Associated Press Sep 10, 2010
Woman Held After 2 Shot Dead at Pa. Cookie Plant
PHILADELPHIA -- Minutes after a woman was suspended from her job at a Kraft Foods Inc. plant and was escorted out, she returned with a handgun and opened fire, killing two people and critically injuring a third before being taken into custody, police said. The shootings occurred shortly after 8:30 p.m. Thursday inside a northeast Philadelphia plant where workers for the nation's largest food manufacturer make cookies and crackers. About 10 minutes after the woman was escorted out, she returned in a car and drove through a security barrier before re-entering the building on foot, Lt. Frank Vanore said. As she walked inside, ...read the full article


Associated Press Sep 10, 2010
Police: Feuds Led Pa. Woman to Shoot Colleagues
PHILADELPHIA -- A Kraft Foods plant worker was suspended from her job because she was feuding with colleagues, then returned minutes later with a handgun and fatally shot two of them and critically wounded a third, police said Friday. Yvonne Hiller, 43, was escorted from the plant after being told of the suspension about 8:30 p.m. Thursday. But she returned from her vehicle with a .357 magnum, threatened a guard with her gun to get past security, and made her way to the third floor, where she found her victims in a break room, police said. Hiller told one woman she was ...read the full article


Portland Insight Sep 9, 2010
Adams’ Gun Proposal Will Save Lives
Portland Mayor Sam Adams has taken a courageous stand against three tough opponents: gang members, gun traffickers, and the gun lobby. His recent proposals to curb illegal gun use are an essential move against those in Portland who deal in illegal weapons and recklessly put guns within easy reach of our children. The recent shootings in Portland sadly indicate that the city needs to better control the use of illegal weapons. Mayor Adams' proposed ordinances to reduce illegal guns would help address this grave situation. The mayor's proposed Child Access Prevention ordinance would prevent illegal access to firearms by children. The ordinance ...read the full article


Danbury News-Times Sep 9, 2010
Uzi Death Trial Starts Nov. 10 for New Milford Man
NEW MILFORD -- A New Milford man faces a jury trial in connection with the 2008 accidental death of an 8-year-old boy at a Westfield, Mass., gun fair. Domenico Spano was charged with involuntary manslaughter after Christopher K. Bizilj accidentally shot himself in the head while firing an Uzi submachine gun under adult supervision at the Machine Gun Shoot and Firearms Expo at the Westfield Sportsmans Club. Two other men are also charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the boy's death in October 2008. Trial is set to begin Nov. 8 in Hampden (Mass.) Superior Court. The Ashford, Conn., boy, whom police ...read the full article


Detroit Free Press Sep 8, 2010
2 Mumford Students Shot on 1st Day of School
Police on Tuesday shot and killed a man in connection with an investigation into a shooting at Mumford High School earlier in the day, the first day of classes for the school year. Two students were shot outside the building on the city's west side -- a 14-year-old girl was grazed on the face and a 16-year-old boy was shot in the buttocks, according to Detroit Public Schools officials. The students were listed in temporary serious condition at Sinai-Grace Hospital, said Sgt. Eren Stephens, a spokeswoman for the Detroit Police Department. Hours later, officers investigating the shooting went to an apartment in the ...read the full article


Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Sep 8, 2010
ATF Orders Store to Stop Selling Guns: Shawano Shop Has Had Ongoing Appeal Since 2007
Federal regulators have ordered a Shawano gun dealer that repeatedly failed to keep accurate records and made suspected straw gun sales to stop selling firearms - three years after the store was first notified its license was being revoked. The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives notified Shawano Gun & Loan it must stop selling guns on Sept. 18, according to a document filed this week by the U.S. attorney's office in Milwaukee. The ATF has allowed the store to keep selling guns for years as the revocation appeal crept forward. But this week the agency changed course. The change comes ...read the full article


El Paso Times Sep 8, 2010
40% of Guns Used in Mexico Crimes Originated in Texas
Forty percent of Mexico gun crimes traced by the ATF last year used guns originally sold in Texas, according to a report issued Tuesday by a coalition of U.S. mayors. The bipartisan advocacy group Mayors Against Illegal Guns reported that 2,076 guns recovered at crime scenes in Mexico were tracked to Texas by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives. Texas had the highest percentage of any state in the study. Another 36 percent of guns seized in Mexico were traced to sales in New Mexico, Arizona and California, according to the report by the coalition of 500 mayors. ...read the full article


Seattle Times Sep 8, 2010
Monfort Rants About Police in Court
Christopher Monfort, accused of killing a Seattle police officer last Halloween, tried his best Wednesday to interrupt a court hearing in his pending capital-murder case, issuing another diatribe against police misconduct. Monfort's interruptions in court are becoming routine, but this time Monfort was visibly angry, pounding his fist on the table as attorneys tried to hold the hearing over the din. Monfort added a new refrain in calling for the public to "awaken from your slumber" and openly carry weapons, a practice called "open carry." "If you won't protect each other, who is going to do it?" Monfort said as he was wheeled ...read the full article


Washington Post Sep 7, 2010
Editorial: The NRA Is Working to Gut the Latest Federal Gun Bill
ONLY ABOUT 10 percent of the nation's 100,000 licensed gun dealers are audited each year by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). The ATF cannot fine wayward dealers; its only tool at the moment involves revoking a miscreant's license. And that happens only about 100 times annually. But even this level of scrutiny rankles the National Rifle Association, which is pushing for legislation that threatens to gut the ATF's already limited ability to keep illegal guns off the streets. The bill, formally known as the ATF Reform and Firearms Modernization Act, is making headway in both houses of ...read the full article


ABC News Sep 7, 2010
Mexican Crime, American Guns
A shocking new report obtained by ABC News says that as many as three out of four guns used in crimes in Mexico can be traced to gun stores just across the border in the U.S. The numbers bolster complaints by Mexican officials that the country's unprecedented bloodshed - 28,000 people have died in drug-cartel violence since 2006 - is being fueled both by the U.S. appetite for drugs, and by American weapons. "We can say that there is enormous violence in Mexico and most of the killing is done with guns and most of the guns used in the ...read the full article