When Norval and Mr. Kockenlocker are sitting on the front porch talking, Mr. Kockenlocker is cleaning his gun. He has an automatic pistol, he cocks it to open the chamber for cleaning, and in the next scene he cocks it again.
In the newspaper headline where the Canadian Premier is quoted as saying that the news is "Possible, but not probable", that should be the Canadian Prime Minster. Premiers are the heads of provinces; the Prime Minister is the head of the federal government.