Exposed and with little available cover, the patrol was totally vulnerable to enemy rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons fire.
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While crossing the courtyard, Staff Sergeant Petry and another Ranger were engaged and wounded by automatic weapons fire from enemy fighters.
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After receiving several serious wounds from automatic weapons fire, he crawled towards the enemy emplacement and, when in position, threw a grenade into the bunker.
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Seriously wounded by the blast, Specialist Four Sabo nonetheless retained the initiative and then single-handedly charged an enemy bunker that had inflicted severe damage on the platoon, receiving several serious wounds from automatic weapons fire in the process.
"Seriously wounded by the blast, Specialist Four Sabo nonetheless retained the initiative and then single-handedly charged an enemy bunker that had inflicted severe damage on the platoon, receiving several serious wounds from automatic weapons fire in the process, " the citation said.
The Act banned the ownership of semi-automatic and pump-action rifles, weapons which fire explosive ammunition, short shotguns with magazines and elevated pump-action and self-loading rifles.
Jet-packs give people the ability to soar through the air like Superman while protective clothing keeps soldiers and emergency personnel safe from weapons, fire and other extreme elements.
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.
Council chairman Clark Aposhian explained why be believes teachers should learn to fire weapons.
Given the road-bound nature of our forces, they will not be able to reach beyond the first range of hills with their direct-fire weapons.
Americans are taught that it was the British soldiers sent there to confiscate weapons who opened fire, sparking the revolution that brought independence to the United States.
Developed by engineers at the Northrop Grumman Corporation, it has gone on test flights and may eventually be able to set off on a preprogrammed flight plan, identify enemy targets and fire weapons.
We are expressly not speaking here of automatic military weapons which rapid-fire lots of bullets with a single trigger pull.
Which seems to me to be a design flaw on par with Klingon and Romulan ships not being able to fire their weapons while cloaked.
All of the buttons had a nice tactile response to each press that was free of mush, making it a pleasure to fire off weapons at the other karts in our race.
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Paul Vance, a spokesman for the Connecticut State Police, said officers didn't fire their weapons after arriving at the campus, but he couldn't say with certainty how the alleged gunman was killed.
That afternoon, while Private First Class Svehla and his platoon were patrolling a strategic hill to determine enemy strength and positions, they were subjected to intense enemy automatic weapons and small arms fire at the top of the hill.
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The thieves, who carried automatic weapons but didn't fire a shot, appeared to have carried off the robbery using inside information, people familiar with the investigation said soon after.
UN's Special Commission, whose job it has been since the Gulf war ended in 1991 to strip Iraq of its secret chemical and biological weapons and the missiles to fire them.
In both cases the player can lock-on to nearby enemies, fire two core weapons (a machinegun and the equivalent of a grenade launcher), and unleash a couple of charge attacks that are as explosive as they are damaging.
On Wednesday Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Mitchell that the cease-fire between Israel and Gaza would hold only if Hamas -- which rules Gaza -- ends weapons smuggling into Gaza and halts rocket fire into Israel.
But Brig Gen Edokpaye disputed this, saying Boko Haram's weapons had exploded, causing "fire to about 30 thatched houses in the predominantly fishing community".
"Not everybody can fire the AK series of weapons, not everybody can throw grenades like that, " he said.
Authorities do not know how William Spengler, 62, who was found dead hours after the four firefighters were shot, obtained the weapon or weapons he used or why he opened fire.
At the weapons range Craig was given the chance to fire some of the machine guns used by UK forces.
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The nuclear strategy will not take U.S. nuclear weapons off submarines, bombers and missiles that could fire them at a moment's notice.
Though several European countries are planning to buy the XM25, some of them, including Germany, are working on weapons that operate in the same way, but fire 40mm rounds.
Baghdad also had said it destroyed remaining stocks of its chemical and biological weapons as was required under the terms of the cease-fire that ended the Persian Gulf War in 1991.
It helped as well that Casey Tegreene had a law degree, Lowell Wood had spent his career dreaming up weapons for the government, Nathan Myhrvold was a ball of fire, Edward Jung had walked across Texas.
Bush administration officials -- Powell among them -- argued that Iraq had harbored stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, a hidden nuclear weapons program and long-range missiles in violation of the cease-fire that ended the Persian Gulf War in 1991.
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