They pulled back on finding Gerald "Skip" Murphy, who said he was armed with a gun and explosives and had three unidentified people with him - a 16-year-old girl, a four-year-old boy and a woman aged 18.

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"We know that's true, because in states that already require background checks on private sales, the rate of women murdered by an intimate partner armed with a gun is 38% lower than in states that don't have such background checks, " he said.

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In 1994 three men armed with a machine gun stormed into the Carlton Hotel in Cannes, France.

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Using a handheld glue gun, and armed with a home-cooked slurry of polyethylene and candle wax, he built the shape layer by layer.

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Does the rapid growth of gun ownership and armed citizens have anything to do with a diminishing gun violence trend?

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One bill working its way through the Arizona legislature would allow those with a concealed gun permit to enter, armed, into restaurants serving liquor.

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On Sunday, about 200 armed men surrounded the Foreign Ministry building with their gun trucks, demanding a new foreign minister, the removal of ambassadors who served under Gadhafi and the closure of Libya's embassy in Moscow, which they accuse of supporting Gadhafi's regime.

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The paintings were stolen by two armed men who ripped them from the wall after threatening a member of staff with a gun.

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