Gun Policy News, 5 November 2009
Canadá
Liberals Soften on Canadian Gun Law, May 'Decriminalise' Lawbreaking
5 November 2009
Toronto Star (Ontario)
OTTAWA — In a surprising softening of Liberal policy, party leader Michael Ignatieff says penalties for violating requirements of the long-gun registry could be "decriminalized" as part of an effort to broaden its legitimacy in the eyes of rural Canadians.
Ignatieff's statement set the stage for a vote hours later in the House of Commons in which a majority of MPs voted, for the first time in 14 years, to give "approval in principle" to a bill to kill the long-gun... (GunPolicy.org)
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Canadá
Reports of Canadian Gun Registry's Imminent Demise May Be Premature
5 November 2009
National Post (Toronto), Column
The cagey MP sat back holding his glass of merlot and smirked at my naive assertion that the gun registry was indeed dead.
A private member's bill killing the billion-dollar registry was endorsed with surprising strength in the House of Commons on Wednesday and is heading off to committee for fine tuning and, in theory, a rubber stamping.
Not so fast, apparently.
"It's going to the Public Safety committee," the sly Liberal MP cautioned. "Have you checked out the... (GunPolicy.org)
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Canadá
Gun Registry Queries Jump 24%, 100,000 Gun Owners Fail to Relicense
5 November 2009
CBC News (Canada)
The number of police officers using the firearms registry jumped last year, according to a report prepared by the RCMP.
Figures contained in the Mounties' annual performance report show that the number of queries to the Canadian Firearms Registry rose 24 per cent in 2008-09.
The report also says the government spent just $8.4 million on the registry last year — a third of what had been budgeted, in part because it needed 66 fewer full-time workers than the 131... (GunPolicy.org)
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Estados Unidos
Seven Shot Dead by Uniformed Snipers at US Army Base in Texas
5 November 2009
BBC News
Seven people have been killed and at least 20 injured in a pair of shootings at the Fort Hood military base in Texas, the US Army has confirmed.
One person has been arrested and at least one more is on the run, reports say. The base has been locked down.
NBC News network said the two suspects were in military uniform and that the shooter-at-large was believed to have a high-powered sniper rifle.
Fort Hood, near the town of Killeen, is the largest US base in the... (GunPolicy.org)
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Estados Unidos
12 Dead as Soldier Shoots Soldier on America's Largest Army Base
5 November 2009
CNN
Eleven people plus a gunman were killed and 31 were wounded after the gunman opened fire at Fort Hood in Texas on Thursday, a Fort Hood spokesman said.
The gunman was a soldier, and two other soldiers have been detained as suspects, said the spokesman, Lt. Gen. Bob Cone.
Cone said more than one shooter may have been involved.
President Obama called the shootings "tragic" and "a horrific outburst of violence." He expressed his condolences for the shooting victims.... (GunPolicy.org)
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Canadá
Minister Touts Favourite Canadian Gun Registry Figure, Ignores Others
5 November 2009
CBC News (Canada)
Peter Van Loan isn't releasing the annual report of the firearms commissioner until tomorrow — a deadline he must adhere to under the rules of Parliament.
But, the public safety minister was more than happy today to tell Canadians one statistic that apparently isn't in the report he received some time ago.
That one statistic — not in the report — is this.
Of the 3.5 million times police accessed the Canadian Firearms Registry last year, Van Loan says only 2.4... (GunPolicy.org)
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Estados Unidos
NRA Touts Law to Ban Adoption Agencies Asking About Gun Ownership
5 November 2009
Miami Herald
The National Rifle Association is pushing legislation to ban adoption agencies from asking potential parents if they have guns and ammunition in the home.
NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer said adoption agencies are violating gun-owners' rights by asking about firearms in an adoption form. She said any request about gun ownership from an agency connected with government was tantamount to establishing a gun registry.
"Gun registration is illegal in Florida," Hammer said. "An... (GunPolicy.org)
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Canadá
Minister Grilled Over Delayed Release of Canadian Gun Registry Report
5 November 2009
Canadian Press
OTTAWA — Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan attempted to undermine a report to Parliament on the federal gun registry Thursday — calling into question the agenda of its authors after refusing to make the report public before a crucial parliamentary vote.
The 2008 annual assessment of the Canadian Firearms Program by the RCMP will be tabled Friday, said Van Loan, 48 hours after the Conservatives won a vote in the House of Commons on legislation that would kill... (GunPolicy.org)
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Canadá
Death of Canadian Gun Registry Would Not Be a Defeat for Gun Control
5 November 2009
Globe & Mail (Toronto), Editorial
The money spent on the federal long-gun registry would be better spent on preventing handguns and other weapons from crossing the border into Canada, or on youth programs in the most at-risk neighbourhoods. If the registry dies because of a Conservative private-member's bill, which passed a key vote this week, it would not be a defeat for gun control. It would be the end of a costly bureaucratic system whose benefits are uncertain.
Conservative MP Garry Breitkreuz says... (GunPolicy.org)
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Estados Unidos
Massachusetts Supreme Court Hears Challenge to Gun Storage Law
5 November 2009
Associated Press
BOSTON — Gun control proponents argued before the state's highest court Thursday that a Massachusetts law requiring gun owners to lock weapons in their homes saves lives while gun advocates pointed to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling holding that people have a constitutional right to keep weapons for self-defense.
The case involves a Billerica man whose mentally disabled son allegedly shot at a neighbor with a BB gun. The 18-year-old showed police where his father kept... (GunPolicy.org)
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Canadá
Quebec Prepares Emotional Backlash to Thwart Gun Registry Scrapping
5 November 2009
Canadian Press
MONTREAL — If federal politicians want to kill the gun registry, the may have to stare down the families of Polytechnique massacre victims and a high-profile delegation from Quebec.
The province's public safety minister reacted furiously to a move to scrap the long-gun registry, which was inspired by the murder of 14 Montreal university students almost 20 years ago.
His comments Thursday underscored the emotional reaction to gun control in Quebec and the potential... (GunPolicy.org)
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India
Arrested Indian Gun Runners Admit to Selling Home-made Firearms
5 November 2009
Times of India / Sandesh
JAMNAGAR — Three accused arrested in arms dealing racket sold as many as nine firearms in the past one-and-half-year, said police on Wednesday. Of the trio, Munna Sursinh and Indrasinh Mahida were sent to five-day remand, while Ajay Versinh was sent to judicial custody after being produced before a court here.
According to police, the accused used to buy firearms, mainly country-made revolvers, at Rs 5,000 per piece from Jagat Singh in Dhar district of Madhya... (GunPolicy.org)
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Estados Unidos
US Army Bans Gun Carrying on Base, Imposes Strict Gun Storage Rules
5 November 2009
Newsday (New York)
Rules on carrying weapons vary among U.S. military installations, but in general they are carefully regulated, military officials said Thursday.
Soldiers typically carry weapons on bases only for specific purposes such as a training exercise, said Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, an Army spokesman based at the Pentagon.
"You would not see someone walking around with a military weapon at the PX," he said. In many cases, guns are stored in weapons rooms, and must be signed... (GunPolicy.org)
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