The decision was overruled by the Michigan Supreme Court in the 2004 decision County of Wayne v. Hathcock.

Carlos Hathcock ( May 20, 1942 – February 23, 1999 ) was a United States Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant sniper with a service record of 93 confirmed kills.

Hathcock was awarded a Silver Star in 1996 not for his sniping, but for his act in 1969 of saving the lives of seven fellow Marines after the amphibious tractor ( AMTRAC ) on which they were riding struck a landmine.

Hathcock was knocked unconscious, but awoke in time to race back through the flames to rescue his injured comrades.

Hathcock was one of several individuals to utilize the M2 Browning machine gun in the sniping role.

On March 9, 2007 the rifle and pistol complex at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar was officially renamed the Carlos Hathcock Range Complex.

Hathcock was the subject of a number of books including:

Fisher sends Mick Rawson ( played by Matt Ryan ) of the BAU team a package containing a pager which he uses to notify Rawson of his next kills ; he signs the package " Carlos Hathcock ", which Rawson explains by sharing the tale of Hathcock's 93 kills and an incident during the Vietnam War in which he was put up against the best sniper of the NVA, known only as ' Cobra ' ( thus mimicking the incident, since Rawson is also a skilled sniper shooter ).

Its most notable wearer was Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock, who was awarded the Silver Star medal for bravery during the Vietnam War.

The Shamrock restaurant and motel near Corinth, Mississippi was owned by Jack Hathcock.

Hathcock was allegedly shot dead in self-defence, though it was rumored Carl Douglas " Towhead " White, leader of the State Line Mob, was the actual gunman.

One of the best known U. S. Marine Corps snipers who used the Winchester Model 70 during the Vietnam War was Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock who used a Winchester Model 70 sniper rifle chambered in. 30-06.

It was this rifle, equipped with a standard 8x43 Unertl scope, that Hathcock used to kill a North Vietnamese enemy sniper by shooting him in the eye, through the scope of his Mosin-Nagant, a Russian military rifle.

The Security Police Sniper School was started in 1996 by TSgt Ben Dolan a former Marine Scout Sniper and was conducted exclusively at Camp Robinson in Little Rock, Arkansas which is the birthplace of the legendary Marine Corps sniper Carlos Hathcock.

( Although the 2005 United States Supreme Court decision in the case of Kelo v. City of New London states that the use of eminent domain to promote economic development is constitutional on a federal level, the opinion in Kelo cites the Hathcock decision as an example of how states may choose to impose their own restrictions on the taking of property.

Hathcock dreamed of being a Marine throughout his childhood, and so on May 20, 1959, at the age of 17, he enlisted in the Marine Corps.

Hathcock married Jo Winstead on November 10, 1962.

Carlos Hathcock died on February 23, 1999, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, after a long struggle with multiple sclerosis.

Turner Saddlery similarly honored Hathcock by producing a line of leather rifle slings based on his design.

The protagonist of Stephen Hunter's Bob Lee Swagger Series consisting of the novels Point of Impact, Black Light, Time to Hunt and I, Sniper is loosely based on Carlos Hathcock ( Hathcock is alluded to in the book as " Gunny Sgt Carl Hitchcock ").

In JAG, Season 1, Episode 16 (" High Ground "), Gunnery Sergeant Ray Crockett ( portrayed by Stephen McHattie ) is based on Hathcock.

Hathcock picked up a white feather on a mission and wore it in his hat to taunt the enemy.

Hathcock fired on Pusser with a concealed. 38 pistol.

During the Vietnam War, Carlos Hathcock set the record for a long-distance shot at 7382 ft ( 2250 m ) with a. 50 caliber heavy machine gun he had equipped with a telescopic sight.

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Springfield Armory, Inc. also manufactures variants of its M1A rifle called M21 Tactical Rifle and M25 White Feather Tactical / Carlos Hathcock rifle, which are based upon M21 and M25 Sniper Weapon Systems but are slightly different, most notably they are fitted with a Picatinny rail to mount a scope.

Jo gave birth to a son, whom they named Carlos Norman Hathcock III.

Before deploying to Vietnam, Hathcock had won shooting championships, including matches at Camp Perry and the Wimbledon Cup.

In 1966 Hathcock started his deployment in Vietnam as an MP and later became a sniper after Captain Edward James Land pushed the Marines into raising snipers in every platoon.

Land later recruited Marines who had set their own records in sharpshooting ; he quickly found Hathcock, who had won the Wimbledon Cup, the most prestigious prize for long-range shooting, at Camp Perry in 1965.

During the Vietnam War Hathcock had 93 confirmed kills of North Vietnamese Army and Viet-Cong personnel.

After the war, a friend showed Hathcock a passage written by Ernest Hemingway: " Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and like it, never really care for anything else thereafter.

" He got that right ", Hathcock said.

" Hathcock said in a book written about his career as a sniper: " I like shooting, and I love hunting.

Hathcock's son, Carlos Hathcock III, later enlisted in the Marine Corps ; he retired from the Marine Corps as a Gunnery Sergeant after following in his father's footsteps as a shooter, and became a member of the Board of Governors of the Marine Corps Distinguished Shooters Association.

Heidenstam was born in 1859, of a prosperous family.

Sherlock Holmes, the ancestor of all private eyes, was born during the 1890s.

Henrietta was discovering in the process of writing, as the born writer does, not merely a channel for the discharge of accumulated information but a stimulus to the development of the creative powers of observation, insight and intuition.

She was born Lilian Steichen, her parents immigrants from Luxemburg.

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

He was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1909.

About the only time the Hetman seemed excited was when one of his own pet ideas was born.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.

Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.

Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??

Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

And she replied, `` I was born in America, but I was conceived in Vienna ''.

I was born angry.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.