United States
Cops Who Carry, Kill with Guns Should be Allowed to Drink - Police Union
Daily News (California), Opinion
4 Dec 2008
Earlier this year, an off-duty New York City police detective was trying to help a beating victim when the assailant pulled out a TEC-9 handgun and began firing at the officer outside a night club. Detective Ivan Davison, a 15-year veteran of the department, returned fire, wounded the gunman and called 911. The city's newspapers heralded Davison as a hero and said that he deserved the Medal of Honor. The city's police commissioner said Davison "took appropriate and courageous police action to end the threat of death or serious injury to himself and others." Davison was returned to duty after an investigation found he acted properly. But if Davison was... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Husband & Wife Burgled 60 Missouri Homes, Stole 150 Guns for Resale
Associated Press
4 Dec 2008
TROY, Missouri -- Authorities say a husband-and-wife burglary team robbed about 60 homes in rural eastern Missouri and deputies discovered 100 guns at the home of the man accused of selling the stolen loot online. All the houses were robbed in broad daylight in the last 45 days, authorities said. Police said Kibb Patrick Howard and Carla Kay Howard confessed and said they needed money to feed their addiction to heroin. Deputies said the guns, jewelry, television and other valuables were sold online by Michael Carl Sifrit, who knew the goods were stolen. All three face multiple state charges and authorities are seeking federal indictments, Lincoln... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Ohio Man Says He Accidentally Shot, Injured Estranged Wife During Sex
Live Science
4 Dec 2008
A 38-year-old man in Springfield, Ohio, told police he was reaching for something on the nightstand during sex when his pistol went off and shot his estranged wife in the chest, according to a local news report. Timothy Havens previously served 60 days in jail for assaulting Carolyn Havens, 42, who is now in the hospital. The shooting comes just a handful of days after NFL player Plaxico Burress accidentally shot himself in the thigh in a Manhattan nightclub. While the Burress incident made big headlines, Carolyn Havens' tragedy is a far more common affair in this country where people shoot themselves or other family members far more frequently than... ( gunpolicy.org )
Rwanda
Rwanda to Mark All State Firearms, But Apparently to Exempt Army Guns
New Times (Kigali)
4 Dec 2008
KIGALI -- Rwanda National Police (RNP) will today train nine police and army officers on how to mark firearms using a new electronic machine ahead of a general exercise that will see all government owned firearms marked. The head of RNP's Firearms Registry, Chief Supt. Joel Ndahiro during a press briefing ahead of the exercise stressed that, "Marking of firearms will assist in tracing the movement of arms across national boundaries and provide necessary information to minimise proliferation of small arms and control crime in the region." The two-day training starts today at police headquarters in Kacyiru. The state-of-the-art- MC 2000 electronic marking... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
US Gun Control Won 90% of its Election Races, Gun Lobby Lost 80%
AlterNet (USA), Web Page
4 Dec 2008
Last month, voters across the country took a cue from the late Charlton Heston and pried the assault weapon from the NRA's cold, dead hands. Although the gun group unleashed everything in its arsenal to defeat Barack Obama and dozens of down ticket gun-control candidates, it lost by a margin as historic as the war chest it opened in an attempt to convince voters that Democrats were mortal enemies of the Second Amendment. Despite expending nearly $7 million in a national fear campaign, NRA-endorsed candidates lost 80 percent of their races against gun-control candidates. More than 90 percent of candidates endorsed by the NRA's nemesis, the Brady Campaign to Prevent... ( gunpolicy.org )
Ghana, West Africa
West Africa Indecisive on Gun Control, Says Small Arms NGO
Inter Press Service News Agency
4 Dec 2008
ACCRA -- It is estimated that there are eight million small arms in circulation in the West African subregion, with grave consequences for the region's security. "[The weapons have] led to civil wars in the past and fuelled some of the ethnic clashes all over the region. Some of these arms have found their way into the Niger Delta in Nigeria," says Baffour Amoa, President of the West Africa Network on Small Arms. "There is no way that one can give the exact figure on illicit arms," he told IPS. "It is estimated that Ghana has about 200,000 of such arms in circulation." Amoa said many of the conflicts recorded in the region would not have been... ( gunpolicy.org )
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