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Swiss voters firmly rejected a referendum that would have forced soldiers to end the longstanding practice of keeping army-issue firearms at home and tightened restrictions over civilian gun ownership.

World Watch 2011

ZURICH — Following an emotional debate over gun control, Swiss voters firmly rejected a referendum that would have forced soldiers to end the longstanding practice of keeping army-issue firearms at home and tightened restrictions over civilian gun ownership.

Swiss Vote to Keep Guns at Home Deborah Ball 2011

Besides, the colonel had been on duty for the past twenty-two hours, taking army-issue Dexedrine pills to stay alert, and now he needed a little exercise to calm himself down.

The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

From the sporting-goods store, a knife and a box of ammunition; from the military-surplus outlet, a musty, old army-issue backpack; and from the liquor store, a bag of ice and a bottle of vodka.

Death's Noisy Herald gerard varni 2011

The referendum proposes a constitutional amendment that would ban army-issue weapons at home, forcing militiamen to pull them from basements and closets and store them on base.

In Switzerland, a Cherished Tradition Comes Under Fire Deborah Ball 2011

Besides, the colonel had been on duty for the past twenty-two hours, taking army-issue Dexedrine pills to stay alert, and now he needed a little exercise to calm himself down.

The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

Supporters of the initiative say that army-issue weapons are involved in the deaths of more than 300 people in Switzerland each year, a figure that opponents challenge.

In Switzerland, a Cherished Tradition Comes Under Fire Deborah Ball 2011

In winter he wore a heavy robe made from a buffalo that had been killed in the late fall, when the creature had grown a dark brown winter fur that was up to twenty inches thick.9 Plainsmen and soldiers claimed that one such robe offered more warmth than four heavy, army-issue woolen blankets.

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

Not only were the blisters painful, but Mark once pulled on his army-issue socks and shoved his foot into a boot, only to feel the decidedly new sensation of a scorpion sting.

With Love and Laughter, John Ritter Amy Yasbeck 2010

The American boys who for weeks in 2005 in Iraq shared with me their army-issue meals, their menthol cigarettes, their water, and their heartbreak in an armored humvee5 with a faulty air conditioner—once, on my thirtieth birthday, it choked all of us with sour Freon fumes—write me occasionally.

Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010