In the summer of 1994, Toronto police Const. Todd Baylis was murdered with a handgun stolen from an Etobicoke widow who had inherited the World War II relic from her husband. Two years later, 14-year-old Jasmine Vanscoy of St. Catharines met a similar fate at the hands of a 17-year-old boy who shot her in the head with a handgun he had stolen from his stepfather. Last September, three men died in a hail of gunfire outside an Etobicoke housing complex, where one had... (GunPolicy.org)

I read with alarm that the General Assembly may be prepared to amend Delaware law as it pertains to the right to carry a concealed deadly weapon. Essentially the argument is that 34 other states have passed such legislation, and the right of self-protection requires that a person be permitted to carry a concealed weapon. These arguments are as phony as a three-dollar bill. The fact that legislators are cowed by the National Rifle Association says nothing about the... (GunPolicy.org)

CHEYENNE, Wyoming — Flush with victory after persuading most state legislatures to approve concealed-carry handgun laws, the National Rifle Association now is lobbying to make it easier for people to defend themselves with deadly force. In Wyoming and 11 other states, mostly in the West and the South, the NRA is backing bills to specify that people have no duty to retreat from an attacker before using deadly force. Twenty-five states already have such laws on their... (GunPolicy.org)

Senior lawmakers said yesterday they doubt a policy that allows citizens to bring legally permitted firearms into the state Capitol and General Assembly Building will change despite a lawmaker accidentally firing a pistol in his office. The .380-caliber pistol of Del. John S. Reid, R-Henrico, accidentally discharged in his seventh-floor office in the General Assembly Building on Thursday morning as he was trying to unload it. The hand-size Kel-Tec gun fired into a... (GunPolicy.org)

It began like any other January morning, only more so. A little too cold. A little too windy. The type of morning that made you wish you had moved to Key West and forgotten to tell anyone. Key West. Now there's a place. Do what you want, and no one cares. No one worries about what you're packing. People leave you alone. You don't have some broken-down newspaper man making up a column out of thin air. The gun went off. That's all the explanation anyone needs. The gun... (GunPolicy.org)

Bissau — Security forces in Guinea Bissau on Tuesday night arrested over 500 persons and seized several arms in the southeastern city of Gabu, the secretary of state for public order, Baciro Dabo confirmed here Thursday. Dabo said the weapons, including Kalachnikov guns and Makarov rifles, were seized in a systematic search operation of all houses in Gabu, the country's third largest city, aimed at reducing crime which is assuming alarming proportions countrywide.... (GunPolicy.org)