United States
Hidden Guns Allowed at US Airports: Homeland Security Chief Surprised
Associated Press
22 July 2008
WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee says he might pursue new gun restrictions in response to a recently enacted Georgia law that could allow people to carry concealed firearms in parts of the Atlanta airport. Apparently surprised that some airports long have allowed guns in unsecured areas, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said the new Georgia legislation represents a significant hole in national security... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
In Open Carry Campaign, US Gun Lobbyists Wear Handguns to Idaho Zoo
Idaho Statesman (Boise)
20 July 2008
When you go to the zoo, you expect to see monkeys, ducks in a pond. You don't usually expect to see visitors with handguns. But you would have, had you visited Zoo Boise Saturday morning. About 10 members of the local chapter of OpenCarry.org, a national group that advocates for citizens' rights to openly carry handguns, met there. After a little confusion at the front desk about whether it's legal to bring an... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Having Toppled Washington Handgun Ban, Plaintiff Registers His Revolver
Washington Post
18 July 2008
Relishing a moment of triumph after a successful, long-running legal battle to end the District's handgun ban, Dick A. Heller strode into D.C. police headquarters yesterday with an unloaded revolver and began registering the weapon so he can keep it in his Capitol Hill home for self-defense. "It's a great day," declared Heller, 66, a hero to gun rights advocates nationwide for his role in District of Columbia v. Heller, the landmark... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
US Felons Now 'Have the Right' to Own Guns for Self Defence - Court Cases
Associated Press
18 July 2008
WASHINGTON -- Twice convicted of felonies, James Francis Barton Jr. faces charges of violating a federal law barring felons from owning guns after police found seven pistols, three shotguns, and five rifles at his home south of Pittsburgh. As a defense, Barton and several other defendants in federal gun cases argue that last month's Supreme Court ruling allows them to keep loaded handguns at home for self-defense. "Felons,... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Washington's New Handgun Law Imposes America's Most Restrictive Tests
Washington Post
18 July 2008
D.C. police have begun accepting applications from residents who want to register revolvers. Some basics: The Guns - As a rule, the city will accept registration applications only for revolvers, although relatively rare types of semiautomatic handguns are permitted. Most clip-loaded semiautomatic weapons remain banned. - Residents who illegally kept revolvers in their homes during the ban will be allowed to apply... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
US Supreme Court Decision Brings 'A New Chance to Curb Gun Violence'
Washington Post, Opinion
17 July 2008
The Supreme Court decision last month overturning the District's handgun ban, though controversial, may have ended a long-standing political logjam. As a local law enforcement official, I hope this decision will allow a working coalition to transcend partisan disagreements and support strategies proven to reduce gun violence. The ruling left almost entirely intact the gun restrictions in Maryland and most other jurisdictions. Still... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Washington Defiantly Sticks to Its Strict Gun Ban. Don't Like It? Sue Us
Washington Post, Column
17 July 2008
Mayor Adrian Fenty and his feisty attorney general, Peter Nickles, stood on the steps of the Wilson Building this week ostensibly to announce how the District will comply with the Supreme Court's rejection of Washington's ban on handguns. But really, they were delivering very much the opposite message: With only the narrowest of exceptions, we're sticking with our gun ban. Don't like it? Sue us. "I am pretty confident that the people... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Do Idahoans Believe the Answer to Deranged Gun Violence is More Guns?
Boise Weekly (Idaho)
16 July 2008
A few months after Jason Hamilton killed his wife and then took two military rifles from his ample collection and opened fire on the Latah County Courthouse, killing a cop, a church caretaker and then himself, Moscow Mayor Nancy Chaney floated the idea of a gun ban. It would have only applied to city property and it was not a direct reaction to the shooting, Chaney said. The city never actually passed anything, after the Idaho attorney... ( gunpolicy.org )
Pakistan
Gun Control: Pakistan Has 20 Million Firearms
Post (Lahore), Opinion
16 July 2008
LAHORE -- Pakistan, according to anti-arms campaigners, has one of the greatest per capita rates of gun ownership in the world. Though there are no official figures, rough estimates put the total number of small arms at large in the country at more than 20 million, with about half of them illegal. NWFP alone is believed to have nearly half a million illegal small arms and light weapons. How many more wake up calls do we need until... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
School Shooter Killed 6 in Illinois: Here's the Real Story [Part 1 of 3]
Esquire (USA)
16 July 2008
By the end, there is no night or day. No sleep. Just time, waiting. He sits on the end of his bed in a broken-down Travelodge. Smokes a Newport. Stale smell of old cigarettes, of all the lives that have passed through this room. Across his lap, a Remington 12-gauge shotgun, the barrel sawed off. His hands on it, one on the stock, one on the barrel. He can't sit still, though. Always fidgeting. Waiting. He's been in this... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
School Shooter Killed 6 in Illinois: Here's the Real Story [Part 2 of 3]
Esquire (USA)
16 July 2008
[Continued from Part 1] The following February, Thresholds, the agency that runs Mary Hill, decides to transition Steve out of the residential program into an SRO, a single-room occupancy. He has his own room now in a broke-down building, and they all share a bathroom. This is an even worse neighborhood. "His first night in the SRO was rough," says Jessica. "I remember him telling me about how he heard gunshots and someone was pounding... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
School Shooter Killed 6 in Illinois: Here's the Real Story [Part 3 of 3]
Esquire (USA)
16 July 2008
[Continued from Part 2] Halloween 2007. Steve stands in his bedroom dressed all in black, with white gloves. He takes the Jigsaw mask down from his bookcase, carefully holds it to his left side, face turned toward him, a puppet, a piece of himself, his alter ego. White face, red-target cheeks, the sadistic killer-narrator from Saw. He and Jessica aren't going anywhere tonight. She's busy with work, and there's no love after... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Washington DC Approves New Gun Laws Prompted by High Court Ruling
Associated Press
15 July 2008
WASHINGTON -- The District of Columbia Council approved new firearms legislation Tuesday that will allow residents to begin applying for handgun permits this week. The council's unanimous vote comes as officials try to comply with last month's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down the city's 32-year-old ban on handguns. The emergency legislation will allow handguns to be kept in the home if they are used only for self-defense... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Washington DC Imposes 'Strictest Controls Possible' in Revised Gun Law
Washington Post
15 July 2008
Within weeks, District residents could legally keep handguns in their homes under emergency legislation that goes to the D.C. Council today, as officials try to comply with the Supreme Court ruling rejecting the city's handgun ban. But District officials said yesterday that they are braced for the possibility of more legal wrangling as they try to respect the high court while maintaining the strictest controls possible. Residents... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Washington DC's Strict New Gun Regulations 'Reasonable and Necessary'
Washington Post, Editorial
15 July 2008
There was both a triumphal and defeatist cast to the news conference that D.C. officials held yesterday to unveil new firearms legislation. The agreement by the District's sometimes-fractured political leadership on a course of action was worthy of celebration. But it was hard to stomach the need to promulgate rules allowing ownership of handguns -- something the city had forbidden for decades until the Supreme Court's recent decision. Nonetheless,... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Guns Should Be Allowed in Busiest US Airport, Says Georgia Governor
Associated Press
14 July 2008
ATLANTA -- Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue said Monday that guns should be allowed in public areas of the nation's busiest airport. And he suggested his own wife might want to pack a firearm for long walks between the parking lot and the terminal at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International. "If my wife wanted to carry a gun, if she was going from the parking lot, walking from one of those far parking lots to pick up a grandchild... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
North Carolina's 'Ludicrous Gun Argument' Allows Mentally Ill to Stay Armed
Salisbury Post (North Carolina), Opinion
14 July 2008
RALEIGH -- It was among the more ludicrous arguments made on the Senate floor in a while. Sen. Doug Berger, a Franklin County Democrat, was speaking in favor of an amendment by the Senate's other Berger, minority leader Phil, that would water down a bill designed to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. Doug Berger's argument: What about someone who had just lost a spouse, who was now depressed, so depressed in... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
US Movement Lobbies for Students, Staff to Carry More Guns on Campus
Houston Chronicle (Texas) / AP
12 July 2008
BLANCO, Texas -- Cameron Schober, a 22-year-old Texas State University student, aimed his semi-automatic pistol at the outline of a man's torso just as a gust of wind blew down the target. "Everybody hold up!" hollered instructor Mike Cox. As six other shooters lowered their weapons, Schober scrambled to brace the cardboard target at a makeshift range on a deserted Hill Country ranch. Schober and fellow student Bill Downs... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
US Jewish Lobby Deplores High Court Decision, Strongly Backs Gun Control
Jewish Light (St Louis)
10 July 2008
Local Jewish organizations have stressed their continued support for gun control measures in light of the Supreme Court's decision in late June on the case District of Columbia v. Heller. In the 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court ruled in late June that the District of Columbia could not ban owning handguns for self-defense. Sydell Shayer, advocacy chair of the Jewish Community Relations Council of St. Louis, stressed that the... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
New Jersey Husband/Wife Shooting Brings Call for Handgun Sales Limit
Star-Ledger (New Jersey)
9 July 2008
Gun control advocates at a gathering in Montclair today used the recent fatal shooting of a mother at a local YMCA to urge lawmakers to pass legislation limiting the number of handguns sold to individuals. While law enforcement authorities have not said where Kenneth Duckett obtained a handgun they allege he used to kill his wife, Monica Paul, on June 26, the advocates argued that it had to have been obtained illegally. Duckett... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
California Bill Would Restrict, Licence the Sale of Handgun Ammunition
Mercury News (California), Editorial
8 July 2008
Guns don't kill people; bullets do. Mainly bullets from handguns, the source of 60 percent of murders in California. And yet the sale of handgun ammunition is unregulated in the state. Felons, gang members and others who are banned from possessing handguns can buy as many rounds of bullets as they want, no questions asked. And they apparently do, obtaining tens of thousands of rounds each year, according to a RAND Corporation study.... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
US Supreme Court Ruling Enshrines Most Gun Control as Legal Doctrine
Bangor Daily News (Maine), Opinion
5 July 2008
In the recent ruling District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court found that gun regulation is constitutional. While affirming the right of an individual to own a gun, the court ruled that "like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose." The decision went on to give examples of constitutional gun regulations... ( gunpolicy.org )
Canada, United States, Mexico
US Guns Fuel Both Mexican Drug Wars and Canadian Gang Violence
Canadian Press
4 July 2008
VANCOUVER -- Illicit guns that make their way across the U.S. border into Canada are a serious problem but a relative nuisance compared with the desperate battle being fought on the U.S.-Mexico border, say officials. More than 4,000 people -- including hundreds of police officers -- have died in the last 18 months as the Mexican government battles the country's powerful drug cartels. Border cities such as Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Mother Behind a Movement: Abby Spangler Leads US Gun Control Push
Washington Post
3 July 2008
Old Town Alexandria's Abby Spangler didn't set out to start a national movement for tighter gun controls. But she took note when two students shot their classmates at Columbine High School in Colorado. She watched moms keep their kids inside when the D.C. snipers terrorized the Washington region. Then five Amish girls were shot in their Pennsylvania schoolhouse. Finally, on the morning of April 16, 2007, when Seung Hui Cho opened... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
4 New Gun Laws Would Make Americans Safer, Still Fit High Court Ruling
Chicago Sun-Times, Editorial
2 July 2008
If Charlton Heston were alive, he'd be beaming. The man who filled the silver screen with chariot races and a parting of the sea played another prominent role in later years -- president of the National Rifle Association. Heston treasured his constitutional right to own a gun and was fond of intoning at NRA conventions, with his rifle held aloft, that his weapon would be taken only "from my cold dead hands." Now, thousands... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Gun Lobby Sues to Allow Guns at Atlanta Airport: Could Set US Precedent
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Georgia)
2 July 2008
Guns were the issue. But words and federal lawsuits became the weapons of choice Tuesday as Atlanta officials declared Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport a "gun-free zone," and gun advocates immediately retaliated by suing them. The fight over a new state law -- one that permits licensed gun owners to carry concealed weapons in more public places -- began at Atlanta's city-run airport, the world's busiest with 89 million passengers... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Gun Violence Spurred Two Wisconsin Mothers to Lead Local Campaigns
Capital Times (Wisconsin)
2 July 2008
Wanda Lavendel Bincer and Jeri Bonavia got caught up in criminal justice issues by way of their respective daughters, though the circumstances were quite different. Bincer, who died last Thursday, co-founded the local chapter of Parents of Murdered Children in the mid-1980s after her 25-year-old daughter, Yvonne, was murdered in 1983 in Atlanta. Bonavia founded the Milwaukee-based Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort in 1995... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
'At Last, Gun Rules We Can All Agree On,' Says Group of 300 US Mayors
Wall Street Journal, Opinion
30 June 2008
Finally. After decades of ideological debates over the meaning of every word and comma contained in the U.S. Constitution's one-sentence Second Amendment, the Supreme Court has issued a ruling that should largely settle the matter. In District of Columbia v. Heller, the court found that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to bear arms, while also affirming the constitutionality of reasonable restrictions aimed at... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
DC Ruling Highlights Failure of US Congress to Control Gun Trafficking
Sacramento Bee (California), Editorial
30 June 2008
A sharply divided Supreme Court has settled the issue for now. The Second Amendment to the Constitution does confer upon individuals the right to bear arms. In the wake of the ruling, big-city mayors across the country are expressing alarm that their gun-control ordinances will be set aside, unleashing a new wave of urban gun violence. That may be an exaggeration. Local gun ordinances have had limited impact. As crime statistics... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Gun Ruling Should Have No Effect on Connecticut's Gun Control Laws
Hartford Courant (Connecticut), Editorial
30 June 2008
Count us among those who believe the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution means what it plainly says. A common-sense reading of that famous single sentence -- "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed" -- construes it as creating a collective, not individual, right to possess firearms. But a 5-4 majority of the Supreme... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
New Law Sets Stage for Gun Showdown at World's Busiest Airport
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Georgia)
30 June 2008
You could call it the Atlanta version of "High Noon." Top city officials will announce Tuesday that despite a new state gun law that went into effect at midnight, they will have anyone carrying a weapon at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport arrested. The state lawmaker who sponsored the new gun law says if they do, the city will immediately be sued. And state Rep. Tim Bearden (R-Villa Rica) said the plaintiff in the lawsuit... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
NRA Plans to Spend $15m Opposing Barack Obama in US Election
Politico (Washington), Web Page
30 June 2008
The National Rifle Association plans to spend about $40 million on this year's presidential campaign, with $15 million of that devoted to portraying Barack Obama as a threat to the Second Amendment rights upheld last week by the Supreme Court. "Our members understand that if Barack Obama is elected president, and he has support in the Senate to confirm anti-gun Supreme Court nominees, [the District of Columbia v. Heller decision]... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States, World
Impact of Gun Control Laws is Tough to Determine: Some Say Few Work
New York Times
29 June 2008
Lurking behind the Supreme Court's ruling last week that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms were a series of fascinating, disputed and now in many ways irrelevant questions. Do gun control laws reduce crime? Do they save lives? Is it possible they even cost lives? Justice Stephen G. Breyer, one of the dissenters in the 5-to-4 decision, surveyed a quite substantial body of empirical research on... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Right to Own Guns in America 'Should Not Extend to Assault Weapons'
Richmond Times-Dispatch (Virginia)
28 June 2008
'Today I didn't even have to use my AK / I got to say it was a good day' -- Ice Cube No one would mistake the Flat Rock area of Powhatan County for South Central Los Angeles. Homicides are a shocking rarity in this slice of rural Virginia, much less those involving an assault rifle. But Powhatan Sheriff Gregory A. Neal said an AK-47 is what killed 18-year-old Tahliek Taliaferro. The AK-47 and its imitators have... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
80 Americans Die Every Day by Gunshot: 'This Ruling Won't Change That'
Boston Globe, Editorial
27 June 2008
The US Supreme Court has ended 69 years of speculation and ruled that the Second Amendment to the Constitution confers an individual right of Americans to own and use guns. To arrive at this decision, the court performed a grammatical parsing that would confound the best English teacher, deciding that the first 13 words are merely "prefatory" to the "operative clause" of the one-sentence amendment, thus conveniently tossing aside the importance... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Close US Gun Show Loophole, Tighten Background Checks - Obama
Sydney Morning Herald
27 June 2008
American mayors and legislators are closely studying today's Supreme Court ruling which clarifies the constitutional right of an individual to have a gun and may make many cities' gun control efforts invalid.. The 5-4 landmark ruling is the first time the Supreme Court has clarified what the second amendment means. The majority concluded that the "right to bear arms" extends to the individual, not just the rights of states to maintain... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
DC Prepares Licensing, Registration: 'Strictest Handgun Laws Allowed'
Washington Post
27 June 2008
Thirty-two years after enacting the nation's toughest restrictions on firearms ownership, the D.C. government suddenly faces a new reality, forced by the U.S. Supreme Court to draft regulations that will permit city residents to keep weapons, including handguns, readily available in their homes. "I am disappointed in the court's ruling and believe that more handguns in the District of Columbia will only lead to more handgun violence,"... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States, World
Gun Control in Most Countries More Stringent than in America
Washington Times
27 June 2008
Few countries go as far as the District of Columbia government did in effectively banning handgun ownership, but gun control abroad tends to be far stricter and more intrusive than in the United States. In Britain, it is a crime to manufacture or import even realistic-looking imitation guns, while in Canada, handguns must be registered and potential buyers must undergo training, a personal-risk assessment and a criminal background... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Gun Licensing, Registration, Background Checks OK - US High Court
USA Today, Editorial
27 June 2008
On hot-button cultural issues, the Supreme Court typically doesn't stray far from public opinion. So that's where the court found itself Thursday with its landmark Second Amendment ruling, right where the majority of Americans are on the issue: for gun ownership, but with limits. The court straddled that line. It said for the first time that the Constitution bars "the absolute prohibition of handguns held and used for self-defense... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
US High Court Decision Means 'Rethinking Local Gun Control Laws'
Daily American (Illinois) / Gatehouse News
27 June 2008
SPRINGFIELD, Illinois -- A U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning the District of Columbia's handgun ban won't have a direct, immediate effect on existing gun-control laws in Illinois, according to legal experts. But the high court's ruling could affect what happens here in the future when state and local officials grapple with restrictions on guns. "When you see the gnashing of teeth by the anti-gun types, there's a good... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
US Justice Fears 'Unknown Number of Dominoes' to Fall in Gun Control
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Georgia), Editorial
27 June 2008
Few sentences in the English language have been parsed more intently than "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court settled the argument over the definition of the Second Amendment, ruling that the right to bear arms extends beyond states to individual gun owners. Written by the Founding... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
US Republicans, NRA Vow to Make Gun Rights a Defining Election Issue
The Hill (Washington DC)
27 June 2008
Republicans believe Thursday's Supreme Court ruling striking down Washington D.C.'s handgun ban has revived gun rights as a campaign issue, benefiting the GOP up and down the November ticket. "The gun issue is not going away," said Tucker Bounds, a spokesman for Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), the Republican presidential candidate. "We are going to drive it. We are going to keep talking about this issue." Republicans will be... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Big Business Up In Arms Over Florida's 'Take Your Guns to Work' Law
News-Journal (Florida)
26 June 2008
TALLAHASSEE -- Wading into a battle about guns and property rights, a federal judge heard arguments Wednesday about the constitutionality of a new law that would force businesses to allow firearms in their parking lots. The Florida Chamber of Commerce and Florida Retail Federation are seeking an injunction against the law, which state lawmakers passed in April after lobbying by the National Rifle Association. The measure,... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
'Dangerous and Unusual' Guns Can Still Be Controlled in America
Economist
26 June 2008
After 217 years, the Supreme Court appears at last to have settled one of the most hotly disputed questions in American constitutional law: who has the right to pack heat? The second amendment says: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." The odd punctuation makes it unclear what this means. Can anyone own a gun, or only those who... ( gunpolicy.org )
Germany, Switzerland, Italy, United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa
Gun Laws in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, UK, Australia, South Africa
Associated Press
26 June 2008
GERMANY: Requires license to obtain and use firearms and stipulates a check on the "reliability and suitability" of holders at least once every three years. Under-25s must undergo psychological screening. Buyers must justify why they need a gun. Would-be buyers of recreational firearms must produce proof of regular membership in shooting club for at least one year. Legal age for owning recreational firearms is 21. That... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Illinois Lawmakers: DC Ruling Makes it Tougher to Pass Gun Restrictions
Chicago Tribune / Clout Street, Web Page
26 June 2008
State lawmakers said Thursday the Supreme Court opinion on gun control is likely to prompt a flurry of legislation in Springfield but at the same time will make it harder for any new gun restrictions to pass. Even before the decision, lawmakers struggled to find votes for bills aimed at reducing gun violence. Since 2004, when Congress allowed a 10-year federal ban on assault weapons to expire, lawmakers have been unable to muster... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
New Jersey's Tough Gun Laws 'Not Threatened' by High Court Ruling
Newsday (New York) / AP
26 June 2008
NEWARK, New Jersey -- The New Jersey attorney general and a gun control advocate said the state's tough firearms laws are not threatened by Thursday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down a handgun ban in the District of Columbia. "We believe the court affirmed the right of states to regulate gun ownership to protect public safety and endorsed commonsense licensing of firearms and concealed-weapons restrictions like we have... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Obama Joins Wide Range of Reaction to American Gun Law Decision
Bloomberg (USA)
26 June 2008
A divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled for the first time that the Constitution protects individual gun rights, striking down the District of Columbia's handgun ban and raising questions about weapons restrictions elsewhere. The 5-4 ruling resolves a constitutional question that had lurked for two centuries: whether the Second Amendment covers people who aren't affiliated with a state-run militia. "The enshrinement of constitutional... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Reported Gun Control Positions of US Presidential Candidates
Reuters
26 June 2008
The Supreme Court's ruling on Thursday that Americans have the right to own guns for personal use could become an issue in the U.S. presidential race. Here are the positions of the two candidates in November's election: DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE SEN. BARACK OBAMA Wants tighter background checks on gun buyers, making gun locks mandatory and holding parents criminally responsible for children who injure someone with a... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
US Gun Lobby Moves to Strike Weapon Bans in San Francisco, Chicago
Associated Press
26 June 2008
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Americans have a constitutional right to keep guns in their homes for self-defense, the justices' first major pronouncement on gun control in U.S. history. The court's 5-4 ruling struck down the District of Columbia's 32-year-old ban on handguns as incompatible with gun rights under the Second Amendment. The decision went further than even the Bush administration wanted, but probably... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
US Mayors Vow to Uphold Gun Controls Despite Supreme Court Ruling
Associated Press
26 June 2008
WASHINGTON -- Washington's blanket ban on handguns will fall and tight gun laws in places like Chicago and San Francisco are sure to come under attack. But most of the nation's firearms regulations will probably stay on the books, and some politicians said Thursday's Supreme Court decision won't hinder their efforts to prevent bloodshed. The high court struck down the District of Columbia's ban on handguns, ruling that Americans... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
US Right to Own Guns Remains Subject to 'Reasonable Limitations'
Dallas Morning News (Texas)
26 June 2008
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court tossed out a handgun ban in the nation's capital on Thursday, holding for the first time that the Second Amendment does protect an individual right to self-defense and gun ownership. But in its first hard look at gun rights in nearly 70 years, the court also held -- in a narrow, 5-4 ruling -- that the right is subject to some reasonable limitations. "Like most rights, the Second Amendment... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Georgia Gun Dealer Sued by New York City, Gave it Up and Fell in Love
Village Voice (New York)
24 June 2008
In 2006, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that he was filing suit against 27 out-of-state gun dealers. He called the gun sellers a "scourge on our society," and claimed that they were illegally selling weapons that kept ending up on the streets of New York. Most of the dealers Bloomberg sued quietly settled their cases, agreeing to allow the city to place monitors in their stores to oversee transactions. Others shut down their... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Moderate US Hunter-shooter Lobby Joins NRA in Opposing DC Gun Ban
New West (Montana)
24 June 2008
Even when you're the biggest and toughest of them all there's always somebody there to challenge you, as the National Rifle Association (NRA) has learned. The NRA's two-year-old nemesis, the American Hunters and Shooters Association (ASHA) just won't go away. "I'm here to tell you we're alive and well and plan to continue being a viable alternative to the NRA," announced AHSA President Ray Schoenke at a news conference at the annual... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
South Carolina Man Had 83 Illegal Guns, Pipe Bombs: Son Turned Him In
Seneca Daily Journal (South Carolina)
24 June 2008
WALHALLA -- The Oconee County Sheriff's Office filed charges Monday against a 64-year-old Westminster man in connection with a cache of weapons confiscated by local and federal authorities last week. Sheriff's investigators charged James E. Smith Sr. with possession of a sawed-off shotgun and unlawful possession of pistols. Although it is not a crime in South Carolina to store guns, Smith's case was different because he is a convicted... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Out-of-state No-shows Hold 1 in 3 of Utah's Hidden Handgun Permits
Salt Lake Tribune (Utah), Editorial
23 June 2008
There's a gunfight shaping up in the Utah Legislature. Gun advocates who want Utah to continue to arm the nation versus government bureaucrats and gun-control advocates who see the dangers in Utah's permissive concealed-carry permitting system. Utah permits are the Tootsie Pops of concealed-carry permits: easily obtained, inexpensive, long-lasting and unhealthy, for Utahns and the nation as a whole. More than a third of Utah's 100,000-plus... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
California Sheriff Reviews Hidden Handgun Permits Issued by Ex-Sheriff
Los Angeles Times
18 June 2008
Newly appointed Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens said Tuesday that she intends to review all the concealed-weapons permits that her indicted predecessor issued and revoke those of gun owners who can't prove a legal need to carry the weapons. When former Sheriff Michael S. Carona resigned in January to focus on his upcoming federal corruption trial, he had issued more than 1,100 active carry permits -- among the most issued... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Georgia Killers Should Not Have Had Guns to Shoot Their Partners
Ledger-Enquirer (Georgia), Column
18 June 2008
I received an informative e-mail from Alice Johnson regarding "Fights Turn Fatal." I wrote the column on June 12 about the shooting deaths of Ashley Bruce of LaGrange and Sarahonica Thrasher of Columbus. Police said Bruce was shot by her ex, and Thrasher by the father of her then-unborn child. Johnson was in Columbus Monday to appear on the panel for the 100 Black Men forum on HB 89 concerning concealed firearms. She is... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
US Supreme Court to Decide on DC Gun Ban - National Public Radio Q&A
National Public Radio (USA) / AP, Web Page
18 June 2008
In its first comprehensive look at the Second Amendment right to bear arms, the Supreme Court is expected to rule on the constitutionality of Washington, D.C.'s ban on handguns. The District of Columbia's ban is considered the nation's strictest gun-control law. A ruling by the court to strike it down could threaten other gun-control measures across the country, including laws that ban machine guns or assault weapons. Although... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States, Mexico
Almost All Guns in Mexico's Drug Wars Are From US Dealers, Gun Shows
Portfolio (USA), July Issue
16 June 2008
The U.S. has pledged more than $1 billion to help Mexico win its war on drugs. But even as the body count rises above 10,000, most of the guns that do the killing -- Colt .38 Supers and big-bore Barrett rifles among them -- keep pouring in from the U.S. Alfredo Beltrán Leyva was arrested on January 21 in Culiacán, capital of the Mexican state of Sinaloa. The circumstances of his arrest lived up to his high standing in Mexico's... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Gun Control Looms as Biggest Immediate Issue for US Supreme Court
Associated Press
15 June 2008
WASHINGTON -- One momentous case down, another equally historic decision to go. The Supreme Court returns to the bench Monday with 17 cases still unresolved, including its first-ever comprehensive look at the Second Amendment's right to bear arms. The guns case -- including Washington, D.C.'s ban on handguns -- is widely expected to be a victory for supporters of gun rights. Top officials of a national gun control organization said... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
More US Preschoolers Shot than Police Officers; US Leads in Gun Death
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Georgia), Editorial
15 June 2008
Who dies in greater numbers from firearms, police in the line of duty or preschoolers? The answer -- contained in a searing new report by the Children's Defense Fund -- is surprising and disturbing. In 2005, the most recent year for which data are available, guns killed 69 preschoolers, compared with 53 law enforcement officers. That's just one of the alarming facts in the Washington-based child advocacy group's "Protect... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
North Carolina Considers Banning Guns for 'Severely Mentally Ill' Owners
Stanly News & Press (North Carolina)
15 June 2008
Firearms may be banned from the hands of "severely mentally ill" individuals if legislation proposed Thursday by Attorney General Roy Cooper is approved. Cooper presented the bill, Senate Bill 2081, Thursday morning to N.C. Senate Judiciary I committee members. It directs clerks of court to enter information from involuntary commitments into a national database designed to prevent the severely mentally ill from acquiring... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Gun Control 'Removed from US Agenda:' NRA's Political Clout is Waning
Los Angeles Times
14 June 2008
WASHINGTON -- Eight years after a national debate over gun control helped keep Democrat Al Gore out of the White House, the National Rifle Assn. and its Republican allies are launching a new campaign to defeat Barack Obama. But this time, the issue that GOP strategists once relied on to provide crucial votes in close elections has lost much of its political punch. Congress hasn't passed major legislation to restrict gun... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Supreme Court Gun Ban Ruling Could Help Define US Presidential Race
Sydney Morning Herald
14 June 2008
NEW YORK -- One month after the Californian Supreme Court made gay marriage a potential presidential election issue by legalising same-sex unions, the US Supreme Court may be about to do the same for gun laws. Not since 1939 has the court considered the meaning of the contentious Second Amendment to the Constitution, which pro-gun activists claim confers on Americans the right to bear arms. Gun-control advocates, working... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
US Homicide, Suicide Best Checked by Local Background Check - Study
Newsweek (USA) / Health Matters
14 June 2008
There's nothing simple about gun control, a tangle of legal, political and public-health issues complicated by cultural preferences and regional biases. Passions run high on all sides. Lifelong hunters who grew up with firearms, urban victims of gun violence, Second Amendment scholars, NRA lobbyists, chiefs of police -- they've all got cases to make and they make them well, often contentiously. For the past 15 years, much of the... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
UN Gun Control Boss Braces for Loss in Supreme Court, New Strategies
ABC News (USA)
12 June 2008
The nation's leading gun control group filed a "friend of the court" brief back in January defending the gun ban in Washington, D.C. But with the Supreme Court poised to hand down a potentially landmark decision in the case, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence fully expects to lose. "We've lost the battle on what the Second Amendment means," campaign president Paul Helmke told ABC News. "Seventy-five percent of the public... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Submachine Gun, 60 Handguns, Rifles Taken from California Ex-convict
Pasadena Star-News (California)
11 June 2008
ALTADENA -- An ex-convict was in custody Wednesday after authorities served a search warrant at his home and discovered more than 60 guns -- from hunting rifles to a Tec-9 submachine gun. Donald Williams, 55, of Altadena was arrested Tuesday after detectives obtained a warrant to search his home on North Fair Oaks Avenue. Most of the firearms were rifles, but investigators also found handguns and shotguns. Williams... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
California Assembly Mandates Photo ID for Handgun Ammunition Sales
Record Searchlight (California) / Scripps News
9 June 2008
In the future, you may have to leave a copy of your driver's license if you want to buy .22-caliber rounds from your local big-box store. The California Assembly further reinforced the state's reputation as having the most stringent gun laws in the nation by passing two bills late last month that would put more restrictions on buying and selling handguns and handgun ammunition. Both bills must now win state Senate approval. ... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Milwaukee: One Wisconsin Gun Shop Sold 25% of Guns Seized in Crime
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Wisconsin)
8 June 2008
A study released last month showed that one out of every four guns seized by Milwaukee police during an arrest came out of Badger Guns, which formerly was known as Badger Outdoors, in West Milwaukee. No other dealer accounted for more than 3% of the sales of such guns, according to the study by Steven Brandl of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Brandl also found that guns from Badger ended up at crime scenes more quickly... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Murder, Suicide Rates Lower Where Local US Police Check Backgrounds
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Wisconsin)
8 June 2008
Gun suicide and homicide rates were about 25% lower when background checks on gun buyers were performed by local authorities as opposed to federal or state agencies, according to a study by the Medical College of Wisconsin. The study shows a patchwork of background check practices around the country. For example, in Wisconsin, checks are done on the state level, and across the border in Iowa and Minnesota, they are done locally.... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Mentally Ill US Man Built Assault Rifles off Net; Shot, Killed Police Officer
Tucson Citizen (Arizona) / AP
7 June 2008
A young man with a history of mental instability who is charged with murdering a police officer was not on any law enforcement list preventing him from acquiring weapons, a loophole that many states tried to close after the Virginia Tech shootings last year. Authorities believe David Nickolas Delich bought parts through the mail to build the three assault-style rifles he had in his possession during last weekend's shooting spree.... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Licensed Shooter Prompts Seattle to Clamp Down on Hidden Handguns
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Washington)
6 June 2008
Two weeks after a shooting at Seattle's Northwest Folklife Festival, Mayor Greg Nickels reportedly plans to announce restrictions Monday on concealed weapons on city property. Nickels' office declined to offer any details about the executive order. A news conference was scheduled at the Police Department with Nickels, Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske and state legislators. In a news release, the initiative was described as... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
New York Mayor's Campaign Against Illegal Guns Wins Notable Court Victory
New York Times, Editorial
6 June 2008
Mayor Michael Bloomberg's campaign against illegal guns won a notable victory this week when a Georgia gun dealer decided to default rather than go to trial in a civil lawsuit that accused him of illegally selling handguns that were later used to commit crimes in New York. The last-minute retreat by the dealer, Jay Wallace, is new vindication of Mr. Bloomberg's strategy for holding irresponsible gun dealers accountable. It is part... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Mental Health Clearance Required for Hidden Handgun in Massachusetts
Boston Globe, Opinion
5 June 2008
I'm convinced there are greater societal problems in need of attention than the plight of the inconvenienced gun enthusiast, highlighted on the front page of the May 29 Globe West and other regional editions ("Under the Gun"). Imagine having to submit three letters of recommendation in order to get a permit to carry a concealed weapon, or a letter from your physician stating that you aren't mentally ill. How unreasonable! Police... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Judge Strikes Down Some Philadelphia City Gun Laws, Lets Others Stand
Philadelphia Inquirer (Pennsylvania)
3 June 2008
A Philadelphia judge today sided with the National Rifle Association and struck down city ordinances banning assault weapons and limiting handgun purchases to one a month. In a blow to the city's attempt to write its own gun laws, Common Pleas Court Judge Jane Cutler-Greenspan ruled that Philadelphia should be permanently prevented from enforcing the laws that the City Council passed unanimously in April. But Greenspan... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Obama, McCain on Gun Control, Gun Shows and Banning Assault Weapons
Associated Press
3 June 2008
WASHINGTON -- A look at where Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain stand on a selection of issues as they go head-to-head for the presidency: ... GUN CONTROL McCain: Voted against ban on assault-type weapons but in favor of requiring background checks at gun shows. Voted to shield gun-makers and dealers from civil suits. "I believe the Second Amendment ought to be preserved -- which means no gun control."... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Philadelphia Judge Blocks Assault Weapon Ban, 'One Gun a Month' Limit
Reuters
3 June 2008
PHILADELPHIA -- A Philadelphia judge struck down city ordinances banning assault weapons and limiting handgun purchases on Tuesday, in a blow to the city's attempts to make gun laws separately from the state. Pennsylvania state lawmakers, influenced by a strong rural gun lobby, have repeatedly rejected gun-control proposals from Philadelphia, one of the most violent cities in the United States. Judge Jane Cutler Greenspan... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Georgia Gun Dealer Drops Out at Trial: 'Important Victory for New Yorkers'
Associated Press
2 June 2008
NEW YORK -- A Georgia gun dealer accused in a federal lawsuit of selling weapons that ended up in the hands of New York City criminals has opted not to go to trial this week. A lawyer for Jay Wallace, the owner of Adventure Sports Inc. in Smyrna, Ga., said in court papers Monday that his client decided that a trial would be a waste of time and money. He also claimed that pretrial rulings against the defendant showed he couldn't... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Hidden Handgun Licensing Requirements Vary Widely in US Eastern States
Boston Globe
1 June 2008
There was his birth certificate, driver's license, and the utility bill he handed over to prove who he was and where he lived, he says. Plus the letter verifying his membership in a gun club, and the copy of his safety certificate, and that passing grade on his marksmanship test. Not to mention being photographed, and fingerprinted for the background check. By the time he was finished with the process of applying for a license to... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States, United Nations
McCain on Gun Control, Gun Shows, Assault Weapons, the UN and the NRA
America's 1st Freedom / National Rifle Association of America
1 June 2008
To say that the 2008 elections will be crucial for the future of the Second Amendment would be an understatement. Future efforts to preserve our gun rights and our hunting heritage hinge on who will take the helm at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue next January. NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre and NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris W. Cox recently sat down with presumptive Republican nominee Senator John McCain. They asked him some direct... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Hillary Clinton No Longer Favours Handgun Registration, Owner Licensing
Billings Gazette (Montana)
31 May 2008
HELENA -- Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton told Montana reporters Friday that she no longer favors national handgun registration and licensing, even as she supports such measures in her adopted state of New York. "What I came out for was the New York law," the U.S. senator said in a noon conference call Friday. "I don't think there is any contradiction between defending Second Amendment rights and trying to... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Licensed US Gun Dealer Admits Forging Papers, Selling Handguns to Felon
South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale)
31 May 2008
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida -- A Pembroke Park gun dealer who sold dozens of weapons to a convicted felon and forged paperwork to cover his tracks pleaded guilty Friday to federal weapons charges. Victor Needleman, owner of American Range and Gun, changed his plea in the face of overwhelming evidence, including audiotapes, sales records and statements by one of his customers and some employees, his attorney said. Sentencing is set... ( gunpolicy.org )
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Bosnian Gunman Killed 6 Family Members, Had History of Post-war Trauma
Agence France Presse
29 May 2008
TUZLA, Bosnia-Hercegovina -- A gunman shot dead six of his relatives and wounded another man in a rampage in a Bosnian town on Thursday before being detained as he fired on a parked car, police said. The 45-year-old man shot dead three neighbours in Tuzla before moving on to a bus station where he killed three passengers and wounded a bus driver, police spokesman Izudin Saric told AFP. The gunman, who was identified as... ( gunpolicy.org )
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Gun Enthusiast, Loner Shoots Dead Six Relatives in Bosnian Village, on Bus
Reuters
29 May 2008
TRSTJE, Bosnia -- A Bosnian Croat man shot and killed six of his relatives in a village near the northern Bosnian town of Tuzla on Thursday, gunning down three in their homes and three aboard a bus, police said. Local people identified the man as 45-year-old Tomislav Petrovic and said all the victims were related to him and lived in the neighborhood. "The man has been arrested and an investigation is under way," said Tuzla... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
New York Governor Wants Law to Keep Guns Away from the Mentally Ill
Albany Times-Union (New York), Editorial
29 May 2008
New York's legislators have an opportunity to keep handguns out of the hands of the mentally unstable. They not only should seize the chance, they have a responsibility to do so. If not, they should be held accountable by voters in November. After the horrifying massacre at Virginia Tech last year, federal and state authorities began to revise gun laws to prevent a similar tragedy from happening in the future. But there is still... ( gunpolicy.org )
Canada
Canada's 'Shameless Pandering to Gun Lobby' Puts Public at Risk
Windsor Star (Ontario), Opinion
28 May 2008
As Monday's Windsor Star editorial noted (Long guns: An amnesty of convenience), the Harper government recently extended its amnesty for long gun owners who haven't obtained or renewed licences and haven't registered their guns. So those who thumb their noses at the law have been given a free pass for another year. It's hard to know which is more offensive: the government's shameless pandering to the gun lobby at the expense of public safety,... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Colorado Felon Won't Get His 150 Guns, 30,000 Rounds of Ammo Back
Grand Junction Free Press (Colorado)
28 May 2008
GRAND JUNCTION -- A judge has denied a Fruitvale man's bid to force the return of more than 150 guns seized by authorities last fall. Chief District Judge David Bottger also refused to slap a contempt citation on SWAT officers with the Mesa County Sheriff's Office, saying a search warrant did not prohibit local authorities from handing over the weapons -- plus some 30,000 rounds of ammunition -- to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Georgia Gun Dealer Takes On New York City, 321 Big City Mayors in Court
Reuters
27 May 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's crusade against illegal guns entered the courtroom on Tuesday in a battle against a Georgia gun dealer. It is the first of two civil cases New York has brought against 27 gun dealers in five states -- Georgia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Virginia -- on the grounds that their sales practices allowed criminals to buy guns and then bring them into the city. ... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Seattle: Licensed Owner of Hidden Handgun Had Mental History, Shot 3
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Washington)
27 May 2008
A Snohomish man arrested after three people were shot last weekend at the Northwest Folklife Festival had a valid concealed weapon permit despite a history of mental health problems, police in Seattle and Snohomish County confirmed Tuesday. A disclosure during a Monday bail hearing that Clinton C. Grainger, 22, suffers from several mental health problems prompted questions about whether he should have been eligible to carry a concealed... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
UK Student Arrested in Vermont Tried to Buy a Gun with Fake ID 'For a Dare'
Guardian (UK)
27 May 2008
A 22-year-old British student has been arrested in the US for allegedly using fake ID to buy a gun for a dare. Stephen Jackley was arrested after he fled from the Vermont gun shop when the owner became suspicious and called the police. He is currently in custody awaiting a court appearance over firearms and driving offences. British officials are looking at extraditing the student to England after a "suspicious... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
'Rogue' Georgia Gun Dealer Holds Firm Against New York City Law Suit
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Georgia)
25 May 2008
A pair of binoculars is always on the ledge of a window that offers a view from Jay Wallace's office to the sales floor of Adventure Outdoors in Smyrna. He uses them to keep an eye on both customers and employees. "I'm proud of how I run my business," Wallace said. But on Tuesday he'll be in a New York courtroom, defending Adventure Outdoors against accusations that it is a "rogue" gun dealership that paid scant attention... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States, Mexico
US Gun Shows, Dealers Fuel Gun Running to Mexican Drug War [Part 1 of 2]
Laredo Morning Times (Texas)
25 May 2008
Federal agents working along the Texas-Mexico border have noticed drug cartels have a new affinity for a particular type of firearm. "It's a 5.7 (mm)," said Elias Bazan, the resident agent in charge of the Laredo field office of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. "In Mexico, they already call it the 'cop killer.' It's a very powerful little handgun. Here recently, that has been more a weapon of choice."... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
US Gun Control Push Should Enlist Gun Owners in Cause of Rational Laws
Daily Herald (Chicago), Editorial
24 May 2008
Many people support "common-sense" gun laws. So the argument goes. An example of such laws are those that require background checks on potential gun buyers. Who wouldn't want to make sure that people with criminal histories, those who have committed domestic violence and those with destabilizing mental illnesses are kept from purchasing guns through a screening process? Indeed, there is strong public support for such laws,... ( gunpolicy.org )
Mexico, United States
US Guns, Demand Fuel Mexican Drug Wars: Casualty Rate Higher Than Iraq
Denver Post (Colorado), Opinion
23 May 2008
Only lightly noted on this side of the border, our neighbor Mexico is engulfed in bloody, violent combat with and between death-dealing drug cartels. In a stunning reversal for President Felipe Calderon's crusade to subdue the drug trade and its perpetrators, Edgar Gomez, the national police chief and lead anti-cartel crusader, was assassinated this month outside his Mexico City home. "This could have a snowball effect, even leading... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Court Hears Georgia Gun Dealer Sold 72 Crime Weapons Found in New York
New York Law Journal / Law.com
22 May 2008
New York City's public nuisance action against a Georgia sporting goods shop, one of the three remaining defendants in the city's effort to hold 27 out-of-state dealers responsible for the use in New York crimes of guns they sold, will go forward following a Brooklyn federal judge's denial of the shop's motion for summary judgment. In a written decision Wednesday, Eastern District of New York Judge Jack B. Weinstein found that the... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Georgia Gun Dealer 'David' Faces Up to New York Mayor 'Goliath' in Court
New York Times
22 May 2008
When Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg stood at City Hall two years ago to announce that he had just filed suit against several gun shop owners, mainly in the South, it was in a certain fashion the capstone of a signature campaign. Mr. Bloomberg had already bashed the industry in several angry speeches, gone to Washington to pressure congressmen and lobbyists, and made his war against illegal guns a personal crusade. Now, however, Mr.... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Judge Won't Allow New York Mayor to Testify Against Georgia Gun Dealer
New York Times
22 May 2008
Saying that he did not want "a media show," a federal judge ruled on Thursday that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg cannot testify at the pending civil trial of a Georgia gun dealer accused of creating a public nuisance in New York by selling weapons that were later used to commit crimes in the city. City officials said on Wednesday that Mr. Bloomberg was almost certain to take the stand next month in Federal District Court in Brooklyn... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Relaxed Gun Controls, Unlicensed Sales Help Fuel California Gun Violence
Oakland Tribune (California)
22 May 2008
OAKLAND -- Seventeen-year-old Dominique Nubie stood on a West Oakland street corner talking about what matters in his life. "Guns "... everybody here has guns," he said, motioning around. Instead of the usual high school concerns about finishing homework or making the basketball team, Dominique worries most about survival in a neighborhood where many of his peers own guns. Oakland is teeming with guns. They're... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
US Gun Control Campaign Aims to Split McCain and the 'Suffering' NRA
Washington Times, Blog
22 May 2008
The Brady Campaign, the group that campaigns for stricter gun control laws, is hoping to rain on Sen. John McCain's overtures to the National Rifle Association, arguing the two are an unlikely fit for each other. Brady President Paul Helmke, in a new blog, says the NRA must be suffering since the candidate it's stuck with having to support, McCain, has earned only a "C+" grade from the NRA. Helmke reminds his readers exactly... ( gunpolicy.org )
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