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Inside Gun Shows: Frightening New Investigation Into Illegal Guns Sales

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Digby - Oct. 08 (News Report) - it's still necessary to highlight the fact that guns are saturating our society and the natural consequences of doing such a thing. Mayor Bloomberg has conducted an investigation into illegal gun sales that will make the hair on the back of your neck stand on end:

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Man Carrying Semi-Automatic Assault Rifle And Pistol Outside Obama Event (VIDEO)

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Lila Shapiro - Aug. 17 (News Report) - This is the third report in a week of someone bringing a gun to an event where the President was speaking. Last Tuesday a man was arrested before Obama's New Hampshire health care town hall for carrying an unlicensed loaded gun. Also outside the New Hampshire town hall, a man was seen with a (legal) handgun strapped to his leg, holding a sign referencing the famous Jefferson quote: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants." UPDATE: The Associated Press is now reporting that there were actually about a dozen armed people among the protesters in Phoenix:

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Gun Rights Advocates Hope to Flip Red-State Dems on Sotomayor

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Independent - By David Weigel - Jul. 14 (News Report) - For Republicans and many movement conservatives, the key moment of the first day of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings was not the blistering opening statement of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee who bulldozed through the most controversial parts of her record. It was the jokey, resigned statement of Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.), who regretted that President Barack Obama had given the Senate a candidate who could not be stopped.

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Longtime White Supremacist Opens Fire at DC Holocaust Museum, Killing Security Guard; Shooting is Third in as Many Months Linked to White Nationalist Groups

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Juan Gonzales, Amy Goodman, Leonard Zeskind - Jun. 11 (News Report) - It was the third recent shooting involving a gunman with ties to the white nationalist movement, following last month’s slaying of abortion provider Dr. George Tiller and the shooting of three police officers in Philadelphia in April. We speak with one of the nation’s leading researchers on right-wing hate groups, Leonard Zeskind, author of Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream. Zeskind has been closely monitoring white nationalist and anti-Semitic groups for over thirty years.

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Sonia Sotomayor versus the Second Amendment

Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Volokh Conspiracy - By David Kopel - May. 26 (News Analysis) - Judge Sotomayor's record suggests hostility, rather than empathy, for the tens of millions of Americans who exercise their right to keep and bear arms.

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Shotguns, AK-47's and Your National Parks

Thu, 21 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Nation - By Christopher Hayes - May. 21 (News Analysis) - Republicans don't mess around when it comes to taking advantage of parliamentary tactics. It's time for the Democrats to respond in kind. Perhaps Harry Reid simply isn't up to the job at hand.

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Analysis: Guns, “chukas,” and the states

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

SCOTUSblog - By Lyle Denniston - Apr. 23 (News Analysis) - “Second Amendment law,” a federal appeals court remarked earlier this week, “remains in its infancy.” But, only about a year after the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on gun rights in District of Columbia v. Heller, the Justices could soon be faced with one of the most significant issues left undecided by Heller.

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Sorting out the truth about guns in Mexico

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - By David Adams, Robert Farley - Apr. 17 (News Analysis) - With growing violence on the U.S.-Mexico border fueled by powerful drug cartels, officials from both countries have been repeating a shocking statistic to suggest this isn't just a Mexican problem.

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Gun Control Advocates Call for Stricter Laws After Spate of Mass Shootings Leaves Nearly 60 Dead

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Roxane Kolar, Amy Goodman - Apr. 09 (News Analysis) - A spate of mass shootings across the country, from Binghamton, NY to Carthage, NC, has left at least fifty-seven people dead since March 10th. In the wake of the violence, gun control advocates are calling for stricter laws across the nation. We speak with Roxane Kolar, executive director of North Carolinians Against Gun Violence.

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More Young Girls in Dallas Arrested for 'Cheese' Heroin - NAM

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New America Media - By Al Dia - Feb. 07 (News Report) - More young girls have been arrested in the last two years in Dallas county on charges related to "cheese" heroin, a highly addictive mixture of so-called black tar Mexican heroin and crushed over-the-counter medications that contain an antihistamine, according to Al Dia. Dallas officials say that up to 139 female minors were processed for having consumed "cheese," the highest number in the last few years.

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Some Issues Key to Party Identity Have Been Shunted to the Side in Denver

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Congressional Quarterly - By Drew Armstrong - Aug. 28 (Special Report) - While immigration, gay rights, gun control and trade have roiled the national debate over the past few years, at the Democratic convention they are taking a side stage -- or no stage at all. Red meat on such issues, which are dear to liberal hearts, has fallen victim to the party's success in the 2006 election and the story line that grew out of it: that moderate Democrats defeated Republicans in many conservative districts partly by taking positions on those issues that were atypical of the party.

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Leading Gun Control Activist Exposed as Gun Lobby Spy

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By James Ridgeway, Barbara Hohlt, Amy Goodman - Aug. 04 (News Report) - Mother Jones magazine has revealed a well-known activist in the gun control movement is actually a secret spy for the National Rifle Association and the gun lobby. Over the past decade, the woman, Mary Lou Sapone, managed to become active in almost every single major gun violence prevention organization. Sapone, who went by her maiden name Mary McFate, helped organize the Million Mom March in 2000 and oversaw the lobbying efforts of States United to Prevent Gun Violence. We speak with investigative journalist James Ridgeway, who helped break the story, and Barbara Hohlt of States United to Prevent Gun Violence, who knew and worked with Sapone.

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A constitutional right to a gun

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

SCOTUSblog - By Lyle Denniston - Jun. 26 (News Analysis) - Answering a 127-year old constitutional question, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to have a gun, at least in one's home. The Court, splitting 5-4, struck down a District of Columbia ban on handgun possession. Although times have changed since 1791, Justice Antonin Scalia said for the majority, "it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct."

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Teen kills father over Internet use

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

GroundReport - By Betty McMahon - Mar. 16 (News Report) - As Hughstan Schlicker's father stood in the kitchen, Hughstan approached him from behind, pointed a 12-gauge shotgun at his head and pulled the trigger. The 15-year-old Mesa, AZ, killer had a perfectly good explanation for his deed: His father had forbidden him to use the Internet.

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Green Bay Internet Gun Dealer Sold Accessories To NIU Gunman

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

weau.com - By No author listed - Feb. 15 (News Report) - An Internet gun dealer based in Green Bay that sold a weapon to the Virginia Tech shooter last year sold handgun accessories to the man who killed five at Northern Illinois University Thursday.

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Condors vs. the NRA

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:12:00 -0700

Salon - By Katharine Mieszkowski - Sep. 22 (News Report) - In Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge, an oasis of open grasslands and oak savanna in central California, California condor No. 245 spent her last moments in the wild. In late July, biologists captured the giant vulture and took her to the Los Angeles County Zoo, where a blood sample revealed that the bird suffered from severe lead poisoning. No. 245 had one of the highest blood lead levels that biologists had ever seen in a California condor, registering 10 times the amount of lead that requires treatment in the bird and 56 times the amount that calls for treatment in a human child.

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Journal-Publishing Giant Will Halt Lucrative Business in Weapons Bazaars

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:44:03 -0700

Chronicle of Higher Education - Jun. 05 (News Report) - Despite the profitability of the company's five shows -- including the Defense Systems & Equipment International Exhibition, which bills itself as "the world's most prestigious defense exhibition" -- Reed Elsevier's chief executive, Sir Crispin Davis, said in a written statement that "it has become increasingly clear that growing numbers of important customers and authors have very real concerns about our involvement in the defense exhibitions business."

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Why Democrats dumped gun control

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:56:08 -0700

Salon - By Alex Koppelman - Apr. 18 (News Analysis) - During the Bush administration, however, gun control has been all but dead as a political issue, and though George W. Bush is one of the most pro-gun presidents in history, much of the responsibility lies with Democrats. Once a popular talking point for Democratic officials and candidates, gun control has been shoved to the background over the past six years, as the party -- trying not to alienate gun-owning voters in swing states -- has cooled its rhetoric on the issue and tamped down its action. Gun control advocates haven't won a major victory since Bill Clinton was president, and since then the main anti-gun legislation of the Clinton era has either died or been stripped of its teeth.

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