United States
Licensed US Gun Owner and Wife Clean Guns: Daughter, 6, Shot Dead
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
18 Nov 2008
MARYSVILLE -- A 42-year-old man told police that he accidentally shot and killed his 6-year- old daughter Sunday after drinking double vodkas while cleaning guns. Stormy Peters was shot in the head and died after being flown to Seattle Children's hospital. Her father, Richard D. Peters, was booked into the Snohomish County Jail for investigation of first-degree manslaughter, a felony. Monday afternoon, a judge ordered him held on $250,000 bail. Police say Peters called authorities about 7:30 p.m. Sunday from his Marysville home in the 4500 block of 83rd Place Northwest. The distraught father told police he had asked his daughter to... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States, United Nations
'Not Enough Americans Are Afraid' Says US Gun Lobby Chief LaPierre
Ashland Times-Gazette (Ohio)
18 Nov 2008
Historic victories for gun rights occurred in 2008, but the fight for firearm freedoms must continue to preserve the Second Amendment, National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre told a crowd on Monday at Ashland University. Despite the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to strike down a handgun ban in Washington D.C., that affirmed the right to keep and bear arms, there is a battle for firearms ownership in America, LaPierre said. He urged NRA members and firearms owners to stay vigilant while pressures mount domestically and internationally for them to disarm. LaPierre said during the Major Issues Lecture Series at the John M. Ashbrook... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
US Feds, Gun Dealers Blame Customers, Tout Voluntary Self-regulation
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (New Jersey), Media release
18 Nov 2008
NEWARK, New Jersey -- The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and representatives from the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) -- the trade association for the firearms industry -- today jointly announced a major campaign to reduce significantly the illegal straw purchases of firearms in New Jersey. The program, called "Don't Lie for the Other Guy," was developed to raise public awareness that it is a serious crime to purchase a firearm for someone who cannot legally do so or for someone who does not otherwise want his or her name associated with the purchase. The program is also designed to educate firearms dealers on how to better... ( gunpolicy.org )
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