This is it, the last America’s Shooting Gallery of 2005! Don’t worry, thanks to the NRA, there’ll be lots more killin’ to report next year. Have a great, safe, and, as always, gun free holiday weekend, and we’ll see you back here in 2006! GA: 7-year-old boy remains in the hospital after being shot by [...]
In Florida, a man chased another man down and stabbed him in the back, killing him. Before he was charged, authorities considered letting him go completely free. In Colorado, Gary Lee Hill fired on from behind and killed John Knott as Knott drove away from Hill’s house, and a jury acquitted him on all charges. [...]
Homicides have skyrocketed in New Jersey’s Hudson County this year, and we sure wish we could tell you that it was giant hamsters that caused it. But our site’s not called Giant Hamster Guys, it’s called Gun Guys, and the problem in New Jersey is– you guessed it– guns. There have been 50 homicides in [...]
We’ve heard about some strange shootings (we put a bunch of them in our America’s Shooting Gallery every day), but this is one of the strangest. Every sentence just keeps making it weirder! Authorities in Kansas said a woman who died after a car crash had been shot in the heart by pellet gun fired [...]
Well, it looks like the effects of the NRA’s advice to Canada we told you about are starting to show. The Toronto Star is reporting that the Canadian gun lobby is planning to roll out a gigantic press campaign. The message? “It’s not us.” A lobby group opposed to Ottawa’s proposed gun ban will target [...]
Just like they do every year, the City of Houston is begging their residents not to celebrate the New Year by shooting their guns into the air. This year, they’re making sure the penalties for injuring someone with celebratory gunfire are well known. The coming of the new year is a time of celebration that [...]
The problem we’ve had all along with the new “gun laws” in New York are that they focus on punishment, not prevention. The laws increase the jail time and even suggest the death penalty for those who attack police officers and traffic in illegal guns, but they do nothing to actually stop the flow of [...]
Every day we scour the Internets to find you stories of the shot, the shooters, and the shooting. We call it America’s Shooting Gallery, and here’s today’s. MI: Detroit shooting spree leaves three dead MA: 1 slain, 3 wounded in evening shooting CA: Mall gunfire spurs community against gang violence CA: Drive-by claims man, leaves [...]
The Washington Post has published an editorial by a woman who says that just trying to get regulations put on weapons and their sales isn’t enough– we need to get rid of them outright. Five years ago an elderly Los Angeles woman who had agreed to move out of her daughter’s apartment bought a handgun. [...]
So much for the vote of the people. Even though the city of San Francisco overwhelmingly voted for a handgun ban in their local muncipality, the NRA has goaded them into a settlement that allows handguns to be sold there after January 1st. Passed by local voters last month with 58 percent of the vote, [...]
First we had heat for heat, and now police are helping a community trade guns for gifts– and they were able to get 400 firearms off the streets. They came bearing sawed-off shotguns wrapped in blankets, pistols that looked like relics folded into handkerchiefs and hollowed-out hunting rifles in shopping carts. In exchange for $100 [...]
Yesterday (and previously) we reported about New York Governor Pataki’s heroes law,” which promises to “make New York safer” by increasing the punishments for illegal gun trafficking and shooting of police officers. We pointed out that increasing the punishment doesn’t really do much but make the criminal regret their act more afterwards, and news comes [...]
Welcome back from the holiday break! Today’s America’s Shooting Gallery kicks off with a story that made us cheer, and proves that you don’t need a gun to stop criminals in their tracks. WA: Man foils robbery with skills he learned at martial arts class IL: Trio charged in death of cabbie, planned to steal [...]
The Chicago Sun Times is reporting that homicides in that city will be roughly even to last year’s figures. Last year Chicago Police trumpeted a 25 percent decline in murders, which dipped below 500 for the first time in decades. With four days left in 2005, the murder tally is hovering right around last year’s [...]
The Epoch Times brags that “A Safe New York is Even Safer,” thanks to Governor Pataki’s new gun laws in that state, but while they point out that punishments are being increased every day there, they don’t say exactly why that makes anyone safer. “The passage of today’s tough new gun laws is a victory [...]
The Bismarck Tribune (in Bismarch, North Dakota) publishes an editorial with a reply to the suggestion there to lower North Dakota’s hunting age from 14 years old. In a word, they say: don’t. Under current law, one must be at least 14 and have completed firearms safety training to be able to apply for and [...]
A scary story from Cinncinnati, OH, where a man was able to build up an arsenal of military grade weapons, all completely legally. He’d just screwed up at work. He had problems at home. And finally, Michael Richardson told police, he just snapped and, in the spur of the moment, gunned down his wife, daughter [...]
Welcome back, everybody! While we were enjoying sugar cookies and egg nog, there was yet another shooting in Toronto last weekend, and yet another call from our neighbor to the north to try and stop their violence where it starts: our country. Canadian officials, seeking to make sense of another fatal shooting in what has [...]
Gun Guys will be spending next Monday and Tuesday at a safe, happy, and gun-free celebration of the season with our friends and family. And here’s hoping you do the same. Have a great holiday– we’ll see you next Wednesday. IL: Employee shot at nuclear plant during training exercises PA: Shooting of hairdresser has businesses [...]
Every week, we recieve lots and lots of mail from all over the country, and every Friday, we put it all in one big post, just so you can have an inside look at what’s been hitting our inbox this week. This week’s Mailbag (complete with warm holiday greetings from our regular contributors) starts right [...]
Cops are trading heat for heat in Rhode Island. Pawtucket police wanted to get guns off the street — so they offered free heat to people packing heat. They handed out 50 dollar heating vouchers to anyone who willing to surrender their gun. Residents turned in 46 weapons during the exchange yesterday, including an M-16 [...]
Every day here at Gun Guys, we compile a list of shootings and gun victims from around the country, and we call it America’s Shooting Gallery. The purpose of that feature is to show you exactly what gun crime is doing, every day, to the country that we live in. But this past Tuesday in [...]
Action has been taken in New York– we’re just not sure it’s the right action. Yesterday, both houses of lawmakers there passed Governor Pataki’s bills to make the penalties tougher for both selling guns illegally and shooting police officers. State lawmakers and Gov. George Pataki, acting in the wake of the recent shooting deaths of [...]
The Saugus Advertiser in Massachusetts has a sad story today that has an important ending. It’s about Anne Marie Crowell and her husband, who eight years ago sent their son to a friend’s house, where his friend accidentally shot him with a gun he was showing off. Since then, they’ve become activists, and are advocates [...]
The holidays only come once a year, but America’s Shooting Gallery slides down the chimney every day of the week. Here’s a brief review of exactly what gun violence has done to this country today. NC: Four year old boy who shot himself has died, father was a convicted felon, but still owned a firearm [...]
Canadian Tom Fletcher writes a column for the Richmond Review about the Canadian Liberal Party’s proposal of a nationwide handgun ban. Fletcher is opposed to the ban, not because he doesn’t think it will prevent crime, but because he says it doesn’t focus on where the guns are actually coming from: The United States. The [...]
The Madison County Sheriff’s Department in southern Illinois got quite a present for the holiday season: New .40 caliber Glock pistols. Madison County sheriff’s deputies will be packing new heat in 2006. The County Board voted unanimously at its meeting Wednesday night to replace the deputies’ .40-caliber Smith & Wesson service pistols with .40-caliber Glocks. [...]
We already knew that the New York Times’ readers wholeheartedly agreed with us (that’s what makes them such sensible people), but now we’ve got confirmation that the Gray Lady’s staff also reads our humble (and amazing, and informative) website. How do we know? All week we’ve been talking about New York Governor Pataki’s proposed gun [...]
Sad story from the Times-News in Kingsport, Tennessee. Karen Bogard began calling her husband’s cell phone at 9 a.m. Saturday. Chad never picked up. “I felt a deep-down, heartfelt something that told me he was just not all right,” she said. By that afternoon, a Kingsport police officer was knocking on her door. He relayed [...]
Every day, we round up news of shootings from all over the country, and compile them into our America’s Shooting Gallery. Here’s your ASG for today. NM: Two arrested in shooting at Wal-Mart store, employee and four year old girl remain hospitalized NV: Sixteen year old sentenced to detention for shooting an acquaintence with his [...]
Well apparently fighting terrorists attacking the baby Jesus isn’t the only thing Santa’s doing with a firearm this year. It seems as though the man in red does own a gun, but he’s been using it to run amok all over the world. -The Australian Herald Sun has their own roundup of Santa-related hijinx, including [...]
The Staten Island Advance runs another article about the proposed changes to legislation in New York state. After the deaths of two police officers in as many weeks, Governor Pataki has all but demanded that certain legislation gets passed in that state: first, he wants to make punishments stronger for illegal gun possession, and second, [...]
WTOK in Mississippi has published a quick note about gun locks, and using them to keep loaded weapons from children. Most shooting accidents in the home occur when a young child finds a loaded and unsecured firearm and mistakes it for a toy, but there are steps you can take to prevent tragedies from happening. [...]
We couldn’t make stuff like this up. John Snyder of the Citizen’s Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (the pro-gun group run by Alan “This is Not Acceptable” Gottlieb) has issued a press release about his Christmas card this year. Usually, press releases are supposed to look upon their subjects favorably, but [...]
America’s Shooting Gallery is our daily look at all the shootin’ going down around these United States of America. You can also read it in your inbox every day by signing up for our daily email, the Gun Guy Update. Enjoy! NM: Wal-Mart confirms shooting at store. Cleanup on aisle 17! CA: Victim in critical [...]
Every month here at Gun Guys, we sift through all the gun-related information on the Internet, and choose a very special site to share with you, one that shows off both the craziness and creativity of our favorite gun guys. This months’ SOTM combines two things we think about all the time. No, not peanut [...]
The New York Daily News is taking no prisoners on its editorial page. They’re saying very clearly that it’s “time for Albany to get tough on guns.” After two dead cops in New York in the past month, and thousands of illegal guns filling the state from Buffalo to the Bronx, tighter gun legislation is [...]
Two bits about the Wisconsin concealed carry legislation came across our screen (thanks, Xoff!) while we’re waiting for Governor Doyle’s veto. -First, the Fon Du Lac Reporter has a commentary by Dodge County sheriff Todd Nehls speaking out against the law being proposed. It sounds like he’s in favor of concealed carry (which would place [...]
The Boston Herald is reporting that the “strict” gun laws in Massachusetts have “misfired.” We’re not sure how, though– as far as we can tell, they simply weren’t strict enough. Last week state police busted a trio of alleged drug dealers from Dorchester. Victor M. Alvarado, 21, John Davis, 35, and Reggie Bragg, 35, were [...]
The Miami Herald has run an interesing piece taking a look back at the day police officers had to upgrade their weapons, and the ensuing, ongoing arms race it spawned. Feb. 28, 1997, is a day most cops won’t ever forget. Two bank robbers wearing body armor and brandishing automatic weapons turned a quiet San [...]
Something must have been in the water in America this past weekend, because today’s ASG is a doozy. Here’s your daily dose of what guns are doing to this great country of ours. IL: Woman fatally shot in car IL: 9-year-old girl finds loaded, unlocked weapon, kills her 13-year-old brother. Guns destroy another American family. [...]
Laurence Hammack from the Roanoke, Va Times takes a trip to a local gun show, and while we wish what he finds surprised us, we can’t say that it does. Gun shows, along with newspaper loopholes, are one of the major ways criminals get their hands on weapons, and it’s because there’s almost no paperwork [...]
Here we go again. A few months ago, the NRA managed to pass a “shoot first” law in Florida. Vague, unnecessary, and dangerous, the law basically makes it legal to murder anyone at any time as long as, at some point, they made you feel “threatened.” The gun lobby claims the law was designed to [...]
When the gun industry paid Congress to pass their lawsuit immunity law, they said they had to protect gun dealers and manufactuers from bankruptcy. The law, which basically makes the industry immune from lawsuits by victims of gun violence, was supposed to keep victims from taking so much money from the gun industry that they [...]
A few weeks ago, Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin promised that, if his Liberal political party was elected there, he would work to enact a handgun ban throughout Canada. There’s been lots of talk and opinion on this (including a poll that says the majority of Canadians are for the ban), but one of the [...]
News has come from New Orleans that over 600 firearms were looted in Louisiana in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Authorities are now offering rewards for anyone who can provide info that can find the stolen firearms. “This is an opportunity for citizens to step forward . . . and help us take the firearms [...]
New York City has been dealing with a good bit of gun violence lately and, like most of America, they’re ready to do something to stop it. After the deaths of two police officers in the last month, authorities were glad to hear that “Operation Double Trouble” has brought in 24 arrests. Federal prosecutors and [...]
Boston’s leaders have been calling for an end to gun violence, and for good reason: With the quadruple murder there last week, the city has hit a 10 year murder high. The slayings of four young men in a basement music studio this week cast a spotlight on a crime wave that has pushed the [...]
Every day, we post a list of all the gun related incidents we can find around America, and we call it America’s Shooting Gallery. The scariest thing is that, everytime we post these, there’s probably twice as many we haven’t heard about, and even more that never showed up in the news at all. Think [...]
The picture just keeps getting worse on the concealed weapons bill in Wisconsin. Earlier this morning, we reported that Rep. Scott Gunderson, who co-sponsored the “dangerous and unnecessary” legislation with Sen. Dave Zien, actually owns a gun and liquor store, and could very well be pushing this legislation just to increase his own bank account. [...]
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