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Picnic gun display shocks Yakima crowd and prompts concerns
An AP report says 800 children at a Yakima picnic fired 3,000 blanks from a .50 caliber machine gun loaned by Marines. Teachers and parents voiced mixed feelings while the event, staged by Jaycees and police, included a film afterward.
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Mike Amos
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