United States
Dealers, Traffickers Use Lax Pennsylvania Law to Fuel Interstate Gun Crime
Philadelphia Inquirer (Pennsylvania)
23 Mar 2008
When Trenton crack dealer Sean Hagins spotted the Pennsylvania tags and NRA sticker on a customer's pickup, he saw opportunity. Hagins had been dealing drugs for years, was an ex-felon with a history of psychiatric problems; he could not buy guns himself. The customer, David Downs, had a nasty crack habit and had been laid off from a Bensalem belt factory. Downs told a jury at the federal courthouse in Philadelphia that Hagins spotted the sticker on his truck and asked him if he could help him get some guns in Pennsylvania -- where they're far easier to buy than in New Jersey. "I told him yes," Downs testified last month. By the time... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
US Gun Shows Would Have to Close If Held Liable for Firearm Violence
WSLW-TV News (Virginia)
23 Mar 2008
ROANOKE, Virginia -- Hundreds of people lined up at the Roanoke Valley Gun Show this weekend. Shows like these are still a hot topic since the General Assembly voted not to close the so-called gun show loophole, which would have required background checks for gun sales at these shows. To Steven Elliott, a gun show spokesman, there is no loophole. "There's nothing that takes place in a gun show that can't take place anywhere else. A legal sale in a gun show is a legal sale anywhere," said Elliott. Elliott says there are so many gun regulations, they don't need anymore laws. As far as guns used in crimes, Elliott claims 0.7% of guns used... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
US Supremes Display Laissez-faire Attitudes to Gun Safety in the Home
Huffington Post (USA), Blog
23 Mar 2008
The dust is only beginning to settle in the wake of oral arguments heard before the U.S. Supreme Court on March 18 in the historic case of Heller v. District of Columbia. The day featured several lively exchanges, as both the justices and the attorneys for the two sides in the case sought to divine the historical context and present-day implications of the Second Amendment. At issue in the Heller case are the District's tough gun laws, which effectively ban handguns and require those who own long guns (i.e., shotguns and rifles) to keep them unloaded and either trigger-locked or disassembled in the home. The lead Plaintiff in the case, D.C. resident Dick Anthony... ( gunpolicy.org )
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