Ruger

A 3-year-old boy shot his 18-month-old sister to death Friday with a high-powered rifle his parents owned for protection, authorities said. Colleen Abatti was shot in the head with a .243-caliber Ruger that her mother had loaded and left in the living room after hearing noises outside the home Thursday night, San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Deputy John Hastie said.

Joe Zamudio was out buying cigarettes last Saturday when he heard what sounded like fireworks but quickly realized were gunshots. He reached into his coat pocket for the 9-millimeter semiautomatic pistol he carried, clicking the safety off. He heard yelling around him: "Shooter, shooter, get down!" Zamudio saw a young man squirming on the ground and an older man standing above him, waving a gun. Zamudio, 24, had his finger on the trigger and seconds to decide. He lifted his finger from the trigger and ran toward the struggling men. As he grabbed the older man's wrist to wrestle the gun away, bystanders yelled that he had the wrong man ?

The mayor is speaking out against special-issue rifles that carry the city's name. The .22-caliber Ruger is engraved with a stagecoach and "City of Elk Grove Special Edition." It's one of several guns marketed by a Colorado company to specific communities. "I'm livid," Mayor Sophia Scherman said. "This is a total misappropriation of the name of our city." Only 26 of the $599 rifles have been made, said Bill Daley, marketing director for Investment Arms in Fort Collins, Colo.

The mayor is speaking out against special-issue rifles that carry the city's name. The .22-caliber Ruger is engraved with a stagecoach and "City of Elk Grove Special Edition." It's one of several guns marketed by a Colorado company to specific communities. "I'm livid," Mayor Sophia Scherman said. "This is a total misappropriation of the name of our city." Only 26 of the $599 rifles have been made, said Bill Daley, marketing director for Investment Arms in Fort Collins, Colo.

The daughter of one of two Dana Point women who allegedly hired an Alabama team of would-be mercenaries in the firebombing of two cars last August testified in federal court Wednesday that she would be scared and might flee if the two defendants were released on bail. "I probably won't be around," Shirley Ruth Wright, 28, told a detention hearing for her mother, Charlotte Ruth Wyckoff, 51, and Elizabeth Leta Hamilton, 39.

Of all the couples who've ever spoken about leaving Los Angeles for the promise of a better, safer life elsewhere, the Hackmeyers seemed excellent candidates to actually do it. For one thing, their roots are back East. Paul is from Boston and Nancy is from Philadelphia. Plus, their work is portable and highly compensated. He's an ob-gyn, she's a lawyer. And, considering the way L.A. has treated them, they would have better motives than most.

William B. Ruger, a flinty entrepreneur who turned a childhood fascination with guns into the nation's largest firearms manufacturing company, died Saturday at his home in Prescott, Ariz. His death at 86 came after a period of declining health. Ruger was co-founder and chairman emeritus of Sturm, Ruger & Co. of Connecticut, a manufacturer admired by sportsmen and collectors since it began selling pistols in 1949.

It was a miserable day to be pregnant. Hot, humid, late in July, 1987. Afternoon thunderheads teased the mountains to the east of the city, and even skinny people sweated. Had it not been for motherhood, Darci Pierce and Cindy Ray might never have met on a broiling blacktop parking lot outside an obstetrics clinic. On this day, particularly, it was no place for a mother to be.

The men who carried handguns into a hotel room accompanying O.J. Simpson in an attempt to retrieve sports memorabilia received sentences of probation Tuesday. Simpson was sentenced last week to at least nine years in prison. But Michael McClinton and Walter Alexander -- who testified against the NFL Hall of Fame running back -- avoided prison time.

Sam Horrell's childhood was spent in a little log shack, cutting firewood with a crosscut saw and poaching wild meat for the dinner table. Now he's master of all he surveys as the unofficial governor of "Sammyville," an imagined city that's actually little more than a jumble of beat-up trailers, rusted tin homes and even a house of straw about six miles from Elgin, the nearest real town.

William B. Ruger, a flinty entrepreneur who turned a childhood fascination with guns into the nation's largest firearms manufacturing company, died Saturday at his home in Prescott, Ariz. His death at 86 came after a period of declining health. Ruger was co-founder and chairman emeritus of Sturm, Ruger & Co. of Connecticut, a manufacturer admired by sportsmen and collectors since it began selling pistols in 1949.

Of all the couples who've ever spoken about leaving Los Angeles for the promise of a better, safer life elsewhere, the Hackmeyers seemed excellent candidates to actually do it. For one thing, their roots are back East. Paul is from Boston and Nancy is from Philadelphia. Plus, their work is portable and highly compensated. He's an ob-gyn, she's a lawyer. And, considering the way L.A. has treated them, they would have better motives than most.

He insists it is not his fault. Yes, William B. Ruger designed the P-89 semiautomatic pistol. And yes, when Colin Ferguson strafed a Long Island commuter train last December, killing six and wounding 17, his weapon was a P-89 semiautomatic pistol. But no, Ruger maintains, he is not to blame. "The world knows it's not our fault," said the 78-year-old founder of Sturm, Ruger & Co., one of the country's largest firearms makers.

The daughter of one of two Dana Point women who allegedly hired an Alabama team of would-be mercenaries in the firebombing of two cars last August testified in federal court Wednesday that she would be scared and might flee if the two defendants were released on bail. "I probably won't be around," Shirley Ruth Wright, 28, told a detention hearing for her mother, Charlotte Ruth Wyckoff, 51, and Elizabeth Leta Hamilton, 39.

A 3-year-old boy shot his 18-month-old sister to death Friday with a high-powered rifle his parents owned for protection, authorities said. Colleen Abatti was shot in the head with a .243-caliber Ruger that her mother had loaded and left in the living room after hearing noises outside the home Thursday night, San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Deputy John Hastie said.

He insists it is not his fault. Yes, William B. Ruger designed the P-89 semiautomatic pistol. And yes, when Colin Ferguson strafed a Long Island commuter train last December, killing six and wounding 17, his weapon was a P-89 semiautomatic pistol. But no, Ruger maintains, he is not to blame. "The world knows it's not our fault," said the 78-year-old founder of Sturm, Ruger & Co., one of the country's largest firearms makers.

Joe Zamudio was out buying cigarettes last Saturday when he heard what sounded like fireworks but quickly realized were gunshots. He reached into his coat pocket for the 9-millimeter semiautomatic pistol he carried, clicking the safety off. He heard yelling around him: "Shooter, shooter, get down!" Zamudio saw a young man squirming on the ground and an older man standing above him, waving a gun. Zamudio, 24, had his finger on the trigger and seconds to decide. He lifted his finger from the trigger and ran toward the struggling men. As he grabbed the older man's wrist to wrestle the gun away, bystanders yelled that he had the wrong man ?