A 33-year-old U.S. citizen living in Toronto has been sentenced to 32 years in prison after a Monroe County traffic stop turned up guns-for-drugs smuggling ring that ran through Detroit. Rick Tolliver, formerly of Cincinnati, admitted he smuggled more than 500 guns into Canada from December 2004 until his arrest in 2006, federal authorities announced Friday. Tolliver's formal first name was spelled Riccardo in court documents and Ricardo in a press release handed out... (GunPolicy.org)

RAIGANJ — An arms selling racket is active in North Dinajpur, thanks to political parties which want to be well-equipped before the elections and are acquiring weapons through criminals who are on their payroll. Promises made and at the end of a lot of coaxing, a linkman of the arms dealers agreed to reveal to The Telegraph how the network functioned. What followed was a journey on Tuesday morning to an undisclosed location. It started with a ride to a nondescript... (GunPolicy.org)

MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee's police chief said he'll go on telling his officers to take down anyone with a firearm despite Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen's finding that people can carry guns openly if they do it peacefully. Chief Ed Flynn said officers can't assume people are carrying guns legally in a city that has seen nearly 200 homicides in the past two years. He said that means officers seeing anybody carrying a gun will put them on the ground, take the gun away... (GunPolicy.org)

It's been less than a year since the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark Heller decision affirming the principle that the 2nd Amendment does indeed protect an individual right to keep and bear arms, and that the right it thus protects is a fundamental right. The High Court last June clearly established: (1) that we — the people — possess an individual right to own firearms; (2) that this fundamental right pre-dated the Constitution (in other words, the 2nd... (GunPolicy.org)