In May 2008 he and a cousin engaged in a high-speed gun battle with a rival along South Claiborne Avenue, one of the city's busiest streets, then rammed the man with their silver Mustang as he fled, in terror, on foot.

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But the new measures drew ire from the nation's largest gun lobby over the speed with which the bill was passed in the new legislative session.

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If the perceptual abilities of autocars were hooked into the police (moving about in their self-driven patrol cars), every road would be a speed trap and every car a radar gun.

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After two days of voting in the state Legislature, Cuomo signed the deal around 5 p.m. before telling reporters that speed had been essential so as not to create a rush on the gun market.

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In size, speed, efficiency, capacity, and sleekness, the difference between an eighteenth-century musket and the gun that George Zimmerman was carrying is roughly the difference between the first laptop computer which, not counting the external modem and the battery pack, weighed twenty-four pounds and an iPhone.

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