Senior Democrats have reached agreement with the National Rifle Association on what could be the first federal gun-control legislation since 1994, a measure to significantly strengthen the national system that checks the backgrounds of gun buyers.
Advocates for the mentally ill are questioning Houston police officers' use of stun guns on suspects with mental problems, many of whom were unarmed and then never charged with a crime.
It's funny how a gun can in stantly change your perspec tive on things, make you wish you could rewrite history. State Rep. Michael DeBose, a southside Cleveland Democrat, discovered this lesson the night of May 1, when he thought he was going to die. That's the night he wished he had that gun vote back.
The National Rifle Association is urging the Bush administration to withdraw its support of a bill that would prohibit suspected terrorists from buying firearms. Backed by the Justice Department, the measure would give the attorney general the discretion to block gun sales, licenses or permits to terror suspects.
Since 1999 when the US experienced a 30 year low in violent crime, most US cities have experienced a dramatic increase in gun violence. The difference between then and now is that the gun lobby now dictates national gun policy, and the deadly trend will continue until the President and Congress enact effective uniform national gun laws that ...
The "gun-free zone" fraud isn't just about banning firearms or even a symptom of academia's distaste for an entire sensibility of which the Second Amendment is part and parcel but part of a deeper reluctance of critical segments of our culture to engage with reality. Michelle Malkin wrote a column a few days ago connecting the prohibition
In the week after the shootings at Virginia Tech, Congress is inching toward a legislative response, with an unlikely pair of lawmakers teaming up to push a bill to strengthen background checks to prevent the mentally ill and some others from buying guns.
There have been the usual howls from the anti-gun lobby, but it's all hot air. America is not about to dump the Second Amendment to the US Constitution giving people the right--albeit an increasingly circumscribed one -- to bear arms.
As people all over the country send their support and mourn the victims of the Virginia Tech tragedy, two major issues are being discussed: mental health and gun control.
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In the aftermath of Monday's deadly shooting in Blacksburg, Virginia, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is proposing a comprehensive, three-point plan to deal with the violence plaguing America, including a ban on handguns. Never mind our rights..
The 22-caliber Walther semi-automatic pistol used by Cho Seung-Hui in the Virginia Tech massacre was purchased on the Internet from a Green Bay, Wisconsin-based Web site, The Gun Source.
Jack Thompson, as well as anyone else trying to push an agenda in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre, should be ashamed of themselves for taking advantage of the national conscious amidst the confusion caused by Monday's tragedy.
The mother of a kindergartner was charged with assault Thursday and banned from school after officials said she walked into the child's classroom, pointed a toy cap gun at students and pulled the trigger several times.
32 people murdered. 29 others wounded. Honestly, I can't wrap my mind around the enormity of what happened at Virginia Tech. Others don't seem to have that problem. It's as if 32 dead college students are nothing more than fodder for political points of view on gun control.
Switzerland has year after year turned in one of the world's lowest murder rates even while sending machine guns to every home of every member of their citizen army. And they do not keep their machine guns in safes or encumbered with trigger locks. They keep them at the ready.
The murders on the Virginia Tech campus, the worst such rampage in our history, might have been mitigated if just one member of the faculty or a student had the means to return fire.
Virginia General Assembly failed to act on House Bill 1572. This bill would have allowed college students and employees to carry handguns on campus with appropriate permits. It died in subcommittee. Larry Hincker, Virginia Tech spokeperson, "I'm sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly's actions because this wil
The 35-year-old woman handled her 9 mm Glock with ease. For three straight days, she honed her aim and hit bull's-eye after bull's-eye from the firing line at the Boston Gun Range.
A new Texas law will protect you from being sued if you shoot someone for breaking into your house or attempting rape/murder. About time. FTA: "The law also provides civil immunity for a person who lawfully slays an intruder or attacker".
Anti-gun Democrats are trying to make up for lost time by reintroducing legislation intended to ban so-called "assault" weapons, a Second Amendment group warns.
Although British and US military and diplomats often complain of Iranian support for insurgents in Iraq, there is no "smoking gun" to prove it, a senior British officer in Basra admitted yesterday.
Even the best police gumshoe can go in circles chasing down a reported gunshot. Was the sound echoing from another direction? Was it just a firecracker? Sorting it out takes precious minutes - especially if a victim lies wounded, or a criminal is slipping away.Enter gunshot detection technology.
IT'S a phenomenon that gives the term "gun control" a whole new meaning: community ordinances that encourage citizens to own guns.
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Imagine using the restroom at your local bank and finding a loaded handgun on the back of the toilet. A Guaranty Bank employee discovered the gun Tuesday and called police, said Brookfield police Capt. Phil Horter.
Normally when we show these cool robot things they're in the design phase, but this one is actually up for sale in Japan for $315,000!











