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Florida. twenty three years ago, actually , a fairly famous gungr designer called mark shirou, who joins us right now.k >> so first of all, mark, thank you for coming on . congratulations on having the . but master band by an entire country. >> tucker: tell the master was not designed for mass shootings, right? >> no, i had no idea about bu mass shootings. yeah, they werent as popular back then, but, yeah, its itas causing quite a stink in canada? right now, isnt it? sor: the b but master, as fa...

Robert Templeton from Ballymena is sentenced to a year in prison after admitting a range of offences.

Already bit by the gang bug we just exported the gang life out there. >> randalls gang activity led to his incarceration by the california youth authority and soon after, prison. there, he joined a militant gang called the black guerrilla family. >> ended up spending 15 years in solitary confinement for prison activities and conduct. tried to get back into the main line. it was hard after facing walls for 15 years in handcuffs everywhere i went. i didnt adjust too well. i still became more assau...

More combative, more violent. >> after 25 years of incarceration, randall had plenty of violent episodes to share. >> i had threw a bomb in an inmates cell and blew his toilet off the wall and blew a patch of his leg off. an officer came to my door. i made a zip gun out of some magazines and i shot him in the face. >> as the story unfolds about why hes there, what hes done in prison, it can send chills up your spine. then it occurs to you, im sitting right in front of this guy. anything can happ...

Laying up underneath there. they use this strap for getting underneath the bed, because weve found shanks there and had to fish them out. >> success rate, thats hard to say. sometimes it goes in spurts. we might find a lot of shanks one month and the next six months might not find any. >> this is numerous contraband weve found throughout the years here at the penitentiary. this is a zip gun. stick a .410 shell in there. we have a screw in there. a shank made out of a pen barrel and a nail. these...

He wants to hide it. very sharp, very pointed. this is what wed call a .22 zip gun. shoots a .22 round. put your bullet in there. screw it down until its tight. made in one of the shops. if a guy didnt know this, if this wasnt together, he had this piece laying on one bench and this piece laying over here, you really wouldnt know what it was. >> the c.e.r.t. team constantly trains to respond to any incident within the prison, including escape attempts. >> what were doing here today, were repelli...

This is a spear. and as you can see, its pretty rigid. this inmate lodged a metal screw for the tip. when the officer or inmate walks by the cell, the spear is thrust out. >> you wouldnt think that a rolled up newspaper or magazine would be -- make that good of a handle and it does. very effective. >> this is known as a zip gun. this portion of the zip gun is filled with match heads, ground-up match heads. a plunger is used to push shrapnel, pieces of metal, ground up zippers, packs it down. whe...

This is a spear. and as you can see, its pretty rigid. this inmate lodged a metal screw for the tip. when the officer or inmate walks by the cell, the spear is thrust out. >> you wouldnt think that a rolled up newspaper or magazine would be -- make that good of a handle and it does. very effective. >> this is known as a zip gun. this portion of the zip gun is filled with match heads, ground-up match heads. a plunger is used to push shrapnel, pieces of metal, ground up zippers, packs it down. whe...

Tried to move to pomona to establish a better life for us. by the time we moved to pomona, which is mostly a middle, upper class neighborhood, being already bit by the gang bug, we just exported the gang life out there. >> randalls gang activity led to his incarceration by the california youth authority and soon after, prison. there, he joined a militant gang called the black guerrilla family. >> ended up spending 15 years in solitary confinement for prison activities and conduct. tried to get b...

And handcuffs everywhere i went, i didnt adjust too well. i still became more assaultive, more combative, more violent. >> after 25 years of incarceration, randall had plenty of violent episodes to share. >> i had threw a bomb in an inmates cell and blew his toilet off the wall and blew a patch of his leg off. an officer came to my door. i made a zip gun out of some magazines and i shot him in the face. >> as the story unfolds about why hes there, what hes done in prison, it can send chills up y...