And so Mr. Ratner, best known for high-firepower fare like the "Rush Hour" movies, not only had to bring his own tree from a prop shop.
To stem this deadly flow, the Bureau of Alcohol , Tobacco Firearms and Explosives is seeking emergency authority to require gun dealers near the border to report multiple purchases of the high-firepower rifles favored by cartel gunmen.
The launching of the high-firepower British battleship HMS Dreadnought nearly a century ago instantly reduced the value of the rest of the worlds battleships to scrap metal.
The launching of the high-firepower British battleship HMS Dreadnought nearly a century ago instantly reduced the value of the rest of the world's battleships to scrap metal.
Our current policy on machine guns should be extended to all these high-firepower products: subject those already on the market to strict regulation and prohibit future manufacture and sale for the civilian market.
At the very least, high-firepower assault weapons and assault clips should be banned, background checks should be required for all gun sales, uniform limits should be placed on bulk sales of handguns, and greater authority should be given to federal law enforcement to shut down the dealers who aid and abet the traffickers.
The show will do its best if it keeps clobbering its victims with high-tech firepower and low-tech wit.
As drug cartels feel increasing pressure from the Mexican government, they turn to weapons smuggling to circumvent Mexico's gun-control regulations and to equip themselves with the latest in high-grade firepower.
Still, even as it has developed nuclear weapons, Pyongyang has for decades kept a conventional insurance policy against the high-tech firepower of the United States and its ally in South Korea: heavy artillery lined up along the demilitarized zone that separates North and South Korea, giving it the ability to devastate Seoul, just 30 miles away, if an invasion were to occur.
The Rumsfeld Doctrine merges high-tech firepower and special forces with minimal use of Army and Marine units.
