Birds flying over the islands of Malta on their annual migration to northern Europe must evade 31 licensed marksmen per square kilometre – 15 times more than in shooting-friendly France.
Tucked behind walls, sitting on armchairs in specially built turrets or else popping up from old stone sheds, Malta's marksmen open fire as migrating birds flap desperately for cover.
She notes that professional female boxers would whop a man off the street, and that women are keen marksmen.
Iraqi marksmen have a habit of closing their eyes and spraying bullets in "death-blossoms", in GI slang.
THE belief that its riflemen are the world's best marksmen runs through America's military history.
Over the past decade police marksmen in England and Wales have killed about three people each year, and injured fewer.
Now, police forces will be allowed to arm officers who have completed just a three-day course (rather than the weeks of training required of marksmen) and let them use the zappers whenever their safety or the public's is at risk.Human-rights groups have long worried about Tasers: Amnesty International says that since 2001 more than 300 people have died after being zapped in America and Canada.
The marksmen hired to carry out the slaughter, which was intended to contain the spread of bovine tuberculosis, were to be paid per badger killed.
There are no visible weapons within the terminal, in contrast, for example, to London Heathrow Airport where machine-gun-wielding marksmen intermingle with the crowds.There is little evidence of a rise in footfall despite plans to double BIAP's annual capacity to 15m passengers.
GUNFIRE rings out almost every day around the village of San Juan Copala, as marksmen in the woods take potshots into the town.
Aghast, an infantry lieutenant, Joseph Trotta, hurls him to the ground as French and Italian marksmen open fire on the figure who has so foolishly identified himself as the Austrian commander.
