Gun-toting, tough-talking, and anti-establishment to his muddy boot straps, Larry Mullens is an Oklahoman "good ole boy" personified. He is also fast becoming a classic American folk hero as he takes centre stage in a revolt of gun owners that is reverberating in boardrooms across the United States. The son of one of the last of the old-style Wild West ranchers, he first fired a gun as a boy. Now he carries his trusty Winchester in his pick-up on his way to work at a... (GunPolicy.org)

Two huge media organizations here in the region are now poised to request Philippine National Police Region 10 (PNP-10) director Dante Tejada permits for journalists to carry firearms in public. Senator Aquilino "Nene" Pimentel, Jr. said "guns-for-hire" against media practitioners kill with "impunity" in Mindanao. In separate interviews with Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro, Cagayan de Oro Press Club (COPC) president Jerry Orcullo and Philippine National Police Press Corps... (GunPolicy.org)

FLORENCE — The shooting was clearly an accident — even the judge agreed. And still, Coos County's former coroner found himself at the jailhouse last month, serving most of a 30-day sentence for felony assault — his first conviction after 29 years as a practicing physician and 15 years as the county's medical examiner. Now he is likely to lose his medical license. But this case is as much about the right to self-defense as it is about the fall of a prominent... (GunPolicy.org)