One important aim would be to disrupt Mr. Hussein's ability to order the use of weapons of mass destruction.
The stores stopped selling assault-style rifles in Oregon, Washington and Idaho several years ago, according to the company, and will no longer accept "any special orders of these weapons" in Alaska.
"Is there any document where President Arafat orders the purchase of weapons or the manufacture of weapons?
To achieve its task, Sandline was reported to have ordered an arsenal of weapons, including helicopters armed with rockets and machineguns.The crisis was sparked when Brigadier-General Jerry Singirok, the army chief, denounced the Sandline deal and called on Sir Julius to resign.
Seeking to arm itself against a US invasion everyone knew would come, the new revolutionary regime had ordered a boatload of weapons and ammunition (mostly rifles and grenades) from Belgium, an imperial arms-manufacturing country that was trying, at the time, to disentangle itself from its African colony, the Belgian Congo.
Republican leader Santiago Casares Quiroga was replaced by José Giral who ordered the distribution of weapons among the civilian population.
Republican leader Casares Quiroga was replaced by José Giral, who ordered the distribution of weapons among the civilian population.
Prime Minister José Giral ordered the distribution of weapons among the population, helping to defeat the rebels in Madrid, Barcelona, and Valencia, which led to anarchists taking control of large parts of Aragon and Catalonia.
R. R. Tolkien (whether or not such a comparison is justified), Ms. Byatt is working within a pecking order of hauteur, using weapons against Ms. Rowling that have long been used against the entire fantasy genre, Tolkien included.
Yet carrying weapons in public was as much a threat to the constitutional order as depriving citizens of weapons altogether.
