Just about everybody on the Metro Police force has heard of Tim Farrell, and he sometimes gets mistaken for a law enforcement officer. Farrell is simply a 29-year-old wireless Internet engineer — and a gun rights crusader. He is one of what appears to be a growing number of people taking up the "open-carry" cause, advocating a constitutional right to openly carry firearms. "The open-carry movement has gained momentum over the last four or five years because people... (GunPolicy.org)

A young mother of two died after being shot at her workplace soon after she was presented with a bunch of orange roses yesterday. Tania Donnelly, 29, a clerk in the Msunduzi municipality's electricity test and consumer centre, and mother of a 16-year-old son and four-year-old daughter, was shot twice in her stomach and once in her arm at her workplace in Havelock Road, Pietermaritzburg. She died in hospital later. Her shocked colleagues said the gunman, who was known... (GunPolicy.org)