United Kingdom, Northern Ireland
'Fanatic' Gun Collector Converted Weapons for Profit, Not Irish Loyalists
NewsLetter.co.uk
20 Oct 2008
The north Belfast gun expert who shot himself last week was selling weapons that he converted to fire live ammunition purely for profit, it has been claimed. Billy Bell, who was in his 50s and a former member of the UDR, is thought to have killed himself with one of the more than 70 weapons found in his house in Ballysillan following his death, along with more than a thousand rounds of ammunition. More weapons were subsequently discovered in lock-up premises in the Crumlin area. The UVF was initially held responsible for having the arsenal, sparking concerns about the organisation's intentions after it claimed it was putting all its weapons... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Gun Lobby 'Drives Voting Behavior,' Defeats Gun Control in Pennsylvania
Morning Call (Pennsylvania)
20 Oct 2008
Roughly four years ago, state lawmakers from the Philadelphia region grew tired of the gun violence that plagued the city's neighborhoods and looked to Harrisburg for relief. They analyzed and gauged the political winds on numerous pieces of gun control legislation aimed at slowing the bloodshed, such as limiting gun purchases to one a month and banning assault rifles in the city. But a proposal to require residents across the state to report their lost or stolen guns stood out among the rest. Not because it was the most effective remedy, but because polls and political instinct told them it would face the least opposition from the state's powerful gun... ( gunpolicy.org )
Papua New Guinea
Illegal Guns, Armed Violence Still 'A Major Problem' for Bougainville
Post-Courier (Port Moresby)
20 Oct 2008
The presence of weapons throughout the Autonomous Region of Bougainville is a major problem for the Autonomous Government. Ministers Joseph Watawi (Trade and Industry, Tourism, Customs, Quarantine, Port Services Micro Finance), Ezekiel Massatt (Police, Public Service, Planning) and Glynne Tovirika (Veteran Affairs) and Gerard Sinato (Health) attended a reconciliation ceremony at Sanakova village in the Selau/Suir District of North Bougainville. The same sentiment was echoed by North Bougainville MP and Minister for Higher Education Science and Technology, Michael Ogio. They all praised local leader and businessman Isuvius Omi for the time and... ( gunpolicy.org )
Russia
Russian Police Among Gun Runners Charged in 90-gun Moscow Bust
BBC Worldwide Monitoring / Ekho Moskvy radio (Moscow) / Gazprom, Transcript
20 Oct 2008
Last weekend the FSB [Federal Security Service] and the Russian Interior Ministry carried out a large-scale operation against criminal gangs that had been involved in illegal production and sale of firearms, a high-ranking source in Russian law enforcement agencies has told RIA Novosti. The source said that as a result of the operation, which was carried out in Moscow, Moscow Region and Smolensk Region, more than 90 units of firearms had been seized. More than 10 members of criminal gangs involved in the production and sale of weapons were arrested. A total of over 40 searches at various locations were carried out. [Interfax news agency, Moscow, in Russian... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Stray Bullet Fired by 14yr-old Boy Kills 16yr-old Girl in San Francisco
San Francisco Chronicle
20 Oct 2008
Jonisha Tucker caught a 5:45 a.m. bus every school day to make a 1½-hour trip to George Washington High in the Richmond District, taking her far from her housing project in San Francisco's Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood. Family members hoped the school -- along with their supervision -- would protect her from the drugs, gangs and violence surrounding the Alice Griffith housing development, where the 16-year-old girl grew up with her mother and two older brothers. It didn't. Drawn to watch a fight just blocks from her home last week, the random violence that her family feared found her: Police said a 14-year-old boy fired a shot during the... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Texas School Teachers Claim They Carry Hidden Handguns to Class
Agence France Presse
20 Oct 2008
The United States doesn't only have to wrestle with economic and political issues. At the classroom level, all is not right either. Teachers at a tiny Texas country school packed a gun along with their lesson plans when classes started this term. The isolated, 110-student school near the border with Oklahoma is thought to be the first in the US to allow guns in the classroom. School officials say arming teachers is the only way to protect the old brick schoolhouse, which is 30 minutes from the nearest police station. "How do you stop the angry person without enough sense?" said school superintendent David Thweatt of the Harrold Independent... ( gunpolicy.org )
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