Ukraine, Kenya, United Nations
Global Gun Trade Thrives: Recent Example 40,000 Kalashnikovs to Kenya
Time (World)
14 Oct 2008
PARIS -- Need to start a war? No problem. While stock markets gyrate and financial institutions (and even whole countries, like Iceland) teeter on bankruptcy, one global industry is still drawing plenty of high-end trades and profits: weapons. In a Paris courtroom last week, 42 officials went on trial for taking millions in kickbacks and organizing huge arms commissions from the Angolan government during the mid-1990s. In the dock were such big names as Charles Pasqua, a former French Interior Minister; Jean-Christophe Mitterrand, the son of the late French President François Mitterrand; and Russian-Israeli billionaire Arkadi Gaydamak, who is currently a candidate... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Judge Returns Pistol Permit to Gun-toting Pennsylvania Soccer Mom
Associated Press
14 Oct 2008
LEBANON, Pennsylvania -- A mother who angered fellow parents when she openly carried a pistol to her 5-year-old daughter's soccer game got her concealed weapons permit back Tuesday after a Pennsylvania judge overruled a sheriff's decision to revoke it. Meleanie Hain lost the permit after other parents complained about the presence of the gun during a soccer game on Sept. 11. Lebanon County Judge Robert Eby, who said he also is a gun owner with a concealed weapons permit, said the law required him to return Hain's permit. But he questioned her judgment, saying she "scared the devil" out of others at the soccer field. "Fear doesn't belong at a... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Obama's Gun Control Views, McCain's Gun Rights Positions Outlined
Columbus Dispatch (Ohio)
14 Oct 2008
Question: "I would like to know how Sen. Obama stands on the Second Amendment. As far as gun rights, what specifically would he support and oppose?" -- Dave Hiatt, Dayton truck driver Answer: Like so much else about a race whose crossroads seem to run through Ohio, Barack Obama has framed his stand on gun rights through a Buckeye State prism. Here's what Obama said during his acceptance speech Aug. 28 at the Democratic National Convention in Denver: "The reality of gun ownership may be different for hunters in rural Ohio than they are for those plagued by gang violence in Cleveland, but don't tell me we can't uphold the Second Amendment while... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Obama Told Me That People Shouldn't Be Able to Own Guns - John Lott
Philadelphia Inquirer, Opinion
14 Oct 2008
Barack Obama claims he is a friend of gun owners. He certainly has convinced the media. On Thursday, the Los Angeles Times said the NRA's opposition to Obama seemed strange because "Obama does not oppose gun rights. He has made a point of pounding this home to rural audiences, telling them he has no intention of taking their guns away: not their shotguns, not their handguns, not anything." From the Boston Globe to FactCheck.org, the media and their watchdogs have uncritically recited Obama's statement that he believes there is an individual right to own guns. How does Brooks Jackson, FactCheck.org's director, explain the NRA's opposition to Obama? He... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Pennsylvania City Plans to Compel Gun Owners to Report Missing Guns
WHP-CBS 21 TV News (Pennsylvania)
14 Oct 2008
Tuesday night, Lancaster City Council held the first reading of a proposed ordinance that would make hand gun owners responsible for notifying police if they discover their gun is either lost or stolen. They would have 72 hours from when they make the discovery to report it to Lancaster police or risk facing a fine of up to $1,000 or a maximum of 90 days in jail. "It isn't gun control," Mayor Rick Gray told CBS 21. "We don't, in any way, attempt to control the rights of individuals to own and possess firearms." Gray added, "All we ask is they do the common sense thing, and the civically responsible thing and that is, if a gun is lost or stolen,... ( gunpolicy.org )
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