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<title>Opinion: US Gun Lobby Rhetoric, Not Money, Blocking Gun Control</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/37337</link>
<author>Guardian (UK), Opinion,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Of all the senators who attempted Wednesday to rally support for the doomed Manchin-Toomey background check amendment, Connecticut's Democratic freshman representative, Chris Murphy, probably faced the greatest temptation to borrow the moral authority of the Newtown families. They are his constituents and many were present in the chamber.

He's young – the youngest sitting senator, actually – and an early Obama supporter, given to occasional bouts of... [Guardian (UK), Opinion, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Expert Says Explaining Benefits of Arms Treaty will Boost US Support</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/37313</link>
<author>New York Times, Opinion,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[On April 2, the United States joined an overwhelming majority of countries at the United Nations in voting to adopt a treaty regulating the international trade in conventional weapons — a monumental achievement after seven years of diplomacy, lobbying and out-and-out arm-twisting.

The United States pushed for the General Assembly vote last week after securing, in a March conference, the treaty language its negotiators wanted.

Yet now, just days after the United... [New York Times, Opinion, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Gun Running into Mexico on the Rise as US Admits Lack of Data on Guns</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/37283</link>
<author>San Marco Mercury,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +1100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As the gun control debate swirls around issues like background checks and mental health, a new study reveals that gun running into Mexico remains a large-scale problem.

In their report, titled "The Way of the Gun," researchers at the University of San Diego's Trans-Border Institute estimated that as many as 253,000 firearms were purchased in the United States from 2010 to 2012 for the sole purpose of being trafficked across the border into Mexico. The figure is nearly... [San Marco Mercury, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Armed Violence Kills 66,000 Women and Girls Each Year</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/37202</link>
<author>New Zealand Herald, Associated Press,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +1100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon has urged the world's nations to agree on a strong UN treaty to regulate the multibillion-dollar global arms trade in the next two weeks, saying it will save lives and make it more difficult for warlords, organised criminals and terrorists to obtain weapons.

Hopes of reaching agreement on what would be a landmark treaty were dashed last July when the United States said it needed more time to consider the proposed accord - a... [New Zealand Herald, Associated Press, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>More Than 250,000 Guns a Year Illegally Smuggled into Mexico - Study</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/37201</link>
<author>Fox News Latino,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +1100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Fast and Furious gun-running scandal that continues to haunt the U.S. Department of Justice highlighted a frightening fact: Illegal firearms are flowing into Mexico from the U.S. at an alarming rate.

More than two percent of all firearms bought in the United States -- about 253,000 -- end up south of the border, up from 1.75 percent in 1990, according to a binational report by the Trans-Border Institute in San Diego and the Igarape Institute, a research center in... [Fox News Latino, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>UN Revives Effort on Pact to Regulate Arms Trade</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/37194</link>
<author>New York Times,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +1100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In the shadow of the re-energized gun-control debate in the United States, negotiators at the United Nations will reconvene this week to try to reach a final agreement on a treaty to regulate the global trade in conventional weapons, a lucrative business that rights groups call the main source of illicit arms fueling deadly conflicts around the world.

"I am confident that member states will overcome their differences and muster the political will needed to agree on... [New York Times, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>US Gun Lobby Stepping Up Its Opposition to UN Arms Trade Treaty</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/37193</link>
<author>Guardian (UK),  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +1100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The National Rifle Association is stepping up its opposition to a UN treaty aimed at halting the illicit trade of guns into conflict zones, after months of silence on the issue believed to be due to its focus on domestic gun control.

Human rights campaigners said that the resurgence of the NRA's campaign was designed to "stir up anti-UN panic" ahead of the UN conference on the Arms Trade Treaty, which opens on Monday in New York. The Obama administration indicated in a... [Guardian (UK), via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>NRA Opposes UN Arms Trade Treaty</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/37191</link>
<author>Washington Post,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +1100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The National Rifle Association, which is battling a raft of gun control measures on Capitol Hill, also has an international fight on its hand as it gears up to oppose a U.N. treaty designed to restrict the flow of arms to conflict zones.

Negotiations open Monday in New York on the Arms Trade Treaty, which would require countries to determine whether weapons they sell would be used to commit serious human rights violations, terrorism or transnational organized... [Washington Post, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>US Gun Lobby&#39;s Silence on UN Arms Treaty Surprises Gun Control Campaigners</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/37164</link>
<author>Guardian (UK),  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +1100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The National Rifle Association is so tied up fighting new gun restrictions in the wake of the Newtown shooting that it has failed so far to mount its expected lobbying blitz against a new international arms control control treaty.

With just a few weeks to go until the world's first Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) is put to a final vote at a UN conference in New York campaigners have voiced surprise at the NRA's relative silence on the issue. Until the Newtown tragedy, in which... [Guardian (UK), via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>How Strict Are South African Gun Laws?</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/37101</link>
<author>Time (USA),  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +1100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The paralympian Oscar Pistorius has been charged with murder by a South African court following the death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, from gunshot wounds at his home within a gated Pretoria housing estate. The woman sustained wounds to her head and the upper body, and was reported to have been shot four times. A 9mm pistol was recovered from the scene.

According to Gunpolicy.org, there are just under 6 million licensed firearms in South Africa, which has a... [Time (USA), via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Israel Has Fewer Guns, Fewer Deaths Than US</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/37050</link>
<author>Forward, the Jewish Daily,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +1100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Nine days after the Newtown, Conn. massacre in which 20 children died, Wayne LaPierre, the National Rifle Association's executive vice president, broke his group's long silence with a bristling attack against gun regulation that included a theme heard frequently among gun rights advocates.

"Israel had a whole lot of school shootings until they did one thing," LaPierre said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "They said, 'We're going to stop it,' and they put... [Forward, the Jewish Daily, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>How the Gun-Control Movement in America Got Smart</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/37039</link>
<author>Atlantic (USA),  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +1100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Here is how advocates of gun control used to talk about their cause: They openly disputed that the Second Amendment conferred the right to own a gun. Their major policy goals were to make handguns illegal and enroll all U.S. gun owners in a federal database. The group now known as the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence was once known as Handgun Control Inc.; a 2001 book by the executive director of the Violence Policy Center was entitled Every Handgun Is Aimed at... [Atlantic (USA), via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>How Video Games Fund Arms Manufacturers and Sell Guns</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/37023</link>
<author>EuroGamer,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +1100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The American confectionery company Victoria Sweets claims to have invented the candy cigarette. A thin stick of chocolate, wrapped in edible paper and designed to impersonate a roll-up, it debuted in 1915 and soon became the accessory of choice for children keen to play grown-up. Hollywood star, GI Joe, team captain: the sweet gave kids the chance try out one of the vogue props of adulthood.

Within 20 years it was so popular that cigarette companies began to take... [EuroGamer, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>US Author Attacks &#39;Propaganda-Savvy Gun-Pimps&#39;, Gun Culture</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/36987</link>
<author>Guardian (UK),  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +1100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Stephen King has entranced millions with tales of dread but his latest volume will read like a horror only to the National Rifle Association and other gun-rights advocates. The best-selling author made an unexpected charge into the national debate on gun violence on Friday with a passionate, angry essay pleading for reform.

King, who owns three handguns, aimed the expletive-peppered polemic at fellow gun-owners, calling on them to support a ban on automatic and... [Guardian (UK), via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Mexico&#39;s Gun Problems Go Beyond Drug Wars</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/36928</link>
<author>Inter Press Service News Agency,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +1100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[MEXICO CITY - A lot of attention goes to the U.S.-made weapons in the hands of criminal groups in this Latin American country. But there is little talk of another problem: the large number of light weapons in the hands of civilians.

The Mexican Constitution establishes the people's right to "own guns in their homes for their safety and self-defence", with the exception of high caliber weapons, while the 1972 Federal Law on Firearms and Explosives stipulates the... [Inter Press Service News Agency, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Experts Suggest US Can Learn From Australia&#39;s Post-Port Arthur Laws</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/36929</link>
<author>Sky News (UK),  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +1100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When Martin Bryant massacred 35 people with semi-automatic weapons at a tourist spot in Tasmania in 1996, then-Australian prime minister John Howard reacted swiftly by pushing for tough new national gun laws.

Just 12 days after the shootings at Port Arthur, legislation was agreed which banned most people from owning rapid fire rifles and shotguns.

In a government buyback scheme more than 600,000 weapons were handed in and destroyed.

There have been no mass killings... [Sky News (UK), via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>US Gun Lobby Accused of Lying to Public About UN Arms Trade Treaty</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/36874</link>
<author>Reuters,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +1100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The leading U.S. pro-gun group, the National Rifle Association, has vowed to fight a draft international treaty to regulate the $70 billion global arms trade and dismissed suggestions that a recent U.S. school shooting bolstered the case for such a pact.

The U.N. General Assembly voted on Monday to restart negotiations in mid-March on the first international treaty to regulate conventional arms trade after a drafting conference in July collapsed because the U.S. and... [Reuters, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Israel Evidence Shows Gun Restrictions Work, Disproves US Lobby Claims</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/36867</link>
<author>Washington Post / Associated Press,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +1100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[JERUSALEM — Israel's policy on issuing guns is restrictive, and armed guards at its schools are meant to stop terrorists, not crazed or disgruntled gunmen, experts said Monday, rejecting claims by America's top gun lobby that Israel serves as proof for its philosophy that the U.S. needs more weapons, not fewer.

Far from the image of a heavily armed population where ordinary people have their own arsenals to repel attackers, Israel allows its people to acquire... [Washington Post / Associated Press, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>How US, Middle East Gun Laws Measure Up</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/36840</link>
<author>Al Arabiya (Dubai),  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +1100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The fatal Dec. 14 shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut which claimed the lives of 28 people, including 20 innocent children under 10 once again brought to light the dilemma of gun ownership in the United States and despite the fact that it received no response from the gun rights advocates but a deafening silence, laid emphasis on the necessity for the United States to revise its gun policies. 

The shooting rampage, in which a mentally... [Al Arabiya (Dubai), via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Around the World, Gun Massacres Spurred Gun Control, Public Safety</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/36854</link>
<author>ABC News (USA) / AP,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +1100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If there's anywhere that understands the pain of Newtown, it's Dunblane, the town whose grief became a catalyst for changes to Britain's gun laws.

In March 1996, a 43-year-old man named Thomas Hamilton walked into a primary school in this central Scotland town of 8,000 people and shot to death 16 kindergarten-age children and their teacher with four legally held handguns. In the weeks that followed, people in the town formed the Snowdrop campaign — named for the... [ABC News (USA) / AP, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Top 12 Countries for Firearms Related Deaths</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/36832</link>
<author>Forbes (USA),  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +1100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Few major nations have the right to bear arms configured in their Constitution. Even fewer (as in we are the only one) have gun control legislation as a hot button political issue.  The U.S. is the most violent core economy in terms of gun related deaths. It is also the leader in gun violence at school campuses. Yet, the U.S. does not lead the world in firearms related deaths.  Countries were gangs and drugs are a problem top the list, even where there is strict gun... [Forbes (USA), via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Appeals Court Upholds New York Hidden Handgun Licensing Law</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/36777</link>
<author>Reuters,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +1100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The state of New York can continue to require residents who want to carry a concealed handgun in public to obtain a special license, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York rejected a challenge brought by several Westchester residents and the Second Amendment Foundation against the state's handgun licensing scheme.

Like numerous other states, New York imposes restrictions on individuals who wish to carry concealed... [Reuters, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>America&#39;s Gun Industry Thrives Under Obama, Gun Lobby Remains Alert</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/36662</link>
<author>Newser (USA) / Associated Press,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +1100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama has presided over a heyday for the gun industry despite predictions by the National Rifle Association four years ago that he would be the "most anti-gun president in American history." The president hasn't pressed such an agenda, but gun owners still are afraid that, if re-elected, an Obama who wouldn't have to face voters again would try to restrict firearms purchases.

An analysis by The Associated Press of data tracking the health of the gun... [Newser (USA) / Associated Press, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Switzerland to Block Gun Access to Some Army Recruits After Deaths</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/36622</link>
<author>Reuters,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Swiss government said on Wednesday it wants civil and military authorities to share information to try to cut gun crimes by violent recruits with access to army-issued weapons.

Control over the issue of military weapons is a growing area of concern in Switzerland, where everyone who undergoes military training has access to a firearm.

Public prosecutors and judges will alert the relevant military authorities if they believe recruits with criminal charges against... [Reuters, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>US Needs to Get Rid of Its Guns - John Howard, Former Australian PM</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/36414</link>
<author>Sydney Morning Herald, Opinion,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Early in 2008 Janette and I were guests of the former president, George H. W. Bush or "41", as he is affectionately known, at his Presidential Library in College Station, Texas. I spoke to a warm and friendly audience of more than 300 who enthusiastically reacted until, in answer to a request to nominate the proudest actions of the Australian government I had led for almost 12 years, I included the national gun control laws enacted after the Port Arthur massacre in... [Sydney Morning Herald, Opinion, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Call for &#39;Gunless Society&#39;, Tougher Penalties in Philippines</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/36418</link>
<author>Philippine Star, Opinion,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Colorado Movie Theater shooting tragedy where 12 people were killed and 58 were injured during a sold-out midnight premier of the new Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises" brought chills to many around the world. Imagine a 24-year-old man named James Holmes unloaded four weapons' full of ammunition into the unsuspecting crowd without any fear whatsoever. And here we are in our neck of the woods selling ammunition like hotcakes to any Tom, Dick or Harry.

Many... [Philippine Star, Opinion, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Guns in America - The Business of Fear: Bernd Debusmann</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/36411</link>
<author>Reuters, Opinion,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Mass shootings are good for the gun business. So are dark warnings from the principal gun lobby in the United States, the National Rifle Association (NRA), that President Barack Obama is leading a global conspiracy to seize an estimated 300 million guns now held by private citizens.

Whether this is true or not doesn't matter. As they say on Wall Street, perception is reality and the fears the NRA has managed to inspire since Obama's 2008 election have led to a boom for... [Reuters, Opinion, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Gun Advocates Use Unreliable Data to Claim a Need for Weapons</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/36410</link>
<author>CNN, Opinion,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - Do guns make us safer?

It's an article of faith among many gun owners that yes they do.

Last week, I presented in this space some evidence of the dangers of gun ownership: the elevated risks of accident and suicide in households that own guns. I pointed to a paradox: More Americans support gun rights, even as fewer Americans own guns. I explained this paradox with data that suggested many Americans hold false ideas about the prevalence of crime - and... [CNN, Opinion, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Dan Morain: American Gun Lobby Blocks Violence Studies</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/36445</link>
<author>Sacramento Bee (California),  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There was nothing unusual about the University of Colorado's grant to its once-promising student, James E. Holmes.

If Holmes weren't accused of killing a dozen people and wounding 58, we'd never know that he received $21,600 for living costs while he pursued his doctorate in neuroscience. Nor was there anything odd about how the university paid for the stipend. The money came from an annual grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health.

But if the National... [Sacramento Bee (California), via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>US Gun Lobby Wins One, Beats Back UN Treaty to Slow World Gun Trade</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/36409</link>
<author>San Francisco Chronicle,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When a global treaty to limit shady weapons sales gets swept up in the gun-control debate, it's clear that this country has a problem. A bloc of U.S. senators, chiefly Republicans with a sprinkling of Democrats, has managed to derail a U.N. treaty to restrict weapons sales between countries.

The reasoning is spurious and shameful, a political play on distrust of the United Nations and unfounded fears about a loss of domestic gun rights. But the threat was enough to... [San Francisco Chronicle, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Fact Check: Arms Trade Treaty Unlikely to Curb US Gun Rights - AP</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/36400</link>
<author>Associated Press,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Negotiators at the United Nations are working to put final touches on a treaty cracking down on the global, $60 billion business of illicit trading in small arms, a move aimed at curbing violence in some of the most troubled corners of the world. In the United States, gun activists denounce it as an attack on their constitutional right to bear arms.

"Without apology, the NRA wants no part of any treaty that infringes on the precious right of lawful... [Associated Press, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Gun Rights: Why UN Small Arms Treaty is Another Land Mine for Obama</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/36395</link>
<author>Christian Science Monitor,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - After last week's shooting in Colorado, President Obama's remarks Wednesday night about gun violence were a rare departure for a president who usually steers clear of the subject. Now another gun issue is coming to a head that the president likely would just as soon avoid: the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty. …

The treaty, whose final version is due out on Friday, aims to regulate the $60 billion international trade in small arms in an effort to keep... [Christian Science Monitor, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>US Senators to Block UN Gun Trade Treaty Over Right to Bear Arms</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/36394</link>
<author>Globe &#38; Mail (Toronto) / AP,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - A bipartisan group of 51 senators on Thursday threatened to oppose a global treaty regulating international weapons trade if it falls short in protecting Americans' constitutional right to bear arms.

In a letter to President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the senators expressed serious concerns with the draft treaty that has circulated at the United Nations, saying that it signals an expansion of gun control that would be... [Globe & Mail (Toronto) / AP, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Gun Violence Shifts to Forefront of US Presidential Campaign</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/36389</link>
<author>Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Georgia) / AP,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Even as the issue of guns shifts to the forefront of the presidential campaign, the White House and the Senate's top Democrat made it clear Thursday that new gun legislation will not be on the political agenda this year. Instead, President Barack Obama intends to focus on other ways to combat gun violence — a position not unlike that of his rival, Mitt Romney.

Days after the mass shootings in Colorado, White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama still... [Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Georgia) / AP, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Lax US Gun Laws Make Canada, Mexico and Caribbean Less Safe</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/36387</link>
<author>Time (USA),  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Looming over the aftermath of the Aurora shooting is the long-standing and largely fruitless American debate over gun control. My colleague Alex Altman wrote lucidly about the paralysis that grips many U.S. politicians on both sides of the aisle when forced to account for a tragedy of this magnitude. More stringent controls could have thwarted the shooting suspect from spending months undetected while he amassed an arsenal of assault weapons, heavy ammunition and body... [Time (USA), via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>View of USA Looks Grim from Mexico&#39;s One and Only Gun Store</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/36384</link>
<author>New York Times,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[MEXICO CITY — Juan García relinquished his cellphone, walked through two metal detectors, registered with a uniformed soldier — and then finally entered Mexico's only legal gun store.

To anyone familiar with the 49,762 licensed gun dealers in the United States, or the 7,261 gun-selling pawn shops, the place looked less like a store than a government office. Customers waited on metal chairs near a fish tank to be called up to a window to submit piles of paperwork.... [New York Times, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Australian Gun Laws Prevent Purchase of US Mass Shooting Guns</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/36380</link>
<author>ABC News (Australia),  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The awful shooting tragedy in Colorado last week happened in Aurora, 30kms from Bega's sister city of Littleton, in turn adjacent to the scene of the 1999 Columbine school massacre. The Bega-Littleton Exchange was the first Australia-US sister city relationship, developed from the two communities recognising shared characteristics and values. Over the fifty years of the relationship many things have changed, particularly in Denver's satellite communities like Littleton... [ABC News (Australia), via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Land Without Guns: How Japan Has Virtually Eliminated Firearm Deaths</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/36376</link>
<author>Atlantic (USA),  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I've heard it said that, if you take a walk around Waikiki, it's only a matter of time until someone hands you a flyer of scantily clad women clutching handguns, overlaid with English and maybe Japanese text advertising one of the many local shooting ranges. The city's largest, the Royal Hawaiian Shooting Club, advertises instructors fluent in Japanese, which is also the default language of its website. For years, this peculiar Hawaiian industry has explicitly targeted... [Atlantic (USA), via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>&#39;Carrying a Firearm - That&#39;s Being an American&#39; [Francais]</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/36371</link>
<author>Le Point (France), Transcript,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[[Translated summary: Aurora's shooting has revived the debate over the right to carry firearms in the United States. Didier Combeau, researcher at the Center of Urban Studies in the English-speaking World, explains why the United States will never ban firearms.]

La fusillade d'Aurora a relancé la question du port d'armes aux États-Unis… Du moins, en apparence.

Didier Combeau, chercheur au Centre d'études urbaines dans le monde anglophone à l'université Paris... [Le Point (France), Transcript, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>America Resigned to No Change in Gun Laws Despite Mass Shooting</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/36370</link>
<author>Agence France Presse,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The alleged Colorado gunman legally purchased four guns, including a military-style assault rifle and a special magazine that meant he could fire off 50 to 60 deadly bullets a minute.

Over eight weeks he stocked up over the Internet on 6,300 rounds of ammunition: 3,000 for his .233 semi-automatic AR-15 rifle, another 3,000 for his two .22 Glocks, and 300 cartridges for his pump-action shotgun.

When the gun dealers performed the minimal background checks... [Agence France Presse, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>The Arms Trade Treaty and the US Gun Lobby&#39;s Misleading Rhetoric</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/36353</link>
<author>Arms Control Today (USA),  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The ongoing conflict in Syria - like recent wars in Burma, Congo, Liberia, Sudan, and Sierra Leone - underscores the urgent need for common standards for international transfers of conventional weapons and ammunition, as well as legally-binding requirements for all states to review exports and imports - particularly for arms transfers that could lead to human rights abuses or violate international arms embargoes.

While the United States and a few other countries have... [Arms Control Today (USA), via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Russia&#39;s Position on the Arms Trade Treaty</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/36307</link>
<author>Voice of Russia (Moscow),  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Russia has one of the most well developed arms control systems in the world and we have only one arms exporting nongovernmental agency which controls all arms trade. 

Interview with Sergey Denisentsev – expert of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies from Moscow, Russia.

What is the position of Russia on IATT?

Well, the key difference between the Russian approach towards IATT and the approach of countries of the EU is the matter of goals of IATT.... [Voice of Russia (Moscow), via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>America&#39;s Gun Lobby and Bad Law Block a Crime-busting Tool to Catch Killers</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/36278</link>
<author>CNN, Opinion,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The gun lobby is fiercely, and so far successfully, blocking what easily could be the greatest technological breakthrough to catching killers and deterring others.

The simple method allows bullet manufacturers to stamp a numeric code on shell casings that would make it very easy to identify the gun that fired the shot. But the National Rifle Association is lobbying against states enacting laws to require such "microstamping."

The gun lobby is likely to prevail, given... [CNN, Opinion, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Judge Strikes Down Part of Chicago Gun Law as Unconstitutional</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/36263</link>
<author>Sun-Times (Chicago),  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A federal judge in Chicago on Tuesday struck down a portion of the city's firearm ordinance, calling it unconstitutional.

U.S. District Judge Samuel Der-Yeghiayan ruled in favor of a Chicago man who challenged a section of the city's gun law after he was denied a permit because of a misdemeanor conviction.

Der-Yeghiayan, in a 30-page ruling, called that part of the Chicago Firearm Ordinance "unconstitutionally void for vagueness," and said it violated Shawn Gowder's... [Sun-Times (Chicago), via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Gun Culture May Contribute to Youth Suicide Rate in Rural America</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/36241</link>
<author>Atlantic (USA),  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Rural Americans between the ages of 10 and 24 are twice as likely as their urban counterparts to commit suicide. And while youth suicides have declined across the country in recent years, suicide rates in sparsely populated areas have remained steady. While it is hard to pinpoint the reasons for this disparity -- access to mental health treatments is a major contributor -- one reason may be tied to gun culture.

According to a recently published survey of Midwestern... [Atlantic (USA), via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Surge in Gun Violence in Australia as Criminals &#39;Tool Up&#39;</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/36885</link>
<author>Age (Melbourne),  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[He affects the face of a tough guy, but the gun this twitchy young man keeps for protection looks like a novelty cigarette lighter. The .22 derringer can almost be concealed in his pudgy hand, save for the stumpy barrel that sticks out between his fingers.

The speed that he deals keeps him highly strung. But it's mainly the gun that makes him edgy. "If I get caught with drugs, I wouldn't go to jail. I don't hold enough and I haven't been caught before," he says. "But... [Age (Melbourne), via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Mass Shootings Not Tightening US Gun Control Laws Anymore - Expert</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/36057</link>
<author>Agence France Presse,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO — The statistics are staggering, the stories heartbreaking, yet there is little chance that any amount of bloodshed will lead to stiffer gun controls in the United States in the foreseeable future.

"It's not something that any politician thinks is winnable," said Kristin Goss, a politics professor at Duke University and author of "Disarmed: The Missing Movement for Gun Control in America."
Five years after the worst school shooting in US history left 32... [Agence France Presse, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Battleground America: One nation, under the gun - New Yorker feature</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/36032</link>
<author>New Yorker,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Just after seven-thirty on the morning of February 27th, a seventeen-year-old boy named T. J. Lane walked into the cafeteria at Chardon High School, about thirty miles outside Cleveland. It was a Monday, and the cafeteria was filled with kids, some eating breakfast, some waiting for buses to drive them to programs at other schools, some packing up for gym class. Lane sat down at an empty table, reached into a bag, and pulled out a .22-calibre pistol. He stood up, raised... [New Yorker, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>America&#39;s Deadly Devotion to Guns: A British Columnist Meets the NRA</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/36037</link>
<author>Guardian (UK),  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There are around 90 guns for every 100 Americans yet, despite 85 fatal shootings a day, the mighty US gun lobby is as powerful as ever. In the wake of Trayvon Martin's killing, Gary Younge reports on the country's deadly attachment to firearms

At an organising breakfast for National Rifle Association (NRA) grassroots activists, Samuel Richardson, a man with whom I have not exchanged a word, passes me a note. "Please read the book Injustice by Adams," it reads. "He was... [Guardian (UK), via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>US: We Need To Talk About Guns - Blog by Andrew Rosenthal</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/35990</link>
<author>New York Times, Blog,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How many students have to be shot to death in their schools before this country has a serious discussion about guns? Are the 10 who have been gunned down just since Feb. 27 enough?

The question of the constitutional right to own guns is irrelevant here—even if you believe that the Constitution gives every last American the right to own a firearm (which The Times editorial board does not, but many other reasonable people do).

There is simply no defending the many... [New York Times, Blog, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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