He had left the single barrelled gun out of its cabinet in his bedroom.
Ranger Michael Maguire, training at the Castlemartin Ranges, died from a single machine gun shot probably fired from 0.6 miles (1 km) away.
The petition calls for a single system for issuing gun licences as well as more co-operation between authorities.
Switching on radar, or an anti-aircraft gun firing a single salvo, now brings down a hail of bombs on anything deemed threatening, from command bunkers to radar stations, and even anti-ship missiles.
But many of them also recognize that it's not only the high-profile mass shootings that are of concern here, it's also what happens on a day-in-day-out basis in places like Chicago or Philadelphia, where young people are victims of gun violence every single day.
Gun control is but a single staging arena among many for such tactics, but an important one where the outcome will reflect much about what the future has in store for us and future generations.
This was the highest number of prospective gun buyers ever recorded in any single month.
On his instructions, Steinway's chief technician shaved the piano's hammers so they would be even lighter, and rearranged some parts so that a single note could be repeated in an almost machine-gun-like fashion.
On 26 January, the anniversary of India's republic, he was returning from the main market in Robertsgunj when a "man, possibly in his thirties" came from behind, pressed a gun sideways to his head, fired a single shot and ran away.
Lest we dismiss out of hand the potential importance of a single email, such an email could well be a smoking gun in any given case.
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Single-shot rifles that require you to physically reload the gun may not do people a lot of good when they are facing multiple criminals or when their first shot misses or fails to stop an attacker.
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Morgan Chase was grilled on national television last year in the Senate's Enron hearings, which failed to uncover a smoking gun at the bank or force it to restate a single transaction.
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.
Canada recently got rid of its costly "long-gun" registry for rifles in part because the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Chiefs of Police could not provide a single example in which tracing was of more than peripheral importance in solving a gun murder.
The story is based on a single incident related to MacDonald about William Killick, Vera's husband, shooting a gun through the window of the Thomas's home.
The Windy City lost 500 people to gun violence in 2012 alone and neither the police nor city hall have a single idea on how to stop it.
The key for gun control proponents is to figure out how to turn people's willingness to take a single action in a moment into an effortless and sustainable long-term commitment.
On Monday, the White House spokesman said that tighter gun control laws were only part of the answer to violence in the US, and that "no single action will fully address the problem".
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