According to a news brief on the New York Times on June 2: Federal authorities are investigating the origin of one of the largest gun seizures ever on the Mexico border: a cache of 147 assault rifles with banana clips and bayonets discovered in a truck being driven down a residential street in Laredo on [...]
According to the Wall Street Journal on Feb. 8th: State Trooper Jason Melson guards the Texas Capitol in Austin after a Jan. 21 shooting on the steps outside the building. Lawmakers in firearm-friendly Texas are embroiled in a debate over how to make the state Capitol safer: get rid of guns or encourage even more. [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus). For Immediate Release Contact: Andy Pelosi, 914-629-6726, andy@gunfreekids.org John Johnson, 319-389-7382, johnwjohnson@mchsi.com Bills Fail In Michigan and 11 Other States in 2009. Colorado State University Bans Guns On Campus In December; Momentum Builds To Protect Universities and Student Safety [...]
Mayors Against Illegal Guns started a new campaign, Close the Terror Gap.org to bring attention to the gaping loopholes in federal gun laws that put our national security at risk, as evidence by Major Hasan’s massacre at Fort Hood. The Chairman of the 9/11 Commission, Thomas Kean, and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg penned [...]
(We are pleased to post the following joint press release from Connecticut Against Gun Violence, Maine Citizens Against Handgun Violence, and New England Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence). FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 16, 2009 CONTACT: Cathie Whittenburg, New England Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence, necpgv@gmail.com This week, the Senate Homeland Security Committee will hold hearings [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence). For Immediate Release Friday, November 6, 2009 Contact: Peter Hamm, 202-898-0792 Washington, D.C. – Four and a half years ago, three police organizations in the United States issued advisories to warn officers that a new handgun introduced into [...]
Freedom States Alliance Press Release Contact: Scott Vogel (312) 243-8980, scott@freedomstatesalliance.org November 6, 2009 Shooting Shows Why Sen. Burr’s (NC) Amendment To Allow Veterans Suffering From Mental Illness Easy Access To Guns Is Dangerous and Deeply Flawed (Chicago) – Not even soldiers on an American military base such as Fort Hood are immune from the [...]
According to breaking news on CNN on Nov. 5th: (CNN) — Eleven people plus a gunman were killed and 31 were wounded after the gunman opened fire at Fort Hood in Texas on Thursday, a Fort Hood spokesman said. The gunman was a soldier, and two other soldiers have been detained as suspects, said the [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus). For Immediate Release Contact: Andy Pelosi 914-629-6726, andy@gunfreekids.org John Woods 703-801-2625, john.o.woods@gmail.com Marsha McCartney 214-802-6053 Campaign To Keep Guns Off Campus Shows Strong Momentum As Over 90 Universities Oppose Gun Lobby’s Radical Agenda (Austin, TX, June 2, 2009) [...]
(We are pleased to post the following statement from the Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus). For Immediate Release Contact: Andy Pelosi 914-629-6726, andy@gunfreekids.org John Woods 703-801-2625, john.o.woods@gmail.com Marsha McCartney 214-802-6053 Gun Lobby’s Dangerous Legislation Now Moves to House; Advocates Call for Leadership and Serious Efforts to Keep Guns Off Campus (Austin, TX, May 20, [...]
There are some gun owners who have a blood lust, ready and willing to shoot and kill other people, including children, for seemingly mindless reasons and just to prove that they can decide who lives and dies. According to the Associated Press on May 9th: HOUSTON – A 7-year-old boy who was allegedly shot in [...]
(We are pleased to post the following guest column from Freedom States Alliance affiliate, the New England Coalition To Prevent Gun Violence). There’s a new and extremely dangerous crop of gun bills springing up around the country that are designed to weaken federal authority to regulate guns. The goal is to get these new laws [...]
The Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus, Students For Gun-Free Schools, and the North Texas Brady Campaign held a major rally in Austin, Texas on the second anniversary of the Virginia Tech to protest state legislation to permit students to carry guns on campuses at public universities. Watch this ABC News video, and see the [...]
An article from the Dallas Morning News on Nov. 5th, reported on the remarkable power, distance, and military capability from .50 caliber BMG ammunition. While target shooting with a military-style .50 caliber sniper rifle, designed to destroy armored personnel carriers, radar installations, chemical refineries, and shoot down civilian aircraft during takeoff and landing, a 49-year-old [...]
After it was reported last week that the Harrold school district in Texas would allow teachers and staff to carry hidden and loaded guns inside its schools, Texas Governor Rick Perry has recklessly come out to say that he supports the idea. This is hardly the first, nor the last time, these ludicrous ideas will [...]
Fear, coupled with a radical and irrational ideology, can help explain why a small Texas school district could allow teachers and staff to carry a loaded and hidden handgun into their classrooms. The new and dangerous policy was rationalized as a “prevention” measure to deter a Virginia Tech type massacre or school shooting. Spare us [...]
It is difficult sometimes to comprehend just how abysmal and deficient the American system of justice can be. According to the Houston Chronicle’s report on June 30th, Joe Horn, a man who gunned down two illegal immigrants in the back when he saw them breaking into his neighbor’s home, and who was adamantly warned by [...]
In perhaps one of the saddest and most grisly shootings of recent memory, a gunman walked into a child’s birthday party and started shooting. Police are still searching for the suspect. No arrests have yet been made. According to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: A child has died from gunshot wounds suffered late Sunday at a [...]
In a remarkably persuasive and well-written “special report” posted in the Austin American-Statesman on March 31st, two doctors acknowledge how teens, many who are depressed, and mentally unstable Americans manage to obtain deadly firearms. The reason? Our lax gun laws, gaping firearm loopholes and lack of enforcement by authorities that allow the wrong individuals to [...]
In just today’s Dec. 13th 2007 “Shooting Gallery” alone, we posted three different stories about murder-suicides in Texas, Arizona, and California. These grisly killings are most often perpetuated by men, though not always. Men seek to kill their estranged wives, girlfriends or partners for a host of reasons: a continuation of domestic abuse, a breakup [...]
Background: Joe Horn, a gun owner in Pasadena, Texas, called 9-1-1 to report that he saw two burglars breaking into his neighbor’s unoccupied house on Nov. 14th, 2007. A police dispatcher warned Horn not to leave his residence and to stay inside his house. In fact, the police dispatcher spoke with Horn for several minutes, [...]
When the Freedom States Alliance coined the term “License to Murder†to describe unnecessary and dangerous legislation that the NRA has passed recently in several states, some people thought the term a bit alarmist. But, as this video and web posting will indicate, it’s indeed quite accurate. Watch the entire video; it is chilling. What [...]
Freedom States Alliance Communications Director Scott Vogel was interviewed on John Gibson’s Fox News radio program last night about the gun lobby’s agenda to pass “shoot first laws” across the country. Needless to say during the Fox News interview, John Gibson became unhinged and cut the interview off when Vogel calmly debated and challenged Gibson’s [...]
Finally today, ProtestEasyGuns.com wants you to know about two more lie-in protests going on tomorrow, both in Texas. Protesters will take to the streets in both Dallas and Houston tomorrow morning at 11 am, all dressed in black, to lie down as the names of the 32 victims at Virginia Tech are read aloud. We [...]
Here’s a strange story of a Pakistani student who authorities believe was here doing paramilitary training in order to fight against US soldiers overseas. Why would a student in training to fight our soldiers come here to do it? Why, where else would get be able to fire an assault weapon? A Pakistani student was [...]
The gun guys love to claim certain states as their own, and Texas is usually one of them– License to Murder unfortunately passed there easily earlier this year, and now Texas is facing the “guns at work” bill that even Florida wouldn’t touch. The Chicago Tribune has an interesting look up from Houston about how [...]
Here’s a look at two pieces of legislation that are being affected already by what happened at Virginia Tech earlier this week. In Louisiana, legislators are moving forward on a bill that would make sure college campuses have the right to protect their students from gun violence by keeping firearms out of dorms once and [...]
The NRA’s License to Murder law has experienced a resurgence recently– the NRA is currently pushing efforts to get it passed in Minnesota, Texas, and other states around the country. They claim the law (which you can read more about on Freedom States Alliance’s License to Murder website) is just a clarification on self defense [...]
The latest state to see an NRA push for its heinous License to Murder law is Texas. You’d think that “self defense” would already be on the lawbooks in Texas, and it is– all Texans already have the legal right to attack someone who’s attacking them, with deadly force if necessary. But the NRA is [...]
Tomorrow, we’ll have a feature that takes a look back at some of the craziest gun guys stories we’ve published this year. But before we do that, we’ve got one more for you. A few months ago, a sheriff’s deputy was wounded during a routine traffic stop in Tyler County, Texas. But apparently there never [...]
We’ve seen this before– we have no idea why the gun lobby keeps thinking it’s a good idea to try and get blind people hunting. A state lawmaker wants to make sure no Texan is left out when it comes to hunting, even if the hunter is legally blind. Rep. Edmund Kuempel, a Seguin Republican, [...]
Authorities have picked up a man who ran illegal firearms to Mexican drug dealers. Take a guess where he got his guns– if you guessed North of the Border, you’d be right. A Lancaster man under investigation in the sale of high-powered weapons to Mexican drug traffickers is expected to plead guilty to a federal [...]
It’s been a while since we’ve heard from the NRA’s License to Murder law, but it’s still here, and in Texas, it’s fighting its way into the lawbooks. The way state Sen. Jeff Wentworth sees it, Texans should be allowed to do whatever is necessary to protect themselves and their property without facing prosecution. Even [...]
The Houston Chronicle has written up an editorial about that gun store owner who put out a radio ad targeting evacuees of Hurrican Katrina– he called up Houstonians to come to his gun store so they could defend themselves against the “Katricians,” who he blamed for crime in the city. We’ve already told you what [...]
This is really crazy– in Houston, a gun dealer is advertising on a radio commercial that calls out Katrina evacuees. And it’s not even that he’s trying to sell guns to them (the NRA recently tried to convince the evacuees, stupidly, that they needed guns to protect themselves). He’s trying to sell guns because of [...]
This incident showed up yesterday in our ASG, but it’s definitely an accurate portrayal of just how far-reaching gun violence is, so we figured it deserved another look. In Texas, a standoff took place that ended up wounding the entire police shift of the town of Midlothian, and ended with suicide. Sgt. Brian Woolery and [...]
The FBI has named Dallas, Texas the most dangerous city in the country. And what are city council leaders doing there to eradicate the growing violence? They’re banning toy guns. Traditional playground games such as cowboys and Indians in the heart of America’s old wild west are facing high noon after a proposal to outlaw [...]
There was a shooting at a convenience store Monday night in Dallas, TX. Apparently, after a customer threatned a clerk during a holdup (was the customer armed? the article doesn’t say), the clerk shot the customer. And now the CBS affiliate in Dallas is using the shooting as a chance to take a look at [...]
The Houston Chronicle has posted an editorial telling an indicted Tom DeLay that after you make your bed, sleeping in it is pretty much mandatory. The concealed gun law passed by the Texas Legislature in 1995 couldn’t be clearer. A citizen’s license to carry a handgun may be suspended if the holder is charged with [...]
Looks like NRA buddy Tom DeLay has got a little more trouble to deal with. As they say in his native Lone Star state, on accounta his felonyin’, he cain’t carry a gun no more. Oh my goodness gracious, Dirty Harry DeLay is nosed-up against a roadblock. It seems the Republican controlled Texas Legislature passed [...]
This is kind of funny. Tom DeLay, the representative from Texas indicted in a campaign finance scheme and forced to step down as House Majority leader, is way more optimistic than we are: he’s still planning to run this Fall and keep his seat in the House. The guy’s indicted on criminal conspiracy charges, and [...]
Despite all efforts to the contrary, it looks like the arms race between police and criminals continues. The Dallas Arms Collectors Association, good ol’ gun guys that they are, have “donated” assault rifles and .50 caliber rifles to the Dallas Police Department, claiming that the cops need the guns to keep up with what’s showing [...]
We’ve been scouring our agents in the field for stories about America’s gun culture today, but it seems there’s only one word on all of their lips: Cheney. Almost all the news out there about guns involved our nation’s Vice President shooting a lawyer buddy of his. -From the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, [...]
Lots more news going around about our Vice President’s outing with a weapon this past weekend, which resulted in a hunting partner of his with a face full of birdshot. -The Violence Policy Center notes that Cheney’s victim is just one in a long line of Americans hurt by gun violence. Saturday’s shooting of a [...]
Boy howdy! While we were sitting at home watching the snow fall on Saturday, apparently our dear Vice President Dick Cheney was spending the day showing the nation exactly what gun safety means. THE US Vice-President, Dick Cheney, a favourite with the National Rifle Association and a long-time hunting enthusiast, has accidentally shot Harry Whittington, [...]
Here’s the thing about the NRA. They lie. Repeatedly. If we weren’t sure about it, we wouldn’t say it. The NRA lies, and they lie, literally, all the time. Take a look at this Eddie Eagle issue. Last year, the Racine, Wisconsin city council voted to let the Eddie Eagle program into schools to teach [...]
KWTX in Texas is reporting that firearms were the most lethal threat to police officers last year. An FBI report says 139 police officers were killed in the line of duty last year, 16 of them in Texas. Fifty-four of the officers were shot to death and 48 were killed in traffic accidents. Three Texas [...]
Yes, it’s the second time in two days, but as we said yesterday, we can’t pass up a good “man shoots self” story. HOUSTON – A man died Wednesday morning after he accidentally shot himself at a motel in southwest Houston. Homicide detectives with the Houston Police Department said the man was carrying some packages [...]
Hen-Jen “Andrew” Wu has been sentenced to three years for selling more than 60 guns illegally in the Austin, Texas area, most of them through the local newspaper. His wife pleaded with the judge at the sentencing on Tuesday, but the judge rightfully put Wu away for three years, and will deport him after he [...]
Now, as much as our boss may not like to hear it, we have to admit that we’ve taken a thing or two from the workplace every once in a while. Maybe we’ll forget that we had that pen in our pocket, or that we nabbed half a box of staples when our Swingline at [...]
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