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Monday, February 1, 1982

Command Post, Scott AFB, IL, 11/13/81

Air Force S/Sgt. Lee Trennel saw a burglar ransacking the apartment of his neighbor, an Air Force nurse, ...

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Friday, January 1, 1982

The Day, New London, CT, 10/5/81

Navy veteran Ernest Regneri made good use of his Shore Patrol experience when a burglar broke into his ...

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Friday, January 1, 1982

The Sun, Colorado Springs, CO, 10/14/81

K.G. Lane and Martin Higdon were elk hunting near Westcliffe, Colo., when one of their horses spooked. The ...

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Friday, January 1, 1982

The Free Press, MI, 9/14/81

Hugh Wade saw a man try to rob a pair of young women on a Detroit street and ...

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Friday, January 1, 1982

The Morning News, Dallas, TX, 10/24/81

A pair of burglars cut the telephone lines to 65-year-old Francis Pullin's Oak Cliff, Tex., home but hadn't ...

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Friday, January 1, 1982

The Post, New York, NY, 10/8/81

Victor Kaufman never used his service revolver during a 24-year career as a New York City policeman. But ...

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Friday, January 1, 1982

The Beacon Journal, Akron, OH, 10/2/81

A murder suspect was making his escape from the scene of a robbery when he passed the Akron, ...

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Friday, January 1, 1982

The Courier, Evansville, IN, 9/9/81

A pair of young criminals escaped from the Indiana Boys School and went on a spree of car ...

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Friday, January 1, 1982

The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN, 10/27/81

J.W. Thomas, 82, emerged from his sickroom with a 12-ga. shotgun after he heard screaming inside his Shelby, ...

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Friday, January 1, 1982

The Northwest Press, Cincinnati, OH, 9/16/81

A youthful burglar found himself diving through a plate-glass window when he tried to ransack the Cincinnati, Ohio, ...

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Established in 1975, the Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) is the "lobbying" arm of the National Rifle Association of America. ILA is responsible for preserving the right of all law-abiding individuals in the legislative, political, and legal arenas, to purchase, possess and use firearms for legitimate purposes as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.