MEXICO CITY — Over the Christmas holidays, Othón Cuevas Córdova, a Mexican congressman, had his life threatened, albeit in jest. His young nephew pointed a toy pistol that he had received as a gift at the lawmaker and said, "Tío, I'm going to kill you." Mr. Cuevas was not amused. He talked to the boy's parents about the inappropriateness of giving a child a weapon, even a plastic one, in a country so overrun with violence. And he sped up the introduction in... (GunPolicy.org)

Gun owners are flooding the state with applications for concealed weapons permits, with almost 45,000 applications filed in 2008, easily a record number, quadrupling the figure from just four years ago. With the surge, about one in every 25 Utahns over age 21 could be carrying a licensed concealed weapon, according to a Salt Lake Tribune analysis of numbers from the Bureau of Criminal Identification. In December, alone, BCI received 6,000 permit requests — the... (GunPolicy.org)

Guns are cool. Way cool, in fact. Especially handguns. So are knives, swords, grenades, crossbows and pointed sticks. Must be a guy thing — hence my moral dilemma of sorts. At home, light sabres are a big hit right now — with the appropriate "Do not whack, poke or run-through your brother with that thing" warning, of course. Feel free to disagree, but generally speaking and at some level, men are aggressive, war-mongering and extremely territorial. As far as... (GunPolicy.org)

A hunting trip ended in tragedy yesterday when a man accidentally shot dead his teenage nephew in front of the boy's younger brother. Police said the trio had been rabbit shooting near a family property in Melbourne's west when the boy, 17, was fatally shot in the abdomen, shortly before 8am. Keilor Downs Det Sen-Constable Paul Kinna said the death was not considered suspicious and that police would prepare a report for the coroner. "It's just a tragic set of... (GunPolicy.org)