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In the Eastern California town of Clovis, California, at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, Marilyn Williams, a woman who earned a sharpshooter medal in high school ROTC, scared a couple of burglars so badly that they dropped their loot and ran. She did it with a Marauder air rifle. The Marauder is one of the more powerful popular air rifles.  With .25 caliber pellets, the pre-charged pneumatic can reach energy levels (45 foot-pounds) about two thirds of a .22 short cartridge , one of the lowest powered firearm cartridges.  The Marauder has multi-shot capacity.  It sports a...

Project engineer Peyton M. Magruder designed the Glenn L. Martin Company's B-26 Marauder in response to an Army Air Corps specification issued in January 1939. This specification also caught the attention of North American Aviation Inc. and that firm responded with the B-25. War fever caused the Air Corps to forego a prototype test stage and both bombers went from the drawing board straight into production. The consequences were deadly for crews that flew the Martin airplane.

Right WheelsA car for conservatives.By Eric PetersJuly 18, 2002 National Review Online  http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-peters071802.aspIt's huge, V-8 powered, and has rear-wheel drive — the perfect car for a right-thinking conservative?The '03 Mercury Marauder (gotta love the name) is probably the last true American-style muscle sled that will ever see production. It's a throwback to a time before the automakers cringed in fear of Ralph Nader and Joan Claybrook — when cars were built to satisfy the buyers, not self-appointed nags in the "public-interest" lobby. The attraction of a full-frame titan of the road as big and heavy (4,100 lbs.) as many SUVs...