United States
US Gun Lobby Attack Ads Aim to Defeat Obama in Battleground States
ABC News (USA) / Political Punch, Blog
21 Oct 2008
In battleground states Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin, the National Rifle Association will be taking aim at Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., with this new ad. [Link to video of TV ad] "Imagine your child screaming in the middle of the night when a convicted felon breaks into your home," the narrator says. "Worse, he comes back a second time. You use a firearm to defend yourself and your family. Unbelievably, Obama voted to make you the criminal..." It goes on from there. The ad refers to a 2003 incident when a Wilmette, Ill., restaurateur named Hale DeMar shot and... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Stray Bullet from Parking Lot Kills Georgia Mother of 3 in Her Apartment
Fort Mill Times (South Carolina)
21 Oct 2008
DECATUR, Georgia -- A mother of three children is dead after DeKalb County police say a stray bullet went into her apartment. The woman's three children -- ages 11, 9 and 8 -- were in the home at the time but were not hurt. Police said they don't know if the children saw the shooting. DeKalb County Police spokeswoman Mekka Parish says the woman, whose name was not released, was struck in the back around 9 p.m. Monday. She was later pronounced dead at a hospital. Parish says the bullet appears to have been fired from the parking lot of the complex where the woman lived. ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Stray Bullet Death: Vermont Town Could Even Ban Gunfire in Back Yards
WPTZ-TV News (Vermont)
21 Oct 2008
ESSEX, Vermont -- The Essex Select Board is reviewing the town's firearms ordinance after a man was killed by a stray bullet last month. John Rice, 73, was killed in his own home after a shot was fired from a rifle used during a target practice session in a neighbor's yard, police said. The Select Board is looking into changing the rules on where people can fire a gun in Essex. Right now, people can shoot a gun in certain parts of town, but some residents want to ban that. Hunters have said they should be able to hunt on their own land. The Select Board said it will not act until police complete their investigation. The state crime... ( gunpolicy.org )
Philippines
Sleeping at Home, 4 Year-old Girl Killed by Stray Bullet in Philippines
Daily Star (Visayan)
21 Oct 2008
A 4-year-old girl was killed Sunday reportedly after being hit by a stray bullet in the head, in Brgy. Santa Cruz, Murcia, Negros Occidental. The victim who was identified as Jenwell Iwayan, 4, was sleeping with her parents inside a "cuartel", when gunshots were heard Saturday night, Senior Inspector Rico Santotome, of the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office, said. Iwayan, daughter of migrant couple who are farm workers from Negros Oriental, was rushed to the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Hospital in Bacolod City. However, she died the next day. ( gunpolicy.org )
South Africa, Mozambique
Routine Destruction of Guns Curbs Weapon Trafficking in Southern Africa
Times (Johannesburg)
21 Oct 2008
About 180km north of Maputo, near the lagoon lodges of Bilene, lies Mozambique's most expensive 8m-deep crater. Mangled bits of gun barrels and shrapnel strewn about the periphery hint at the explosive end of three weeks of hard slog in searing heat in the South African and Mozambican police's joint Operation Rachel. Within milliseconds, four tonnes of commercial explosives rip through weapons that left thousands killed and maimed during the Felimo-Renamo civil war, reducing the haul of almost 7000 guns, hundreds of mortar bombs, grenades and 7million rounds of ammunition to shrapnel. The explosion, the 29th of its kind in 12 years, was the... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Obama Pledges to Protect Americans' Right to Buy, Own and Use Guns
Lake Elmo Leader (Minnesota)
21 Oct 2008
CASS LAKE, Minnesota -- While Al Franken forayed into northern Minnesota on Sunday, the National Rifle Association's Political Victory Fund filled the airwaves with radio ads stating that the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate plans to take away citizens' guns. In the ad, a wife questions her husband's reading of Al Franken's books. He cites several anti-gun passages, including one where Franken writes it is better to collect baseball cards than guns. The man notes that U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., has stood for Second Amendment rights to bear arms, and should be trusted over Franken. "I'm not going to take anyone's guns away," Franken said Sunday... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Judges Call US High Court Gun Ban Ruling 'Illegitimate, Activist, Political'
New York Times
21 Oct 2008
WASHINGTON -- Four months after the Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess guns, its decision is under assault -- from the right. Two prominent federal appeals court judges say that Justice Antonin Scalia's majority opinion in the case, District of Columbia v. Heller, is illegitimate, activist, poorly reasoned and fueled by politics rather than principle. The 5-to-4 decision in Heller struck down parts of a District of Columbia gun control law. The judges used what in conservative legal circles are the ultimate fighting words: They said the gun ruling was a right-wing version of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision... ( gunpolicy.org )
Canada
Canadian Gun Shop Loses 80 Handguns, Rifles, Shotguns to Thieves
Canadian Press
21 Oct 2008
VERNON, British Columbia -- Thieves stole up to $50,000 worth of guns and weapons from a gunsmith in Vernon, B.C. RCMP say the culprits cut alarm wires, broke in through a skylight and slashed the ceiling to enter the shop of Del Selin Gunsmiths. Forty handguns, 40 shotguns and rifles were taken, along with various scopes, binoculars and knives. The break-in occurred sometime between closing Saturday night and opening this morning and the thieves left through the front door of the shop. Police have no suspects and they're asking anyone with information to call them or Crimestoppers. ( gunpolicy.org )
Canada
Banning Handguns a 'Superficial Fix' for Canada's Armed Violence
Blue Mountains Courier-Herald (Ontario), Editorial
21 Oct 2008
Premier Dalton McGuinty and Toronto Mayor David Miller are among the many voices calling for more stringent gun control, in particular a ban on handguns. With gun violence getting massive attention prior to the election, voters might have expected gun control to be a significant topic of conversation during the campaign, particularly for Conservative candidates with their 'tough-on-crime' platform. Yet, while the Tories have a law-and-order platform that would see 14 year olds charged with murder tried and sentenced as adults, nary a word has been uttered about gun control. Gun control is one of those issues that separate the rural and urban... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
72 Handguns, Sniper, Assault Rifles Seized in New York Drug Busts
Watertown Daily Times (New York)
21 Oct 2008
CANTON -- Police and federal agents arrested 20 drug suspects during a series of early-morning raids Monday around St. Lawrence County. Most of the 20 suspects were arraigned Monday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Syracuse before Magistrate Judge David E. Peebles on various drug charges, the U.S. attorney's office said. Four more suspects remain at large. "This is a milestone in combating drug trafficking in St. Lawrence County," St. Lawrence County District Attorney Nicole M. Duvé said at a press conference. She called the group "one of the main" drug operators in the county. Today's raids were the second action taken against the group.... ( gunpolicy.org )
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