There were only six or seven of them, Muslims and Christians from a variety of backgrounds, and their only weapon was an old gun that one of them had brought from home.
"There has been a shift from your traditional old gun-club crowd, " says Patrick Gilligan, the 30-year-old president of San Francisco Pacific Rod and Gun Club, an 80-year-old organization that until recently has mainly attracted much older members.
The economically distressed villages are 2 miles away from Ilion, where a 2-century-old Remington Arms gun plant is a major employer.
"Mr. Holder is supportive of old ideas for gun control that have never made people safer at the expense of taking away their rights, " Bunning said.
And the perfectly sensible reason why it didn't, he added, was the old Maxim-gun jingle: the Russians have got the hydrogen bomb and the Serbs have not.
Colorado voted to make background checks for gun-show purchases mandatory after Columbine, when investigators learned that the weapons used by the teenage killers were bought by an 18-year-old at a gun show to avoid a background check.
He has reversed his old view that the gun ban in Washington, DC, (which the Supreme Court struck down last week) was constitutional.
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Thatcher, the longest-serving British prime minister of the last century, will travel to the 300-year-old cathedral on a gun carriage drawn by horses from the King's Troop of the Artillery, according to the government.
Mr Arafat, for his part, pointed to three Palestinian deaths in the 24 hours after his speech, one a 12-year-old boy holding a toy gun.
Mr Zuma's favourite song is "Aw'lethe Umshini Wam" - "Bring my machine gun", another old liberation song.
The 59-year-old was shot with a stun gun on 6 March in Epworth, a report by Humberside Police Authority revealed.
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Three guns used by the two underage killers were purchased by 18-year-old Robyn Anderson at a Colorado gun show to avoid a background check.
The 38-year-old soldier said he was given the gun as a present while serving in Iraq.
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Mayor Anthony Williams, a black Democrat, attended a Morella fund-raiser this spring, and she has called on old friends in abortion-rights and gun-control circles.
If one of these spent shells is in the chamber, racking the slide will, in a single fluid motion, eject the old shell out the side of the gun and push a fresh round into the chamber.
The 62-year-old grandfather has gained national attention for his gun-control advocacy, helping garner Mr. Bloomberg's backing.
That said, when the kid in those old Westerns tries to take out the fastest gun in the West, it usually ends badly for him.
In any case, even if 20-year-old Adam Lanza had attempted to purchase a gun, there would have been no mental health prohibition preventing him from doing so.
The reason for their nerves, perhaps, was the presence of their 23-year-old teammate Xu Xin, the freewheeling young gun who has leapfrogged them both to become world No. 1 and started as the tournament's top seed.
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He mentioned 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton, the Chicago girl killed by gun violence after returning home from taking part in inauguration activities in Washington, saying she was shot a mile from his home in the city.
The 52-year-old was later found in remote woodland after turning the gun on himself.
As the old saying goes, this group brought knives to a gun fight.
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For example, under the old NCIC, if someone stole a car and a gun as part of the same crime and if a law enforcement officer later stopped the car thief on the highway, the officer could use the system to find out easily that the car had been stolen.
The family of 6-year-old victim Noah Pozner has contacted the White House to discuss gun laws and potential reforms.
The truck was delivering the cash to a bank in central Frankfurt when the 23-year-old French driver pulled into a car park and pulled a gun on his colleague.
Police fired eight shots at the intruder, who authorities say was holding a gun to the head of 21-year-old Andrea Rebello during a home invasion robbery Friday at an off-campus house in Uniondale.
In Indianapolis, police said a 54-year-old man was injured when he accidentally shot himself while leaving a gun show.
On Thursday, a 22-year-old woman appeared in court to answer charges that she purchased the gun that Ebel used in the killing of Clement and pizza deliveryman Nathan Leon.
Last week, a 22-year-old woman appeared in court to answer charges that she purchased the gun that Ebel used in the killing of Clement and pizza deliveryman Nathan Leon.
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