas City today so that they can attend the Mayo Auction & Realty Co.'s major firearm auction on Saturday.
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Return of the Derringer – - – With Added Punch
THERE IS A NEW "GUN GUY" IN TOWN and his name is Heizer.
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Morning Lineup – January 14
Discovery has a brand new series starting up in less than two weeks that I think will also become popular around the fire and rescue stations.
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Ammo Sent Flying in Florida Gun Shop Fire
FIRE STRUCK THE PATRIOT MANIA military surplus, apparel and gun shop Sunday morning in Jacksonville, Florida.
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Ready, Aim, Gun Shop Fire
A SPECTACULAR FIRE IN A TOLEDO, OHIO, GUN STORE Monday afternoon shutdown the Airport Highway and threatend the Ohio Highway Patrol station next door.
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U. S. Supreme Court Affirms Gun Rights, Voids Restrictive Laws.
MONDAY MORNING THE U.S . SUPREME COURT handed down a widely-watched decision on the rights of Americans to "keep and bear arms" under the Second Amendment of the Constitution. The Wall Street Journal summarizes:
The Supreme Court ruled for the first…
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Smith & Wesson Veep Nailed in International Bribery Sting
A VICE PRESIDENT OF FIREARMS MANUFACTURER Smith & Wesson, and a former Secret Service deputy director were among 22 people rounded up and arrested yesterday following Federal indictments charging them with engaging in schemes to bribe foreign officials.
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Stray Bullets Aren't So Bad, Though
IN FAYETTE COUNTY, THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE have charged a man with accidentally firing a 2-lb. cannonball through the wall of a neighbor's home.
William Edward Maser, 54, fired the cannon in his yard Wednesday evening. It is a replica of a ty…
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Around the Fire Web
* New York City's mayor has been taking flak for shutting down engine houses during their budget "crisis." But that didn't stop some political hack in city hall from ordering a Brooklyn engine company to shut down for half an hour to pull a publicity…
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Morning Lineup – September 5
Do you recall our posting about the Chicago Batt. Chief who slept through a fire call? (It's HERE if you missed it.) He received a 15-day suspension for it and what probably nailed him on it was that it was a working 2-alarm dwelling fire with rescue…
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Siberian Dam Disaster Update
THE DEATH AND DESTRUCTION TOTALS HAVE BEEN COMPILED in the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric plant disaster in Siberia. A massive explosive force destroyed a large section of the generating rooms in Russia's largest hydroelectric power plant on August…
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Firetruck Rollover In Alabama
A SPRING GARDEN, ALABAMA, FIRE ENGINE overturned trapping three firefighters inside for a short period of time while en-route to a structure fire at around 5:30 Sunday morning.
Spring Garden Fire Chief Butch Jacobs arrived on the just seconds later …
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Olympic Medalist Gets Stolen Shotgun Back
A CALIFORNIA WOMAN WHO HAS ONE SEVERAL OLYMPIC and World Cup medals for shooting over the past 18 years has been reunited with her competition shotgun. The gun was stolen from her truck back on September 11 after she had made a promotional appearance i…
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Amb. Driver Who Wrecked Was Already In Trouble For Texting While Driving
EARLIER THIS WEEK ON TUESDAY, a Mohawk Ambulance wrecked near Albany, New York, when the driver didn't see a stopped vehicle in time and swerved off the road into a snowbank to avoid rear-ending the car.
WXXA-TV Albany reported on it that evening:
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New Zealand Tanker Driver Trapped For 2 Hours
AN ALEXANDRA, NEW ZEALAND, FIRE DEPARTMENT TANKER rolled over into a 30-ft. deep gully Saturday morning when the road collapsed under it.
The tanker from Dunstan was responding along with two other units to a house fire and was carrying three firefight…
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Large Commercial Fire In Western Pennsylvania
LAWRENCE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, FIREFIGHTERS WERE kept busy all day on Saturday with a commercial fire that destroyed a large, community social center.
KDKA-TV
The fire began in the kitchen of the Parkstown Restaurant and was discovered as employees wer…
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Shamwow Update
YESTERDAY (FRIDAY) WE SHOWED you the field test results (HERE) on the new Shamwow toweling that is sweeping the infomercial circuit. Station KVUE-TV in Austin, Texas, gave Shamwow the workout.
But what they did NOT do was give it the only true test of…
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Virginia Hunter Bags Piebald Buck
JEFFERY GODFREY OF CHESAPEAKE, VIRGINIA, was deer-hunting Wednesday when that moment-of-a-lifetime arrived. He had already seen several deer that morning, but was waiting for "something special" at Fort Pickett.
And sure enough, his special target cam…
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Arson By Mob
THROUGHOUT THE UK TRAFFIC "SPY" CAMERAS have been springing up like spring weeds. Literally thousands of them are being placed on every road and byway around the kingdom. Even gentle country lanes.
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They are desi…
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Roanoke Firefighter Recovering
ON FRIDAY EVENING, WHILE WORKING A HOUSE FIRE, Roanoke, Virginia, Firefighter Scott Hetherington suffered a heart attack and went into full cardiac arrest on the fireground.
His fellow FF's got to him immediately and rescusitated him by perfoming CPR. …
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Rifles Going Back In Norwegian Locomotives
FOR MANY YEARS THE NORWEGIAN RAILWAYS CARRIED RIFLES in the locomotive cabs. Not to fend off Butch Cassidy, but to euthanize wild animals that had been struck by the train. The locomotive drivers' union has been protesting the removal of the rifles a…
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Paramedic Convicted of Computer Crimes
A WHIDBEY, WASHINGTON, PARAMEDIC WAS CONVICTED Friday on 10 felony counts of computer trespass and faces up to four years in prison.
Tracy Adams, a 39-yr.-old employee of the Whidbey General Hospital, used computers at three ambulance quarters, his own…
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Retired Batt. Chief Loses Election
WHEN VIRGINIA'S 1st CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT Rep. Jo Ann Davis died on Oct. 6, her husband Charles "Chuck" Davis, a retired battalion chief, announced that he would run for the special election to fill out her term (Firegeezer story HERE).
The special dis…
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