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With difficulty, Barbara Bodine, the U.S. ambassador to Yemen, tried to persuade the Yemeni government to accept these visitors and allow them to carry arms, though the Yemenis balked at letting Americans openly carry long guns (rifles, shotguns, automatic weapons).
Repeating Arms Co., which manufactures rifles.
The Jerusalem Post carries a story titled "Arafat Warns: Our rifles are ready," portraying an angry Yasser Arafat defending the right of Palestinians to pray in Jerusalem.
While Hillary Clinton preached against juvenile access to "bomb-making materiel" and decried "the arsenal of guns, rifles, and bombs that the two young men in Littleton were able to bring into their school," President Clinton earned another ovation by proposing to "require Brady background checks on anyone who wants to buy explosives."
Like: "A UN convoy that had left the headquarters to retrieve water from a warehouse turned back when it was attacked by militia members with M-16 assault rifles, machetes and clubs.