Gun Policy News, 18 November 2009
Hardware Shop Owner Calls for More Gun Permits in Trinidad
18 November 2009
Trinidad and Tobago Express
President of the Trinidad and Tobago Hardware Association, Joseph Callendar, is calling on the Government and Acting Commissioner of Police James Philbert to issue firearm users' licences to hardware owners, after his hardware was robbed on Friday morning.
Callendar said he is appealing to the Government to allow hardware owners to carry guns. 'We are getting robbed and we don't have any guns. We are totally unprotected,' he said.
He said, on Friday around 2 a.m.,... (GunPolicy.org)
Drive-by AK-47 Killer Another Iraq Veteran from Notorious US Army Unit
18 November 2009
Colorado Springs Gazette
A jury today found a Fort Carson soldier guilty on all counts in a pair of drive-by shootings that left two people dead and one injured.
The eight-woman, four-man jury took nearly seven hours to find Jomar Falu-Vives, a 25-year-old Iraq war veteran, guilty of first-degree murder in the June 6, 2008, deaths of Amairany "Mayra" Cervantes, 18 and Cesar Ramirez-Ibanez, 20. The couple was placing garage sale signs in their southeast Colorado Springs neighborhood when they... (GunPolicy.org)