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Article: Not Your Dad's BB Gun; More Powerful Models Used in Shootings Giving Toy a Bad Name
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- The Washington Post
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- November 26, 2004
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When George W. Bush was 16 or so, the frogs in the pond outside
his boyhood home in Midland, Tex., weren't the only targets the
future president shot at with his trusty BB gun.
"He said, 'I'm going to count to 10, and you run all the way down
the hall,' " the president's little brother, Neil Bush, recalled at a
Utah Republican Party dinner in Provo two years ago, according to the
Deseret News.
Big brother drawing a bead on the backsides of siblings Neil and
Jeb must have left a mark because Neil also told the story to a class
of Richmond second-graders. "I was running as fast as I can with my
little lightweight summer pj's on, and then '7, 8, 9, 10!' Boom! I
felt it on my right [butt] ...