WHSV - TV (ABC - 3 Harrisonburg, VA) Nov 18, 2009
Virginia Tech Survivor Films Gun Show Loophole Campaign
Colin Goddard is a survivor of the Virginia Tech shootings. He traveled the country during the summer to states that allow private gun dealers to sell without background checks. Goddard used a hidden camera to film visits to gun shows where some private dealers sold him a gun without asking for identification. Goddard says, "It is time, actually way past time, for America to close the loophole that allows people who can't legally buy a gun from a gun dealer to literally buy one in the back corner of the same convention center." In Harrisonburg, Homestead Gunsmith owner Jon Ritenour is just getting word ...read the full article


WTVR - TV (CBS - 6 Richmond) Nov 18, 2009
Virginia Tech Survivor Goes Undercover For Gunshow Loophole Legislation
Andy Goddard, Colin's father says the project was all of Colin's idea : going undercover to show how easy it is to buy guns from private dealers with no questions asked. While working for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun violence this summer, the agency got a donor to fund the undercover project and gave Colin a green light. With an undercover camera, Colin traveled to eight cities in five states that do not require Brady criminal background checks at gun shows, including Virginia. In the five minute video, Goddard demonstrates just how easy it is to buy a gun with no questions ...read the full article


Roanoke Times Nov 18, 2009
Brady Campaign Video Stars Virginia Tech Survivor
Colin Goddard was one of the survivors of the Virginia Tech massacre. After graduation, he worked as a volunteer for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, and he's now a paid staffer there. This past summer, Goddard took a little trip to four gun shows in four states, where he and/or an associate purchased handguns and semiautomatic rifles from unlicensed sellers with no background check, no ID. The resulting video is rather eye-opening: guns for cash with few questions asked. The video is part of the Brady Campaign's efforts to close the so-called "gun show loophole," in which licensed sellers are required ...read the full article


WTKR - TV 3 Norfolk Nov 18, 2009
Tech survivor goes undercover exposing gun show loophole
Andy Goddard, Colin's father says the project was all of Colin's idea : going undercover to show how easy it is to buy guns from private dealers with no questions asked. While working for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun violence this summer, the agency got a donor to fund the undercover project and gave Colin a green light. With an undercover camera, Colin traveled to eight cities in five states that do not require Brady criminal background checks at gun shows, including Virginia. In the five minute video, Goddard demonstrates just how easy it is to buy a gun with no questions ...read the full article


Baltimore Sun Nov 17, 2009
Editorial: Guns And The Mentally Ill: Unstable Veterans Can Pose As Much Of A Danger As Anyone Else
If... the nation wants to honor those who died at Fort Hood, they could scarcely do better than to stand behind gun purchase background checks that can help spare their families' lives. ...read the full article


Newsweek Magazine Nov 17, 2009
Will Gun Measure Threaten Amtrak Terror Attacks?
Just how much clout does the gun lobby have on Capitol Hill? This week may prove to be a crucial test: A House-Senate conference committee is about to take up a massive transportation-funding bill that is pitting advocates of gun rights against security-minded members worried about the threat of terrorist attacks on Amtrak trains. Tucked into the measure is a controversial National Rifle Association-backed amendment that would cut off $1.5 billion in subsidies to Amtrak unless the federally backed national passenger train company reverses its post-9/11 security policies and permits train passengers to travel with handguns and other firearms as ...read the full article


Mother Jones Nov 16, 2009
Senate Bill Would Allow "Mentally Incapacitated" Vets to Buy Guns
Major Nidal Hasan, accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood Army base, has been described by former colleagues as "psychotic." As more details emerge about Hasan's troubled state, gun safety advocates are launching fresh attacks on a Senate bill they say would make it easier for mentally unstable veterans to buy firearms. Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) says his "Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act" will protect veterans' gun rights. But the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence calls it a "dangerous" proposal that could allow "over 100,000 mentally incapacitated or incompetent persons" to buy guns--people who would previously have been barred ...read the full article


ABC News Nov 16, 2009
Do We Need Tougher Gun Control Laws?
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Associated Press Nov 15, 2009
Schumer: Gun Laws Lacking With Fort Hood Suspect
NEW YORK (AP) -- Sen. Charles Schumer says a hole in federal gun laws allowed the man charged with a shooting rampage in Fort Hood, Texas to purchase a gun. Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan has been charged with the shooting spree that left 13 dead. Hasan purchased a gun at a store in Texas in August even though the Joint Terrorism Task Force had investigated him for possible terrorist ties. Authorities had taken a look at Hasan after intercepting messages between Hasan and a radical imam overseas. The inquiry was closed sometime in early 2009. Schumer says that should have been enough ...read the full article


Washington Post Nov 13, 2009
Task Force Seeks Ban On Assault Weapons: Group Also Wants Overhaul Of Mexican Border Agencies
A binational task force on U.S.-Mexico border issues will call Friday on the Obama administration and Congress to reinstate an expired ban on assault weapons and for Mexico to overhaul its frontier police and customs agencies to mirror the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The recommendations are among a broad set of security, trade, development and environmental proposals that come as President Obama and his Mexicans counterpart, Felipe Calderón, move to deepen engagement on issues including economic recovery, climate change, illegal immigration and narcotics trafficking. Robert C. Bonner, the U.S. co-chairman of the private task force, which included several former senior government ...read the full article