Some held their wallets in the air, yelling, "This is not a gun," referring to testimony by the four white officers who said they shot Mr. Diallo, a 22-year-old immigrant from Guinea, because they mistook a wallet he held for a gun.
The caliber of the gun refers to the diameter of the barrel and the corresponding ammunition that will be used.
The guns that had been constructed for the battleships Sachsen and Württemberg were eventually used as long-range, heavy siege guns on the Western Front, as coastal guns in occupied France and Belgium, and a few as railway guns; these guns were referred to as Langer Max.
The committee's evaluation of the use by US law enforcement officials of stun guns – commonly referred to by the brand name Taser – calls on the authorities to "revise the regulations governing the use of such weapons with a view to establishing a high threshold for their use... and subject to the principles of necessity and proportionality".
Nolan carried the message to Lucan; when Lucan asked what guns were referred to, Nolan is said to have indicated, by a wide sweep of his arm, not the Causeway redoubts but the Don Cossack battery in the North Valley, around a mile away.
Indeed, we do not know whether or not any of the respondents in our survey are gun dealers (though the question on gun theft referred to their personal firearms).
Correction: June 17 , 2001 Sunday An article on June 3 about diversification in the gun industry referred incorrectly to an opinion expressed by James Hall, editor of Guns & Gear magazine.
Speaker John A. Boehner, for instance, who earlier in the week reacted icily to the idea of new gun legislation, referred to the advocates Thursday after the Senate vote.
NEW YORK An article on Thursday about a hearing in Newtown, Conn., on Wednesday about gun control referred incorrectly to a previous meeting of the state's Task Force on Gun Violence Prevention and Children's Safety.
NEW YORK An article last Sunday about Jennifer Sultan, a dot-com millionaire who is now bankrupt and facing drug and gun charges, referred incorrectly to a relationship between two of her former business partners, Debra LaChance and Victor Starsia.
