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FOX News Latino Apr 21, 2011
Massachusetts Sued Over Gun Rights of Legal Immigrants
The Second Amendment Foundation is leading a civil action lawsuit in federal district court against Massachusetts challenging a law that denies non-U.S. citizens the right to possess a handgun in their own homes. Under the current law in Massachusetts, legal permanent residents -- who carry what is commonly referred to as a "green card" -- are not allowed to hold a firearm identification card or license to carry of any kind. Instead, they must apply for a resident alien permit, which allows a person to possess only a "low capacity" rifle or shotgun. Therein lies the case. The SAF, a non-profit group ...read the full article
MSN Money Apr 21, 2011
Chicago Police Concerned About Conceal-Carry Bill
CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago police joined gun control groups Wednesday to voice concerns about flaws in Illinois' mental health screening system for would-be gun owners, problems that could be amplified with passage of a bill to allow permits for carrying concealed firearms. A 2009 Illinois State Police report cited "significant information gaps" in the state's ability to detect and screen out people with serious mental illnesses who might go on a shooting rampage. A state police official testified last week that those gaps still exist. Illinois falls short in its reporting of psychiatric hospital admissions to the FBI as required by a ...read the full article
MSNBC Apr 19, 2011
Mass. Court Upholds State Gun-Lock Requirement
BOSTON -- The highest court in Massachusetts on Wednesday upheld the constitutionality of a state law that requires gun owners to lock weapons in their homes in a ruling applauded by gun-control advocates. The case had been closely watched by both gun-control and gun-rights proponents. Massachusetts prosecutors argued that the law saves lives because it requires guns to be kept in a locked container or equipped with a trigger lock when not under the owner's control. The Second Amendment Foundation Inc., however, cited a 2008 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that said people have a constitutional right to keep weapons for self-defense. The state ...read the full article
Virginian-Pilot Apr 17, 2011
For Virginia Tech Wounded: Triumph After Tragedy
Tragedy is where this story opens - its first lines written on a cold spring morning four years ago. The 17 students who survived the Virginia Tech massacre refuse to let it end there. One by one, over time, all who were shot that day and lived found the courage to return to the college where they almost died. On crutches, or in wheelchairs, or with bullets still buried in their young bodies, all of them finished their classes and earned diplomas. Every single one. "I think it's incredible," said Megan Franklin, who worked in Tech's Office of Recovery and Support, opened in the ...read the full article
Roanoke Times Apr 16, 2011
Virginia Tech Tragedy Prompts Positive Changes
On March 13, 2007, a Virginia Tech student walked into a Roanoke gun store, armed with a credit card. A short time later, Seung-Hui Cho walked out of Roanoke Firearms, armed with a Glock 9 mm pistol. It was an unremarkable transaction. Cho said or did little to draw attention to himself, and a computer background check found no felony convictions or mental health commitments that would have barred him from buying a gun. Yet it soon became clear -- after Cho used the Glock and a second handgun to kill 32 students and professors, then himself, on the Tech campus four ...read the full article
Xinhua Apr 16, 2011
Virginia Tech Massacre Survivor Calls For Gun Control On 4th Anniversary of Shootings
WASHINGTON, April 15 (Xinhua) -- Colin Goddard was late for his French class in what he described as a "very normal Monday morning" on April 16, 2007, at Room 211 Norris Hall in Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, commonly known as Virginia Tech or simply V Tech. But Goddard wasn't the last one in his class to come in. Rachael Hill, an 18 year-old freshman, came in even later. She told her classmates there was a shooting in her dormitory, West Ambler Johnston Hall, just across the drill field. Because the dorm was sealed off, she couldn't ...read the full article
Daily Progress Apr 15, 2011
Film Tells Story Of Virgiia Tech Shooting
Saturday marks the four-year milestone. It was cold and windy on April 16, 2007, when a lone gunman terrorized Virginia Tech's campus. Armed with two semiautomatic handguns and 400 rounds of hollow-point bullets, he shot and shot and shot. He killed 32. He injured 17. Six others were hurt when they jumped out of the windows around Norris Hall. On Tuesday, one of those 17 survivors will be at the University of Virginia for a free screening of a new documentary film. If it hadn't been for Colin Goddard's efforts, the tally might have been even higher. Goddard was the only person inside Norris Hall to ...read the full article
ABC News Apr 13, 2011
Tucson Shooting Victim's Fiancee Talks Gun Control
(Statement by Kelly O'Brien, fiancée of Tucson shooting victim Gabe Zimmerman, in support of a ban on large capacity ammunition magazines during a lobbying trip to Washington, D.C. on April 12, 2011.) It has been just over three months since the Tucson tragedy. On January 8, a man armed with a semi-automatic handgun equipped with a magazine that held 30 bullets shot 19 people. Six of those people died, including my fiancée, Gabe Zimmerman. Gabe was the Community Outreach Director for Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was the target of the attack. Gabe was a great man. There are many reasons I loved Gabe. ...read the full article
Washington Post Apr 13, 2011
Fiancee of Slain Giffords Staffer Speaks Out Emotionally On Gun Control
On her first visit to Washington Tuesday, Kelly O'Brien didn't come to tour the nation's capital, visit the monuments or observe a session of Congress. O'Brien, a soft-spoken nurse, was in Washington Tuesday morning to speak out publicly against high-capacity magazines like the one used in January's shooting spree in Tucson that wounded 13 and killed six, including O'Brien's fiancee, Gabe Zimmerman. Zimmerman was the community outreach director for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), who was the target of the Tucson attack. Jared Lee Loughner is accused of being the gunman. At an emotional news conference in a small basement meeting room of ...read the full article
Huffington Post Apr 12, 2011
Fiancee Of Giffords Shooting Victim Works Hill As Gun Control Group Releases Chilling New Ad
WASHINGTON -- One of the nation's most powerful gun-control advocacy groups is out with a new ad, and a symbolic new spokesperson, in an effort to persuade Congress to outlaw clips that allow up to 32 shots without reloading. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence put out the new spot on Tuesday morning calling directly on President Obama to take a stand against high-capacity magazines -- the clip used by Jared Loughner, the alleged shooter of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and 19 others in Tucson. In conjunction with the ad's release, the group is deploying a powerful new congressional liaison. Kelly ...read the full article
Massachusetts Sued Over Gun Rights of Legal Immigrants
The Second Amendment Foundation is leading a civil action lawsuit in federal district court against Massachusetts challenging a law that denies non-U.S. citizens the right to possess a handgun in their own homes. Under the current law in Massachusetts, legal permanent residents -- who carry what is commonly referred to as a "green card" -- are not allowed to hold a firearm identification card or license to carry of any kind. Instead, they must apply for a resident alien permit, which allows a person to possess only a "low capacity" rifle or shotgun. Therein lies the case. The SAF, a non-profit group ...read the full article
MSN Money Apr 21, 2011
Chicago Police Concerned About Conceal-Carry Bill
CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago police joined gun control groups Wednesday to voice concerns about flaws in Illinois' mental health screening system for would-be gun owners, problems that could be amplified with passage of a bill to allow permits for carrying concealed firearms. A 2009 Illinois State Police report cited "significant information gaps" in the state's ability to detect and screen out people with serious mental illnesses who might go on a shooting rampage. A state police official testified last week that those gaps still exist. Illinois falls short in its reporting of psychiatric hospital admissions to the FBI as required by a ...read the full article
MSNBC Apr 19, 2011
Mass. Court Upholds State Gun-Lock Requirement
BOSTON -- The highest court in Massachusetts on Wednesday upheld the constitutionality of a state law that requires gun owners to lock weapons in their homes in a ruling applauded by gun-control advocates. The case had been closely watched by both gun-control and gun-rights proponents. Massachusetts prosecutors argued that the law saves lives because it requires guns to be kept in a locked container or equipped with a trigger lock when not under the owner's control. The Second Amendment Foundation Inc., however, cited a 2008 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that said people have a constitutional right to keep weapons for self-defense. The state ...read the full article
Virginian-Pilot Apr 17, 2011
For Virginia Tech Wounded: Triumph After Tragedy
Tragedy is where this story opens - its first lines written on a cold spring morning four years ago. The 17 students who survived the Virginia Tech massacre refuse to let it end there. One by one, over time, all who were shot that day and lived found the courage to return to the college where they almost died. On crutches, or in wheelchairs, or with bullets still buried in their young bodies, all of them finished their classes and earned diplomas. Every single one. "I think it's incredible," said Megan Franklin, who worked in Tech's Office of Recovery and Support, opened in the ...read the full article
Roanoke Times Apr 16, 2011
Virginia Tech Tragedy Prompts Positive Changes
On March 13, 2007, a Virginia Tech student walked into a Roanoke gun store, armed with a credit card. A short time later, Seung-Hui Cho walked out of Roanoke Firearms, armed with a Glock 9 mm pistol. It was an unremarkable transaction. Cho said or did little to draw attention to himself, and a computer background check found no felony convictions or mental health commitments that would have barred him from buying a gun. Yet it soon became clear -- after Cho used the Glock and a second handgun to kill 32 students and professors, then himself, on the Tech campus four ...read the full article
Xinhua Apr 16, 2011
Virginia Tech Massacre Survivor Calls For Gun Control On 4th Anniversary of Shootings
WASHINGTON, April 15 (Xinhua) -- Colin Goddard was late for his French class in what he described as a "very normal Monday morning" on April 16, 2007, at Room 211 Norris Hall in Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, commonly known as Virginia Tech or simply V Tech. But Goddard wasn't the last one in his class to come in. Rachael Hill, an 18 year-old freshman, came in even later. She told her classmates there was a shooting in her dormitory, West Ambler Johnston Hall, just across the drill field. Because the dorm was sealed off, she couldn't ...read the full article
Daily Progress Apr 15, 2011
Film Tells Story Of Virgiia Tech Shooting
Saturday marks the four-year milestone. It was cold and windy on April 16, 2007, when a lone gunman terrorized Virginia Tech's campus. Armed with two semiautomatic handguns and 400 rounds of hollow-point bullets, he shot and shot and shot. He killed 32. He injured 17. Six others were hurt when they jumped out of the windows around Norris Hall. On Tuesday, one of those 17 survivors will be at the University of Virginia for a free screening of a new documentary film. If it hadn't been for Colin Goddard's efforts, the tally might have been even higher. Goddard was the only person inside Norris Hall to ...read the full article
ABC News Apr 13, 2011
Tucson Shooting Victim's Fiancee Talks Gun Control
(Statement by Kelly O'Brien, fiancée of Tucson shooting victim Gabe Zimmerman, in support of a ban on large capacity ammunition magazines during a lobbying trip to Washington, D.C. on April 12, 2011.) It has been just over three months since the Tucson tragedy. On January 8, a man armed with a semi-automatic handgun equipped with a magazine that held 30 bullets shot 19 people. Six of those people died, including my fiancée, Gabe Zimmerman. Gabe was the Community Outreach Director for Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was the target of the attack. Gabe was a great man. There are many reasons I loved Gabe. ...read the full article
Washington Post Apr 13, 2011
Fiancee of Slain Giffords Staffer Speaks Out Emotionally On Gun Control
On her first visit to Washington Tuesday, Kelly O'Brien didn't come to tour the nation's capital, visit the monuments or observe a session of Congress. O'Brien, a soft-spoken nurse, was in Washington Tuesday morning to speak out publicly against high-capacity magazines like the one used in January's shooting spree in Tucson that wounded 13 and killed six, including O'Brien's fiancee, Gabe Zimmerman. Zimmerman was the community outreach director for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), who was the target of the Tucson attack. Jared Lee Loughner is accused of being the gunman. At an emotional news conference in a small basement meeting room of ...read the full article
Huffington Post Apr 12, 2011
Fiancee Of Giffords Shooting Victim Works Hill As Gun Control Group Releases Chilling New Ad
WASHINGTON -- One of the nation's most powerful gun-control advocacy groups is out with a new ad, and a symbolic new spokesperson, in an effort to persuade Congress to outlaw clips that allow up to 32 shots without reloading. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence put out the new spot on Tuesday morning calling directly on President Obama to take a stand against high-capacity magazines -- the clip used by Jared Loughner, the alleged shooter of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and 19 others in Tucson. In conjunction with the ad's release, the group is deploying a powerful new congressional liaison. Kelly ...read the full article