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a shell containing lead shot

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The two other films are also memorable because I won best supporting actor for 'Birdshot' and best actor for 'Heneral Luna.'
I tried loading the gun with birdshot through the BB loading hole near the muzzle, but the gun locked up solid.
[U.S.A.], September 27 ( ANI ): 'Birdshot' will be the Philippines' official entry to the Best Foreign Language Film category of the 2018 Academy Awards.
In a news conference late Saturday, Molins said Belgacem called his father and brother early that morning, minutes after he fired birdshot at a police traffic patrol, injuring an officer in the face, to say that he had made a stupid mistake.
Due to the peripapillary creamy coloured lesions radiating from the optic disc bilaterally birdshot retinochoroiditis was highly suspected (Figure 1).
The metal pellets or birdshot fired from the pump-action shotguns rarely result in deaths, but can often blind victims if the fragments hit them in the eye.
An officer has been referred to trial for allegedly shooting dead activist Shaima al-Sabbagh when riot police fired tear gas and birdshot to disperse a peaceful rally in January.
To view the photo gallery, click here Egypt suspended all major football games indefinitely after Sunday's violence, which broke out when police fired tear gas and birdshot at disruptive fans.
Shaima al-Sabbagh, who friends said was 34 and the mother of a five-year-old boy, died of birdshot wounds, a health ministry spokesman said.
Those four rounds would all be birdshot and the reason for being one under capacity is the fact I could easily insert a round of buckshot or a slug into the magazine then quickly pump it into the chamber if I felt it was needed first.
A Ministry spokesperson stated that the protestors, across 18 demonstrations, had intentionally cut off roads, and fired birdshot and Molotov cocktails at security forces.
Specifically, birdshot chorioretinopathy and the white dot syndromes present with multiple white dots in the fundus.
He is believed to have been hit by a birdshot, which is a small pellet, or a shrapnel from the birdshot during his coverage of the country's unrest after Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi was ousted.
One of them was cleared of fatally shooting Ali Ahmed Abdulla, 22, in the legs with birdshot, while his 36-year-old co-defendant was cleared of shooting Isa Abdul Hassan, 60, in the head with the same type of round.