Evidence suggests he was hit by a fellow soldier who was firing a machine gun at a stationary target.

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Evidence suggests a fellow soldier firing a machine gun at a designated target placed on the range hit Ranger Maguire.

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And the Iraqis would be sitting there, with the machine guns firing, firing, firing, killing a lot of these guys but there would be more coming, and these machine guns would just heat up and jam.

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Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS), Sausan Ghosheh said U.N. observers reported heavy fighting in Rastan and Talbiseh, north of Homs, with artillery and mortar shelling and firing from helicopters, machine guns and smaller arms.

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Ruybalid said surveillance video from the bank in Valdosta showed Lee Grace Dougherty firing a MAC-10 machine pistol, and shell casings from the bank matched a weapon found with the group after their capture.

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Like Harmison, Johnson sometimes gives the impression that his best spells almost happen by happy accident, his action less well-oiled machine than a randomly-firing weapon.

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After firing so many bullets, the barrel of his machine gun was literally bent.

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Firing a mixture of balls from a specially-made bowling machine he found the white balls deviated from a straight path much more than the red ones.

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And respond he does, spending an hour each morning firing off a good 150 brief, typo-laden missives from his BlackBerry while working out on an elliptical machine in the basement of his home office, a restored Victorian in one of San Francisco's tony residential neighborhoods.

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