United States
South Carolina Dealer Lost 31 Handguns: Some Found in NYC, Connecticut
Greenville News (South Carolina)
27 Apr 2008
Richard Shumate says that when he received a call one night about an alarm going off at his Taylors gun shop he didn't know whether it was cause for excitement. "Sometimes it's a false alarm," he said. "I had some boxes fall off the shelf one night and set it off." This time, it wasn't boxes. Shumate said he arrived at Trader's Gun Shop to find two holes in the building and handguns missing. The burglary on March 15, 2006 triggered a yearlong investigation that yielded five guilty pleas, including one of a Seneca man who abandoned a gun in a New York City bus terminal, according to records filed in U.S. District Court in Hartford, Conn.,... ( gunpolicy.org )
Brazil
Protestors Place 2,000 Crosses for Victims of Gun Violence in Rio de Janeiro
IndiaTimes / Reuters
27 Apr 2008
On Saturday a group called "Peace for Rio" placed 2,000 crosses along one of Rio's main roads to commemorate the death of each person to have been gunned down in the city in 2008 thus far. Some 17 people are killed every day in Rio. Gun violence is the leading cause of death. "It is a real tragedy this massacre of human lives. Behind each of these crosses there is a family tragedy, those who are living and today are inconsolable after having a family member assassinated," said the President of "Peace for Rio" Antonio Costa. One of those grieving family members is Zeli Vidal who helped place the crosses along the roadside. She lost her son when he was... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Nashville Gun Dealer Applauds Mayors Trying to Close Gun Show Loophole
City Paper (Nashville)
27 Apr 2008
A national movement among urban mayors against illegal guns and the so-called "gun show loophole" has made its way to Knoxville and Memphis. Nashville Mayor Karl Dean said he is exploring joining that cause. Over 250 mayors from 40 states have signed on to the coalition, which seeks to cut down on the illegal purchasing and selling of guns. The first battlefront is eliminating the so-called "gun show loophole," which allows individual gun owners to sell to other private citizens without conducting background checks. As their latest television ad states, the movement has members who support presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States, Afghanistan, Iraq, Albania
Inferior Ammunition to Afghanistan Leads US Army to Review Arms Policy
New York Times
27 Apr 2008
MOSCOW -- The United States Army has begun a broad review of procedures used to supply security forces in Afghanistan and Iraq with foreign arms, prompted by an allegation of fraud and questions about the competence of the main private supplier of ammunition to Afghanistan. The company, AEY Inc. of Miami Beach, was suspended last month after Army investigators accused it of shipping aged Chinese rifle cartridges and claiming they were Hungarian. The Army decided to review its contracting procedures as several arms-industry officials said that long before the suspension, it was clear the Army had erred by not recognizing risk factors in AEY's history... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Despite 200 Million Guns, A Surprising Tranquility and Civility to American Life
BBC News / From Our Own Correspondent, Transcript
27 Apr 2008
MISSOURI -- Despite the fact there are more than 200 million guns in circulation, there is a certain tranquility and civility about American life. Deepwater, Missouri has a motto: "A great lil' town nestled in the heartland." Deepwater considers itself to be an exemplar of the best of American life. A place where outsiders -- if they ever penetrated this far -- would find home-cooked apple pie and friendly, warm, hard-working folk. Among those folk, I have no doubt, is Ronald Long. Last month Mr Long decided to install a satellite television system in his Deepwater home. His efforts to make a hole in the outside wall came to nothing... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Chicago Gun Control Groups Are Weak; Fewer, Lazier than Pro-gun Crowd?
Chicago Tribune, Column
27 Apr 2008
Monitoring the feisty and zesty comment boards at Change of Subject these last two weeks has reminded me of something I became aware of in the mid-1990s, when I wrote rather often on the subject of firearms policy: Gun-control advocates are weak. Whether they're badly outnumbered by gun-rights advocates, lazier than gun-rights advocates or simply don't have the statistical or philosophical ammunition to keep up with gun-rights advocates I'm not totally sure. But the undeniable truth is that, whenever this subject bobs to the surface of the news pond, as it has lately, those who favor tough new laws to restrict access to guns prove to be no match for... ( gunpolicy.org )
Canada, United States
Chicago Banned Handguns in 1981: City Saw 40 Shootings in Past Week
Toronto Star (Ontario)
27 Apr 2008
CHICAGO -- Deputy Police Chief Eugene Williams had a tough week. Wednesday morning, a two-storey house in his jurisdiction on the South Side. Five people, shot dead. The following afternoon, two more shootings. Another that night, non-fatal, shot in the leg and back. And all of this following a hail of gunfire that had peppered the city's toughest neighbourhoods just a few days before: In less than a week, more than 40 shootings, at least a dozen of them fatal. Williams, an affable 28-year veteran of the force, sat in his office in the blue-paneled bunker of the CPD's District 5 headquarters in South Chicago. As he managed his constantly pinging email and two... ( gunpolicy.org )
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