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Reuters; July 2, 2009
Guns and booze don't mix, Tennessee lawsuit argues
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - A well-known restaurateur is fighting back against Tennessee's newly enacted law that allows gun owners to bring their weapons into bars and restaurants that serve alcohol.
Randy Rayburn, owner ...read the full article.
- Pat Harris Trenton Times; July 1, 2009
Editorial: Handgun rationing
is rational
It's encouraging to see that somewhere in the United States a legislative body is willing to stand up to the gun lobby, which has intimidated politicians at the national level from President Obama on down and in mo ...read the full article.
- Trenton Times Arizona Daily Star; June 29, 2009
US makes it easy for gun traffickers: Mexican drug cartels get arms up north, where watchdog agency is short-staffed
PIMA COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS -- Behind the rows of gun-filled tables at the back of the exhibition hall, a large red banner shines like a beacon:
AK-47.
Beneath the sign, Joeken Firearms owner Joe Cox does a brisk business selling ...read the full article.
- Brady McCombs Philadelphia Inquirer; June 29, 2009
Editorial: Mayors take aim on illegal guns
Win or lose, the constitutional challenges to local gun laws in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and other Pennsylvania communities appear to be helping build grassroots pressure on Harrisburg lawmakers to follow New Jersey's lead and en ...read the full article.
- Philadelphia Inquirer Star-Ledger; June 27, 2009
After months of stalls, legislators slap limits on buying handguns
Handgun purchases in New Jersey would be limited to one per month after lawmakers gave final approval early yesterday to a controversial bill that had stalled for months and re-emerged in the rush before the Legislature's summer b ...read the full article.
- Susan K. Livio CQPolitics; June 27, 2009
Closing the ‘Terror Gap’ on Gun Purchases
It may be hard to imagine that a suspected terrorist can buy a gun in the United States but federal law allows it -- and two lawmakers are trying to close that loophole.
A recent Government Accountability Office report found th ...read the full article.
- Kevin Robillard New York Times; June 26, 2009
Editorial: The Fast-Draw-but-Don’t-Drink Law
Beyond farce in statehouse politics -- think New York, Illinois and South Carolina -- there can be danger. Think Tennessee, where the Legislature just overrode the governor's veto and rescinded a law barring patrons from carrying ...read the full article.
- New York Times Star-Ledger; June 26, 2009
Bill to limit N.J. gun purchases gets legislative approval
Firearms sales in New Jersey would be limited to no more than one per month under controversial legislation that had stalled earlier this year but won final approval early this morning in the rush before the Legislature's summer r ...read the full article.
- Susan K. Livio New York Times; June 25, 2009
Editorial: Death and American Guns in Mexico
Drug-related murders in Mexico doubled last year, to 6,200, as cartels fight for the American addict's dollar while relying on American gun dealers for their weapons. A new report to Congress traces over 90 percent of guns recover ...read the full article.
- New York Times Washington Independent; June 22, 2009
U.S. Guns Fueling Mexican Drug Violence
The absence of required background checks for private firearm sales, like those made at gun shows, have helped fuel the steady flow of U.S. firearms to Mexico, where thousands of trafficked weapons are ending up in the hands of vi ...read the full article.
- Mike Lillis Associated Press; June 22, 2009
Over past 5 years, more than 800 gun buyers matched names on terrorist watch list
WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than 800 gun purchases were approved after background checks in the last five years even though the buyers' names were on the government's terrorist watch list, investigators said Monday.
Being on the wa ...read the full article.
- EILEEN SULLIVAN Associated Press; June 21, 2009
Guns from America fuel Jamaica's gang wars
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- Ships from Miami steam into Jamaica's main harbor loaded with TV sets and blue jeans. But some of the most popular U.S. imports never appear on the manifests: handguns, rifles and bullets that stoke one o ...read the full article.
- MIKE MELIA New York Times; June 20, 2009
A Threat We Can’t Ignore
Even with the murders that have already occurred, Americans are not paying enough attention to the frightening connection between the right-wing hate-mongers who continue to slither among us and the gun crazies who believe a well- ...read the full article.
- BOB HERBERT New York Times; June 20, 2009
On Terrorist Watch List, but Allowed to Buy Guns
WASHINGTON -- People on the government's terrorist watch list tried to buy guns nearly 1,000 times in the last five years, and federal authorities cleared the purchases 9 times out of 10 because they had no legal way to stop them, ...read the full article.
- ERIC LICHTBLAU Houston Chronicle; June 19, 2009
Report finds U.S. slow to stop gun traffickers
For years, Mexico's drug cartels killed with reckless abandon using high-powered guns purchased in Texas, but only now, with thousands dead and the threat of violence spilling onto American soil, is the U.S. enlisting a comprehens ...read the full article.
- DANE SCHILLER Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; June 19, 2009
NRA continues fight in lawsuit against city gun ordinance
The National Rifle Association fired back in its lawsuit against the city of Pittsburgh yesterday, saying the city's legal argument that gun rights end when the weapon is lost or stolen is flawed.
State pre-emption of local law ...read the full article.
- Post-Gazette Bangor Daily News; June 19, 2009
Editorial: Guns in Parks
Congress bowed to the National Rifle Association last month and voted to permit loaded guns into Acadia National Park. It is not too late to reconsider this move before the federal law takes effect on Feb. 22, 2010.
Year after ...read the full article.
- Bangor Daily News Los Angeles Times; June 18, 2009
Gun flow south is a crisis for two nations
Reporting from Washington -- The United States lacks a coordinated strategy to stem the flow of weapons smuggled across its southern border, a failure that has fueled the rise of powerful criminal cartels and violence in Mexico, a ...read the full article.
- Josh Meyer Associated Press; June 18, 2009
Report: US not doing enough against gun smuggling
WASHINGTON -- Two federal agencies are being faulted for not coordinating their efforts against border gunrunners, a failure one lawmaker says made it easier for Mexican drug cartels to smuggle illegal weapons from the United Stat ...read the full article.
- EILEEN SULLIVAN Christian Science Monitor; June 18, 2009
US guns in Mexico: Will new data help change law?
Atlanta - Can new evidence that high-powered US firearms are fueling Mexican drug violence change the political course of gun control in Washington?
Not likely, a number of gun experts say.
The Government Accountability Offi ...read the full article.
- Patrik Jonsson New York Times; June 17, 2009
Gun Rulings Open Way to Supreme Court Review
A year ago, the United States Supreme Court issued a landmark decision establishing the constitutional right of Americans to own guns. But the justices did not explain what the practical effect of that ruling would be on city and ...read the full article.
- JOHN SCHWARTZ ABC News; June 17, 2009
Three Suicides, Three Months: Should Ranges Be Renting Guns?
Three attempted suicides in recent weeks at Florida shooting ranges where customers can rent guns has left the owners of the ranges shaken and worrying that there is little they can do to protect customers from taking their own li ...read the full article.
- EMILY FRIEDMAN Seattle Times; June 16, 2009
Time to disarm violent domestic abusers
Federal and state laws prohibit convicted domestic-violence offenders from possessing firearms, but enforcement of those laws has been lax, write guest columnists Merril Cousin and Nan Stoops. They urge all law-enforcement agencie ...read the full article.
- Merril Cousin and Nan Stoops KTNV - TV 13 Las Vegas; June 16, 2009
Two men charged with trafficking guns to Mexico
Two men are facing federal charges after agents say they bought guns here in Las Vegas to traffic to Mexico.
Agents say the brothers, William Weiss and Jonnatan Weiss bought guns ranging from pistols to rifles to sell across t ...read the full article.
- KTNV Daily Camera; June 15, 2009
Editorial: Troubling signs: Why are we too afraid to confront access to guns?
So another wacko with a gun asserts his terroristic agenda this week, and what will it change? Not a darn thing.
James von Brunn, charged with first-degree murder Thursday after a brazen shooting death at Washington's Holocaust ...read the full article.
- Erika Stutzman Courier-Journal; June 15, 2009
Parks brace for possible end of gun ban
Mammoth Cave National Park has long banned guns from its underground treasures, saying that keeps the public and employees safe.
"Once you get inside a cave tour, there are not a lot of exits -- you can be two miles from an exi ...read the full article.
- James Bruggers Philadelphia Inquirer; June 14, 2009
Across Pa., cities at odds with NRA
Nine months ago, a group of Pennsylvania mayors gathered in Reading to announce a new strategy in the war against gun violence: They urged municipalities to enact their own gun-control ordinances.
Frustrated by the General Asse ...read the full article.
- Amy Worden Albany Times Union; June 14, 2009
Editorial: In the line of hate's fire
he killing of a security guard at the United States National Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington is another painful reminder that hate endures in America. As if we needed a reminder.
Look at what we've witnessed in just a f ...read the full article.
- Albany Times-Union Free Lance-Star; June 14, 2009
U.S. gun massacres show need for new laws
WASHINGTON
--Recently, when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was asked about legislation to ban assault weapons, she responded, "On that score, I think we need to enforce the laws we have right now."
When President Obama was asked o ...read the full article.
- Dennis Henigan New York Times; June 13, 2009
Editorial: Politics of the Gun
Congress has shamefully caved in, yet again, to the gun lobby and abandoned the effort to grant the long-suffering District of Columbia a voting representative in the House. Hopes for passage were high this year, until the histori ...read the full article.
- New York Times Los Angeles Times; June 13, 2009
Hatred roils right-wing extremists
In 1865, with the Confederacy in extremisin extremis, Jefferson Davis bludgeoned appalled rebel lawmakers into accepting Robert E. Lee's request to recruit black troops into Northern Virginia's depleted army ranks. One outraged So ...read the full article.
- Tim Rutten Washington Post; June 12, 2009
'Was He Capable of This? Yes.': Murder Suspect's Hateful Views Shocked Eastern Shore Acquaintances
The anger of James Wenneker von Brunn was too big for the quiet civility of the small town on Maryland's Eastern Shore where he made his home for much of the past three decades.
The venom that seethed within him spilled over t ...read the full article.
- Ashley Halsey III and Paul Duggan Associated Press; June 11, 2009
Alleged gunman charged in museum shooting
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An 88-year-old white supremacist has been charged with murder for killing the security guard who had opened the door to let him into the U.S. Holocaust Memorial and Museum, officials said Thursday.
Security G ...read the full article.
- BRETT ZONGKER and CALVIN WOODWARD New York Daily News; June 11, 2009
Editorial: From hate to honor: Holocaust museum murder capped an old man's vile life
For far too much of a life that he has lived for too long, John von Brunn has been a white supremacist and anti-Semite - and today out of his demented hates has come murder.
Von Brunn opened fire with a rifle inside the United ...read the full article.
- New York Daily News Lancaster Intelligencer Journal; June 10, 2009
Gun-theft law passed by Council
Gun owners living in Lancaster city now have 72 hours to tell police if they discover their firearms have been stolen, or they could be sent to prison.
Mayor Rick Gray said the law, unanimously passed Tuesday by City Council, d ...read the full article.
- LARRY ALEXANDER Washington Post; June 10, 2009
Gray: Shooting Renews Need For D.C. Gun Control Laws
D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray (D) said today's shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum unfortunately highlights the need for the District to fight for its gun control laws.
House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D ...read the full article.
- Nikita R Stewart Oxford Press; June 8, 2009
Editorial: March 2009 was a deadly month
The beat goes on.
• On Sunday, March 29, a 45-year-old man shot and killed eight people, and wounded three others, in a nursing home in Carthage, N.C. Seven of the victims were elderly residents of the nursing facility.
†...read the full article.
- Oxford Press USA Today; June 8, 2009
NRA gun case appeal heads to high court
WASHINGTON -- One year after the Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep handguns, the justices have before them a new test of that right.
The National Rifle Association has appealed a ...read the full article.
Parade Magazine; June 7, 2009
Despite Recent Violence, Gun Laws Are Softening
Thirteen killed at an immigration center in New York. Eight at a nursing home in North Carolina. Five in a house in California. These were among the 57 people killed in mass shootings in a 30-day period this spring in the U.S. Mea ...read the full article.
- Rebecca Webber ABC News; June 6, 2009
Are Dems Weakening on Gun Control?
Democrats are looking down the barrel of a gun as they vie to keep their power in Washington.
Poised after last year's election to push back against the National Rifle Association's heavy firepower, the Democrats have in rapid ...read the full article.
- PATRIK JONSSON Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; June 5, 2009
Wilkinsburg approves stolen handgun ordinance
Wilkinsburg residents will face fines and possible imprisonment for failure to report their lost and stolen handguns once a new ordinance takes effect in the borough.
Council voted unanimously Wednesday night to approve an ordi ...read the full article.
- Deborah M. Todd Christian Science Monitor; June 5, 2009
'River' of US guns also flows north of the border: In Canada, concerns mount about weapons smuggling – a problem that has long roiled Mexico.
Saint John, New Brunswick - A spate of recent shootings and drug busts here highlights a trend: Police are seeing illegal firearms - often from the United States - more frequently in this industrial port town.
"We are turning u ...read the full article.
- Murray Carpenter Baltimore Sun; June 3, 2009
It's not a dead issue: Reasonable gun restrictions are still needed; all it takes is leadership
Ten years ago this spring, two teenagers in Colorado gunned down fellow students and teachers in a killing spree that left 15 dead, 24 injured, and a nation horrified that such carnage could unfold at an American high school.
I ...read the full article.
- J. Joseph Curran Jr. Associated Press; June 2, 2009
Brady Center, Pittsburgh answer NRA gun lawsuit
PITTSBURGH--Attorneys for Pittsburgh and the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence have filed an answer to a National Rifle Association lawsuit challenging the legality of a city law requiring gun owners to report their lost or sto ...read the full article.
- AP Philadelphia Daily News; June 1, 2009
Editorial: Terrorized by guns: Why have Dems in Washington given up on this deadly issue?
THE ATTACKS of Sept. 11, 2001, so terrified many Americans that they were willing to forfeit many of their cherished constitutional rights to "keep us safe."
The official death toll from 9/11 was 2,794.
Since that terrible d ...read the full article.
- Philadelphia Daily News South Florida Sun-Sentinel; May 31, 2009
Editorial: Another assault weapon does damage
One can only hope Congress and the Obama administration find some guts and reinstate the assault weapons ban. And when they do that, they should go further and regulate some of the ammunition that makes assault weapons so deadly, ...read the full article.
- Sun-Sentinel Chattanooga Times Free Press; May 30, 2009
Editorial: Support veto of guns-in-bars
Citing the common-sense maxim that guns and alcohol don't mix, Gov. Phil Bredesen on Thursday wisely vetoed legislation that would allow Tennesseans with gun-carry permits to take their guns into bars and restaurants that serve al ...read the full article.
- Chattanooga Times Free Press Miami Herald; May 30, 2009
Camping? Don't forget to bring your gun
Like many other Americans, every time I take my family to a national park I find myself thinking: Wow! If I only had a gun . . .
Now, thanks to Congress and President Obama, all of us will soon be able to carry loaded firearms ...read the full article.
- CARL HIAASEN Times Picayune; May 29, 2009
House kills bill to allow guns on college campuses
BATON ROUGE -- The House voted 86-18 today to kill a bill that would have allowed qualified students 21 and older and faculty members to carry concealed weapons on college campuses.
House Bill 27 by Rep. Ernest Wooton, R-Belle ...read the full article.
- By Ed Anderson Reuters; May 29, 2009
Mexico Cartels Go Bargain Gun Shopping In Houston
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Mexican drug gangs looking for weapons powerful enough to stop a vehicle, penetrate a bullet-resistant vest or confront an army detachment need look no further than the Houston area's 1,500 gun shops, where mer ...read the full article.
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