Almost all the original physical evidence was missing, including the apparent murder weapon, and the only eyewitness to the event was the mother of both the victim and the shooter and she would no doubt be summoned as the star witness for the defense.

NEWYORKER: A Loaded Gun

Currently, head teachers can only carry out a physical search of a pupil they suspect of carrying a weapon.

BBC: Secondary pupils outside school

The bill would expand the definition of an assault weapon by reducing to just one the number of specified "physical characteristics" that need to be present.

CNN: Connecticut panel crafts gun law overhaul

Even though there has been physical fighting in the recent conflicts in the Middle East, technology has helped make words become a powerful weapon-of-choice.

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