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The Compton Weapon Exchange
The Los Angeles Times reports on the surprise customer who turned up at their gun exchange this week.Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies expected heavy business Tuesday during the department's "gift for guns" program in Compton. And sure enough, s...
Detroit Shooting - 3 Dead, 1 Wounded
The Chicago Tribune reports on the terrible shooting that took place in Detroit.Three people were fatally shot and another wounded when two men opened fire at a house on the city's east side.Police haven't determined a motive, but Deputy Chief James ...
Gun Trafficking Prevention Act of 2009
On the web site of U.S. Senator from New York, Kristen Gillibrand, there's a wonderful explanation of the recently proposed Gun Trafficking Prevention Act of 2009.A new measure aimed at eliminating the steady flow of illegal guns into New York is bei...
Vegas Gunrunners - The Weiss Brothers
The Mercury News reports on the guilty verdict in the case of the Weiss brothers in Las Vegas.William Weiss, 37, was dressed in street clothes. A large man who was free on bail, he kept his chunky hands nervously clasped behind his back. Jonnatan Wei...
Jamaican Guns
The Jamaica Observer printed a letter to the editor concerning the gun problem on the island.Dear Editor, Gun violence is all over Jamaica, every day, every month and every year. It is the main cause of homicide. Gun violence does not exist because w...
New York City Traces Guns Used in Crime
The Manhattan News at DNA Info reports on the tracing of two guns used in the Upper West Side shooting. Thanks to Microdot for pointing this story out the me a few days ago. It's now taken on new interest.When three generations of a family were foun...
New York Helps Indiana
WishTV.com reported on the appointment of Frank Straub as Public Safety Director of Indianapolis.Straub has a doctorate in criminal justice. He became commissioner of Public Safety in White Plains, New York in 2002.Before going to White Plains, Strau...
More Gun Buy Back Programs
Boston.com reports on a Worcester buy-back program which netted 85 guns. In a program that Worcester doctors and police hope will reduce injuries from gun accidents, residents of that city can turn in guns today and next Saturday in exchange for gift...
Hawaii Man Shoots Wife in Hospital
The Honolulu Advertiser reports on a shooting incident in the hospital.Castle Medical Center has banned a 71-year-old man who allegedly shot his terminally ill wife at the hospital from visiting the facility.Robert Yagi, of the Olomana neighborhood i...
MA State Trooper Severely Reprimanded
The Cape Cod Times reports on the case of Lt. Richard Bolduc, 52, of Sandwich who was punished for not securing his weapon properly at home.In June 2008, the veteran trooper's son, who was 12 at the time, grabbed Bolduc's Sig Sauer P226 .40-caliber ...
More About Responisbility and Blame
Buzzflash ran a very strong piece about the role the NRA plays in the continuous gun violence in America. The title sums it up nicely. "When It Comes to Enabling the Terrorism of Gun Deaths in America, No One Beats the NRA"The NRA represents a fanati...
Gun Trafficking Prevention Act of 2009
The North Country Gazette published an article describing the new proposed legislation being pushed by U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Rep. Carolyn McCarthy.Gillibrand and McCarthy unveiled the Gun Trafficking Prevention Act of 2009 last week in ...
Taking Guns from Kids
The Savannah Morning News reports on a new program in which young gang members are being deprived of the tools of their trade.Not long ago, a Savannah public housing officer was contacted by a mother concerned about her child."He was talking about al...
Here It Comes: Gun Registration
The Seattle Gun Rights Examiner published an article about the possibility of gun registration coming in the near future.Did Attorney General Eric Holder recently “spill the beans” on the Obama administration’s desires to implement some kind of...
Jared T. Cox Sentenced to Three Months
Helena.com reports on the sentencing of Jared Cox for having purchased the gun for Sebastian Olivares-Coster with which he killed one and wounded two. We recently discussed Sebastian when he changed his plea to guilty.A Helena man who supplied the ha...
Deadly Shooting in Oregon
Katu.com reports on a deadly police shooting in Cornelius, Oregon. Listening to our friend kaveman, I was starting to think the State of Oregon was some kind of Pacific Paradise of Peace. In a recent discussion about guns in bars, he said one can ev...
Bloomberg\'s War on the Illegal Possession of Guns
The New York Times reports on Bloomberg's war on the illegal possession of guns. Actually the title of the article incorporates the misleading expression "illegal guns." I use the lengthier "illegal possession of guns" in order to avoid a tedious di...
Guns Save Lives
NewsLeader.com posted a response to all the recent gun control talk generated by the Ft. Hood incident. Responding to a letter citing the terrible tragedies of Ft. Hood and Virginia Tech as examples crying out for gun control, the article reminds us ...
Nashville Judge Claudia Bonnyman
Reuters reports on the controversial ruling in Tennessee concerning the right to bring concealed weapons into bars and restaurants. Yesterday, Sebastian referred to it as a setback for gun rights.NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - A judge on Friday blo...
Smuggling Guns to the Zetas
The Houston Chronicle reports on the latest take-down in the ATF's attempts to stop the flow of guns into Mexico.A Houston windshield repairman has admitted to helping manage a part of a broader conspiracy to traffic more than 300 military-style weap...
Sebastian W. Olivares-Coster Pleads Guilty
The Independent Record reports on the guilty plea entered by Sebastian W. Olivares-Coster. We talked about him before here and here.[He] admitted Wednesday to intentionally shooting and trying to kill three teenage boys in a seemingly unprovoked atta...
It Was the Dog\'s Fault
Mercury News reports on an incident which took place in San Luis Obispo, California.A man is blaming his dog for his wife's shooting death in San Luis Obispo County. Twenty-five-year-old John Norris is charged with involuntary manslaughter for sh...
The Guns Flowing into Mexico
The site called Mexico's Drug War posted an interesting article about the suggestion recently published in the Washington Post that reinstating the Assault Weapons Ban would help the problem of Mexican war violence. It was Jerry Seper, former Bush ai...
Are Gun Sales Going Up or Down?
The Times Online published an article about how gun sales are going up and expected to continue rising.Smith & Wesson, the famed American gun maker once owned by Tomkins, the British conglomerate, expects to nearly double its annual sales in the ...
It Can Happen Anywhere - Part II
CBS affiliate, WRGB reports on the Pine Plains Middle School, attempting to return to normal after the hostage incident which took place the other day.On Thursday the bucolic main street in Pine Plains,60 miles south of Albany,was a far cry from the ...
The Newark Gun Buy-Back
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports on the results of the latest gun buy-back program in the Garden State.A gun-buyback program has turned into a local version of "cash for clunkers."Newark police say the 280 guns turned in Wednesday and yesterday, the...
More Incidents of Murder - Suicide
The Portland Republican Examiner ran an article by Peggy Bodner lamenting the fact that there have been two more murder - suicides.On Tuesday, 39 year old Robert Beiser shot and killed his wife Teresa at her work at Legacy Metro Lab in Tualatin, befo...
The U.S. - Mexico Task Force
The Washington Post reports on the latest from the U.S. - Mexico Task Force.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 ...
Tracing Firearms in Connecticut
The Fairfield County Weekly reports on the failed attempts in Connecticut to trace firearms used in crime. Connecticut's Statewide Firearms Trafficking Task Force which was created to deal with this has become another victim of Connecticut's budget ...
More Men Killing Women
The Associated Press reports on a chilling triple homicide.Illinois State Police say a suspect has been arrested in a weekend East St. Louis shooting that killed three women as they sat in a car with kids who managed to escape unharmed.Illinois State...
