McElroy jumped out of the Buick and stood on the sidewalk, the stock of the shotgun resting on his hip.

Pike's flat black lenses were locked on Charlie DeLuca, the shotgun resting easy along the Pawnee's metal wing strut.

She sat down beside him on the boulder, her short-barrelled shotgun resting on her slim thighs.

The thickset man in the dark suit sat on the opposite sofa with the shotgun resting in his lap.

He sat silently in the darkness, his shotgun resting upon his knee.

Two men were sitting on the church steps, playing pinochle, shotguns resting in their laps, passing a bottle of Corby's Whiskey back and forth between them.

She squatted beneath it now with the shotgun resting across her knees.

They were met, he said, by Thomas Cirillo, 30, who had the pistol-grip shotgun resting on his hip.

The driver, a bearded, vacant-eyed young man, had a buck-and-ball shotgun resting across his lap.

Inside the kitchen he saw Al, his derby hat tilted back, sitting on a stool beside the wicket with the muzzle of a sawed-off shotgun resting on the ledge.