Over the last few years, campus violence has been thrust into the spotlight alongside a rash of deadly school shootings. Two teenagers in Littleton, Colo., killed 12 students and a teacher at Columbine High School before taking their own lives nearly three years ago in the nation's deadliest school shooting. Last March, a 15-year-old boy open fired at a San Diego suburban high school, killing two students and wounding 13. Three weeks later, another San Diego teenager... (GunPolicy.org)

Plateau State Police Command has smashed an illegal firearms syndicate which specialised in hawking firearms and forging firearm licenses. State commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Fagbemi told newsmen in Jos that the arrest followed a tip off which yielded the arrest of one Wilfred Ilo who came to Jos from Onitsha and one Anieleche Akpan an ex-police sergeant who confessed being responsible for forging firearms licences. According to Mr. Fagbemi, arms recovered from... (GunPolicy.org)

It is a well-known fact that arms and ammunition of various sophistications are being smuggled into the country on a daily basis. Some of the gun runners appre-hended admitted that it is a very lucrative enterprise, it then goes without saying that the vast majority of the imported arms fall into wrong hands. Just the month of Decem-ber, 2001. A Philanthropist in Ibadan was shot dead by assa-ssins. He was killed around 9.05 pm on his way to his residence. It was... (GunPolicy.org)

Wednesday, following a news report that a Las Vegas 12-year-old left to baby-sit his 3-year-old sister had apparently managed to kill the child Tuesday with his parents shotgun and despite a preliminary ruling by police that the parents had done nothing wrong because the weapon had been in a reasonably secure location an unsigned e-mail from an address at the UNLV rolled in, stating in its entirety: Well chalk up another 3 year old as a sacrificial offering to the NRA... (GunPolicy.org)