United States
North Dakota Gun Dealers Lost 40 Guns: Most Found in Wisconsin
Grand Forks Herald (North Dakota)
29 Apr 2008
A man accused of stealing more than 40 guns from two separate Grand Forks dealers pleaded guilty Monday to three counts in federal court in Fargo. Kelly Stenstrum admitted to stealing 34 guns from the Home of Economy store on North Washington Street and taking seven more firearms from Raymond Podell, a private gun dealer on south Columbia Road in rural Grand Forks. The thefts took place about two weeks apart in April 2007. Stenstrum, who moved to Grand Forks from Massachusetts in November 2006, pleaded guilty to two counts of theft and one count of knowingly transporting stolen firearms in interstate commerce, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Keith... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Philadelphia, State Capitol Should Find New Way to Tackle Gun Violence
Philadelphia Daily News (Pennsylvania), Editorial
29 Apr 2008
On April 10, Mayor Nutter signed five gun bills. They would limit gun purchases to one per month, make it crime to not report a lost or stolen gun within 48 hours, ban semi-automatic weapons with clips that hold more than 10 rounds, and allow police to take guns from people considered a danger to themselves and others. They are good measures on their face. But they are illegal, since the city doesn't have the right to make its own gun laws. So, in effect, the mayor signed them as a stunt, to bring attention to the constant conflict between the city's need to curb an out-of-control gun problem and state lawmakers' refusal to see the city and its problems... ( gunpolicy.org )
Senegal
Senegal Ratifies United Nations Convention to Curb Illicit Gun Trade
Afrique en ligne / Panapress
29 Apr 2008
DAKAR, Senegal --- Senegal has ratified the ECOWAS Convention on Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW), their ammunitions and other related materials. According to a communiqué of the Movement Against Small Arms in West Africa (MAL AO) obtained by PANA, Senegalese president Abdoulaye Wade, by passing the Act, had shown his country's commitment to fight the illegal circulation of small arms. Senegal thus becomes the fifth country to ratify the ECOWAS convention after Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso and Sierra Leone. However, MALAO argues that another battle has opened for civil society -- submission of the instruments by Senegal to the sub-regional body. ... ( gunpolicy.org )
Yemen
Shootout Injures Six as Authorities Try Seizing Guns from Yemeni Tribesmen
Deutsche Presse-Agentur
29 Apr 2008
SANAA -- Four military police officers and two civilians were injured in a clash between security forces and unidentified armed men in a southern Yemeni city Monday, police sources said. According to the sources, the gunbattle broke out after police forces tried to disarm the men armed with AK-47 rifles in a marketplace in Ja'ar in the southern province of Abyan. Police forces were acting as part of a campaign to enforce a ban on carrying weapons in main cities. One of the injured police officers was in critical condition and he was admitted to a hospital in the southern port city of Aden. The armed men, believed to be tribesmen, fled... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
US Gun Industry Can Learn from Scuba Divers: Certify Firearm Owners
Christian Science Monitor, Opinion
29 Apr 2008
DALLAS -- The Supreme Court will issue a major interpretation of the Second Amendment in coming weeks. But even as both sides in the gun debate await the D.C. v. Heller ruling, the gun industry should set its sights on a different target: certification. It should develop and adopt a private licensing and certification program fashioned on the highly successful scuba diving industry model to provide safety, legal, and marksmanship training to all gun owners and users. Such a private mandate will ensure a base of safer and more knowledgeable gun users and develop a fresh and lucrative revenue source for the whole industry. For decades, the debate on gun... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Virginia Man Converted, Sold Machine Guns to Undercover Officers - Police
WSLS-TV News (Virginia)
29 Apr 2008
Agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, & Firearms (ATF) as well as deputies from the Pittsylvania County sheriff's office arrested Jack Scott, 64, of Rockford School Road near Gretna, on charges of illegally selling firearms and making and selling machine guns. The investigation into Scott started last August, according to federal court records. Investigators are part of the VIPER task force, a special violent crimes investigations unit made up of local and federal authorities. Federal court records state Jack Scott is accused of selling three firearms he converted from semi-automatic to fully automatic machine guns. The records... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Virginia Panel Will Study Gun Show Loophole, But 'Don't Plan to Do Anything'
Washington Post
29 Apr 2008
The Virginia State Crime Commission has agreed to study private sales at gun shows, which are made without background checks. But members have already made clear that they don't plan to do anything about the issue. The 13-member panel said it will not make a recommendation for legislation to the General Assembly on the contentious issue after the commission meets to receive a draft of the report in September. Which prompts the question: Why do the study at all? "It's pathetic," said Andy Goddard, whose son, Colin, was shot four times in the Virginia Tech massacre last year and survived. "The fact that [commissioners] said from the beginning... ( gunpolicy.org )
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