As the ambush intensified, Sgt Meyer defied his commanding officers' orders to jump into an armoured Humvee with a fellow Marine and brave an inferno of machine-gun fire, bullets, grenades and mortars.
We are expressly not speaking here of automatic military weapons which rapid-fire lots of bullets with a single trigger pull.
These automatic weapons which fire lots of bullets with a single trigger pull are illegal for any civilians to own unless they have acquired a very special Class III permit.
And while it may well be that background checks will ultimately do more to stop gun violence than the other two, there is simply no argument in 21st century America for anyone to own an assault weapon or magazine clips that can fire more than 10 bullets in rapid succession.
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As a young parish priest in Brazil, Carinal Braz de Aviz was caught in the cross-fire of an armed robbery, with bullets perforating his lungs, intestines and an eye.
At the end of the day I can supply the bullets but I don't fire the gun.
Monsoor "ran out into the street with another SEAL, shot cover fire and dragged his comrade to safety while enemy bullets kicked up the concrete at their feet, " according to Navy documents.
On top of this, older baby-boomers have dodged two speeding bullets, leaving their descendants squarely in the line of fire.
It's then that the police open fire with a reported 46 shots in a five-second hail of bullets.
Her approach to questioning was to fire questions at her folks one after the other like verbal machine gun bullets.
Mujagic allegedly opened fire at the ground near the prisoner's feet and one of the bullets hit Cordic in the leg.
"In essence, the live-fire ranges are protection for the tortoises, " he said, looking at a patch of ground where bullets often rain down but rarely hit the burrowing reptile.
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