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...In 2022, two adventure-seeking orthopaedists with a reporter in tow landed small aircraft on an interior public square, and one of the doctors emerged carrying a semi-automatic pistol....
...Los Angeles County sheriff Robert Luna said Tran used a semi-automatic pistol with an extended magazine in the attack. Luna did not share details about a possible motive....
...They were connected and feared enough that they’d never yet had to shoot anyone with their 9mm semi-automatic pistols....
...Remington made the AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle used in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting. The company filed for bankruptcy in mid-2020 for a second time in two years....
...Mark Hanish, Ammo’s president of global sales and marketing, told the Financial Times it had seen intense demand for bullets for semi-automatic handguns and the AR-15 “modern sporting rifle”....
...A third proposal at Dick’s Sporting Goods was withdrawn after the retailer said it would stop selling military-style semi-automatic rifles and high-capacity magazines in the wake of the Parkland shooting...
...Let’s not forget that the perpetrators of these massacres tend to be armed with semi-automatic or automatic weapons. So are we sure a mere handgun will be enough for the head of history?...
...On January 8 2011, she was meeting constituents of her US congressional district outside a supermarket in Tucson when a young man named Jared Loughner opened fire with a 9mm Glock semi-automatic pistol....
...Last month the $154bn California State Teachers’ Retirement System – the second-largest public pension plan in the US – announced plans to sell holdings in three gun makers that produce semi-automatic weapons...
...He cited the 1997 Pearl High School shooting in which an assistant principal got his .45 calibre semi-automatic pistol from his truck and “disarmed the assailant”, who had killed two students and injured...
...Pistols that take high-capacity magazines contribute another 30 to 40 per cent....
...A US Treasury report in 1998 concluded that semi-automatic rifles with large magazines were “not generally recognised as particularly suitable for or readily adaptable to sporting purposes”....
...Although it is getting harder to make and plant bombs and smuggle in semi-automatic weapons without detection, hand-grenade and pistol attacks are easier to deploy at short notice, and word of possible targets...
...They are generally based on the AR-15 design, developed for the US Army, but sold for civilian use in semi-automatic guise....
...However, most have licences for bolt-action rifles and shotguns, with a smattering of semi-automatic weapons, and ownership of heavier weapons and handguns is usually much more restrictive....
...For while a simple pistol or shotgun in the wrong hands can cause damage, the hail of death from a semi-automatic weapon is on a different scale....
...He gives me a very light $319 black Kel-Tec semi-automatic pistol, which fits into my hand....
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