One of them dived across the car toward a sawed-off rifle.

A person who carries concealed a sawed-off shotgun or a sawed-off rifle is guilty of a second degree felony under Utah law.

So some principals have taken action in schools where the kids like to park their handguns and sawed-off rifles in lockers.

Armed with a sawed-off rifle and a pistol, a Christian man and his son took on a group of Moslems last week.

Tensions simmering since that event exploded over the weekend, and thousands were involved in the fighting, some of them riding motorcyles and armed with sawed-off rifles.

Herak opened the driver's door, stepped out and braced his sawed-off rifle on the windowsill.

Confiscations of sawed-off rifles and shotguns by the firearms bureau's own enforcement agents jumped to 1,330 last year from 313 in 1987.

"He got her into the apartment, strangled her and shot her twice with a .22 caliber sawed-off rifle."

He was carrying a sawed-off rifle up his sleeve, the police said.

The three youths who carried out the hijacking were armed with sawed-off rifles.