SHOOTING NATION
« ■■ REVOLVER AS BADGE. if. OAfl US—*•»!»»» twufii »"''«»• >* * NEW YORK, May 2. The Chief Magistrate of New York (Mr McAdoo), addressing the international police conference, which General Sir William Harwood (head of the London police) is attending, said: "The revolver is the badge of the United States, and Americans are known as a gun-carrying and shooting nation. The ladies of America have now taken to the gun earnestly, and j soon a bride will go to the altar with the family revolver strapped to her waist. It is an open season for shooting men. and chivalrous juries acquit We are getting to an* unenviable situation and our reputation is being smirched." General Harwood explained the drastic measures taken in London, where two to ten years' imprisonment is im- ! posed on persons carrying firearms il-legally.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ) -
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 3 May 1923, Page 5
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137SHOOTING NATION Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 3 May 1923, Page 5
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