At 12:00 BST on Monday, a 41-gun salute will be fired from Hyde Park, along with a 21-gun salute in Windsor Great Park and a 62-gun salute at the Tower of London.

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In any case, liability coverage would offer great protection if a gun was lost, stolen or used by a third party to commit a crime.

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Still, you can see the irony here: A shooting claims a great deal of lives, fear increases that anti-gun legislation will follow and folks promptly head out to stock up.

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Under the new county law, Great Western Shows, which runs the gun show four times a year at the Pomona fairgrounds, can exhibit guns there but not sell them.

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Chris had a great uncle, not related to me, who was part of a naval gun crew on a WWII merchant ship.

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Even if the two combatants knew that the fight was nothing more than a "good ol' boy" disagreement, the way the statute is written could allow a gun to be used if the observer reasonably and actually believed that great bodily harm could occur.

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