United States
Arizonans See 8yr-old Boy Shooting Dad, Boarder as Just 'Unexplainable'
Associated Press
9 Nov 2008
ST. JOHNS, Arizona -- People in this small, tight-knit community are reeling from the killing of a well-liked man police say was shot by his own 8-year-old son, and they will likely turn out in droves for his funeral. "I don't think this church is big enough to handle it all," said the Very Rev. John Paul Sauter of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church. Vincent Romero, 29, and Timothy Romans, 39, a co-worker who also rented a room from him, were found dead inside Romero's home -- one at the entrance and one in an upstairs room. Police charged Romero's son with two counts of premeditated murder. "The recent tragedy in our community has been very... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States, Iraq, Jordan
Blackwater Faces Millions in Fines for 'Unauthorised' US-Iraq Gun Exports
Public Record (USA), Web Page
9 Nov 2008
Private security contractor Blackwater Worldwide may be slapped with millions of dollars in fines by the State Department for shipping weapons to law enforcement facilities in Iraq and Jordan without authorization, according to a report published in the magazine Government Executive. "Officials in the Commerce Department, which has jurisdiction over some military exports, are conducting a related regulatory review of Blackwater shipments," the magazine reported, citing unnamed sources. "And federal officials in North Carolina have convened a grand jury to consider criminal charges related to the arms shipments." In a separate development involving the... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Chicago Gun Runner Accused of Duping Gun Dealers, Killing, Torture
Chicago Sun-Times
9 Nov 2008
Bernard "Silver Dollar" Ellis didn't have the kind of upbringing you would expect of a hardened criminal. His dad was a steelworker. His mom worked for a bank. Some of his siblings got into law enforcement. A stable family. But Ellis got kicked out of high school because of a fight, and he has been in trouble ever since, suspected of extorting, torturing and even murdering his victims, authorities say. In 2005, he allegedly admitted to agents with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that he was the chief enforcer of the notorious Gangster Disciples street gang. Now he's serving about seven years behind bars... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Dad Wanted Son to Have Hunting Gun, 8yr-old Boy Murdered Dad, Friend
Associated Press
9 Nov 2008
ST. JOHNS, Arizona -- By all accounts, he was a good boy. No problems in school. No disruptions in his religious education classes at St. Johns Catholic Church, where he was to mark his First Communion this year. So the police and neighbors in the 8-year-old's small eastern Arizona community are at a loss to explain why he would have used a .22-caliber rifle to kill his father and another man at their home. "That child, I don't think he knows what he did, and it was brutal," said the family priest, the Very Reverend John Paul Sauter. The police said the boy killed his father, Vincent Romero, 29, and another man, Timothy Romans, 39, on Wednesday.... ( gunpolicy.org )
India
Fake Gun Licence Scam Implicates Range of Indian Security Companies
Calcutta News.Net / IANS
9 Nov 2008
A thirty-year-old man was arrested here for allegedly running a fake arms licenses racket, the police said here Sunday. A special operations group of the Noida Police nabbed Anil Yadav Saturday night and recovered two single-barrel guns, five double-barrel guns, two pistols, 40 live cartridges and 22 fake seals of the licencing authorities. Senior Superintendent of Police R.K. Chaturvedi said: 'Yadav made arms licenses by using fake stamps of senior officers posted at different places. We have seized fake stamps of district magistrates of Ferozpur, Jaisalmer, Ferozabad, Mainpuri, Udham Singh Nagar and Delhi. His gang may have many more such fake seals.'... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Obama Gun Ban Rumours Fuel Rush to Buy Assault Rifles, Ammunition
New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung (Texas)
9 Nov 2008
As I walked into the Saxet Gun Show in San Antonio last weekend, something seemed different. Since it was the first weekend of deer season, I expected the crowd to be somewhat smaller than usual. But it wasn't long before I realized that two items seemed to be selling quickly: so-called assault rifles and ammunition. A "gun show," in case you have never been, is usually held in a large facility. The Saxet Gun Show in San Antonio has been held in recent months in Freeman Coliseum near the AT&T Center. Vendors rent booths and display their guns, knives, ammunition and other accessories. Phone lines are installed so background checks and... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Web-fed Gun Lobby Fury Led to Removal of US Rifle Company Founder
Missoulian (Montana)
9 Nov 2008
Defector. Traitor. Turncoat. These qualifiers and others were recently applied to Dan Cooper, mostly by gun activists in cyberspace who spurned his much-publicized endorsement of President-elect Barack Obama. Through that endorsement -- and by donating $3,300 to the Obama campaign -- Cooper, the founder of a Stevensville rifle dealership, broke factional ranks with fellow shooters and sportsmen. Opinions, judgments and hostile sentiments flared up within the blogosphere at full tilt as gun partisans vowed to boycott Cooper-made rifles, calling on others to do the same with brio. While he drew some support from gun enthusiasts, that didn't stop... ( gunpolicy.org )
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