We had ourselves a nice vacation, but looks like gun violence forgot to take a week off. CA: Police make arrest in weekend San Jose slaying CA: One killed, one wounded in San Leandro shooting WA: Jewish center gunman’s parents offer condolences at funeral of victim MA: Woman is gunned down exactly four years later [...]
Good news from Pennsylvania… or is it? The ATF has announced that they have revoked the firearms license of one Lou’s Loans, a gun dealer accused of selling both guns used in crime and guns directly to criminals. The federal government on Monday revoked the license of a gun shop that has been accused of [...]
Speaking of License to Murder, here’s a case that makes two things clear about the law in Florida: possessing drugs is illegal, while apparently prostitution and murder are totally fine. A prostitute who told deputies she shot a 72-year-old customer in self-defense will not be prosecuted for the slaying. Prosecutors have dropped a second-degree murder [...]
As any glance in almost any paper across the country will tell you, America’s political scene is changing by the second. And one thing that’s not so sure anymore is the right wing’s supposedly sure thing: “Guns, God, and gays.” Now we don’t know much about the other two, but we know plenty about guns. [...]
David Harsanyi isn’t quite right about the License to Murder law in his column from early last week. Unless unforeseen evidence emerges, it seems that Lawrence Kintz of Aurora was well within his rights Tuesday when he used his 12-gauge shotgun to shoot and kill a man climbing in his window. Aurora police told me [...]
We’re back! Here we are, folks, back from our restful week of vacation. Of course the news didn’t stop while we were gone (and hasn’t stopped coming this week, either), so here’s a quick look back at what you didn’t see here last week. -Gun violence continued, of course. In Seattle, an Islamic man with [...]
Gun Guys will be off on summer vacation starting Friday, July 21. We will return with all of our regular gun news and commentary on July 31. See you then. AZ: Police stay busy in slew of Saturday shootings IL: Teen charged in murder of mother of three KY: Police searching for two people after [...]
Sometimes it’s a burden to be so right all the time, but here we are again. Recently, against the wishes of Kansas’ police officers, their prosecutors, and even most of their citizens, Kansas’ legislators recently passed a concealed weapons bill there. But, just as we said when it happened, Kansas now finds itself having to [...]
Here’s yet another city plagued by gun violence, seemingly without the legal means to end it. This time we’re in Oakland, California, where citizens’ attempts at fighting crime are tied up by red tape and politics. State Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata got an earful Wednesday from a group of public officials and nonprofit [...]
New West Travel and Outdoors editor Bill Schnieder has an article up that finally sets the record straight on the NRA: they don’t work for hunters or shooters. They’re a lobby– they work for the gun industry. Again, for the record, I own lots of guns; I’ve hunted all my life (which is a long [...]
We don’t really know what to say about this story, so we’ll just give it to you straight: Kelly Honeycutt has multiple sclerosis, uses a wheelchair, and is legally blind. On Saturday night, he was cleaning his .38-caliber Special Rossi revolver with a friend when his wife came home with dinner. Unfortunately, police are saying [...]
The violence continues, every single day in America. AZ: SWAT team shoots man after he holds his wife at gunpoint IN: Triple homicide suspect sought by police KY: One dead after police chase ends in gunfire TX: Man accused of shooting at park WY: Police say deaths of three University students is a murder-suicide TN: [...]
Finally, we have this article from the Philadelphia Daily News, in which John Baer kind of cracks open the whole issue of violence for discussion. What will it take to stop the bloodshed in Philadelphia? His readers have all kinds of ideas. David T. says to do what New York did: Put up a map, [...]
An Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics has decided courtrooms apparently aren’t dangerous enough. They’ve decided, for some strange reason, that judges should go around packing underneath their robes. It’s one way to assure order in the court. The New York state Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics has ruled that it is permissible for judges to [...]
A sad story from Ohio makes us ask one of the most important questions you can ask about gun violence: where did the gun come from? A man who recently sought help for depression shot and killed his girlfriend during an argument and then killed himself as his father looked on, authorities said. Rollie Morgan, [...]
Is it Wednesday already? The ATF has shut down yet another rogue gun dealer, this time in Santa Barbara, where a gun store in Dodge City has run afoul of the law for what is hopefully the last time. Special Agent in Charge John A. Torres, Los Angeles Field Division, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms [...]
Here’s just a little bit of the gun violence the gun industry should be held responsible for. OH: Suspect’s identity released in shooting investigation MA: In middle of the afternoon, man found shot in street AL: Mobile woman shot to death in front of children CA: 19-year-old held in what police say is a gang [...]
Finally today, Ruben Rosario, a columnist in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, opens up a can talking about these two crazy gun bills the House has passed– the gun lock bill, and another that would actually make it illegal for cops to share information about crime guns with each other. No bill has ever been written that [...]
New research about violence in Philadelphia doesn’t bode well at all: once upon a time, crime seemed to be centered on weekends. But as the Inky points out, now, “any day can be a killing day.” According to data provided by the Philadelphia Police Department, the largest number of homicides, 32, occurred on Friday. The [...]
Another trigger lock editorial, this time from the Tennessean. Last year, the NRA passed a gun bill through Congress that basically made it illegal for gun violence victims to sue the gun industry for making guns that are used to kill people. One of the reasons they got it through was because the gun industry [...]
Front Sight Firearms Ranch, (not so) affectionately known as “Disneyland for gun lovers,” is back in the news again. Way back in November, they got hit with a lawsuit for racketeering– some of their “members” had paid thousands of dollars to get certain benefits at the place, and apparently they weren’t getting them. Now, a [...]
Why are we fighting for stronger gun laws? Look no futher than the shooting gallery we call America. CA: Boys, 3 and 6, remain hospitalized while police search for their shooter OH: One arrested in deli robbery that turned into shooting GA: Sheriff’s deputy charged with murder after argument with prostitute NY: Brooklyn man remains [...]
What’s next for the Senate? Are they going to outlaw reindeer with glowing noses? Sure, it seems like a strange question, but when you consider that they just outlawed “confiscation of guns during disaster periods,” the Senate voting to outlaw something imaginary doesn’t seem that farfetched. Because the whole guns disaster thing was something the [...]
Well Kansas approved a concealed weapons bill earlier this year (even though police were opposed to it, the Governor had reservations about it, and most citizens in Kansas didn’t want it), and the fallout is showing up already. A school district there is making it their policy to make sure they have signs in front [...]
Sad news over the weekend from Washington, DC, where a former Bush administration official killed his son and then himself with a shotgun after an argument. William H. Lash III, 45, was an assistant secretary of commerce from 2001 until last year, then returned to teach at George Mason University Law School in Arlington, where [...]
It appears a South Carolina lawmaker (and we assume, formerly “law-abiding gun owner” of the NRA) got a little hot under the collar Saturday evening. Unfortunately, he had his gun with him. A South Carolina lawmaker was arrested after his pistol fired when he went to investigate utility workers checking for storm damage in the [...]
Gun Guys will have the day off tomorrow. We’ll return with your gun news and commentary on Monday, July 17th. VA: Police arrest one in case of shot 15-year-old who, according to mother, still has bullet in her brain FL: Cops looking for two suspects in Kissimee double shooting CA: 16-year-old shot while taking a [...]
Here’s yet another editorial, this time from the St. Petersburg Times in Florida, begging the Senate not to approve the two gun laws currently working their way through Congress. The gun lobby usually gets its way with Congress, but we hope lawmakers will just say no to the latest attempt to undo two common-sense gun [...]
Reader Beth Martin sent us this piece she spotted on the conservative news website CNS.com. Apparently even though it’s got the support of President Bush and Republican leaders in Congress, the extremist gun group Gun Owners of America is opposing the Voting Rights Act, a law up for renewal that would let anyone with a [...]
Here’s an interesting case in St. Louis, Missouri, where a police officer was charged with possessing a fully automatic weapon, illegal under current laws there. The defendant’s attorney in the case suggested that the officer could possess the gun, because he would supposedly only use it to fight crime. But the judge then decided that [...]
OneWorld has the final word on the UN’s gun summit over the weekend of the Fourth of July. Despite the fact that thousands around the world are dead and dying because of illegal small arms trade, it appears practically nothing got done, thanks in large part to the NRA’s uncalled-for intervention in the UN process. [...]
As the gun lobby tells lies and Congress fails to pass stronger gun laws, the violence and bloodshed continues. SC: Beauty school reopens, shaken, after shooting TX: Two men accused of weekend shooting spree are in custody WV: Man accused of shooting at police sent to a grand jury NE: Shooter who killed man walking [...]
Finally, the Washington Post has a blistering editorial up today about the gun lock law working its way through the House. Representatives there, spurred by the NRA, are working to reverse a law that requires gun locks to be sold with handguns, and the fact that these politicians would actively work to endanger American children [...]
The Florida Times-Union has a look at how the License to Murder law is going in Florida. For prosecutors trying to make a case against killers, it’s not good. Last year, Florida’s new “deadly force” law was simply an interesting newspaper story to Doug Freeman. This year, it may have saved him from prison. Freeman, [...]
ABC7 in New York has a new look up today at Bloomberg’s campaign to get guns off the streets of NYC. Apparently the City Council has decided to back him up. These are basically some of the same bills first proposed by Mayor Bloomberg. The laws will almost surely pass, giving New York City some [...]
Even though we reported this story in yesterday’s America’s Shooting Gallery, a few of our readers have sent in mail pointing it out to us, so we thought we’d revisit it this afternoon. Yesterday, in Los Angeles, off duty police officer Enrique Chavez fell out of his truck, shot in the back and asking for [...]
Authorities in Rhode Island arrested Derek Woollam earlier this week for the illegal possession of firearms after a shooting death last week. After looking into Woollam’s records, they found his name at a storage facility, and since we got this news from our friends at .50caliberterror.com, guess, just guess, what they found there. Then on [...]
Gun violence happens every day in America, and lots of it shows up right here in America’s Shooting Gallery. CA: Officer critically wounded after being shot by 4-year-old son OH: Two women killed in domestic violence shootings KY: Four dead after spree that ended in suicide KS: Man seriously injured in apartment shooting GA: Girl, [...]
Niko and Theo Milonopoulos are nineteen year old twin brothers in Los Angeles. While they’re attending Stanford University, they’ve started two different groups meant to counteract gun violence. These guys are awesome (we’ve written about them before), and today they have an editorial in the San Francisco Gate that has a different tactic from the [...]
The Lowell Sun is Massachusetts uncovers one of the dirty secrets of gun crime. Once guns are seized from criminals, it’s almost anyone’s guess where they’ll end up again. An expose in The Sunday Sun (July 2) revealed that thousands of guns confiscated from individuals facing domestic-abuse violations wind up in bonded public warehouses for [...]
The Daily Record in York, Pennsylvania has news of a chance to finally pass this one-handgun-a-month law in Pennsylvania, but for some reason there’s only a one-day window. Anti-gun lawmakers will get a shot this fall to advance new gun laws in a rare, one-day House session. Rep. Dwight Evans, D-Philadelphia, brokered a deal with [...]
We really enjoyed this letter in the Indy Star, which basically says exactly the same things we did about that Indiana law that gives out lifetime handgun permits. With the enactment of House Enrolled Act 1174, Indiana government is again playing Russian roulette with the safety of its citizens (“Indiana allows lifetime gun permits,” July [...]
If you’re wondering what effects our loose gun laws have, look no further than your daily ASG. NY: Man charged with killing popular restaurant owner TX: Houston police find body in trunk, no idea where it came from TX: Two men sought after firing a shotgun at least 10 times around the city, injuring one [...]
Finally, the Florida Herald-Tribune lays into Rep. Marilyn Musgrave for proposing that bill in the House of Representatives to discontinue the rule that gun dealers have to sell gun locks with every handgun purchase. Last year, President Bush signed legislation granting the gun industry sweeping protections against civil lawsuits. The only redeeming feature of the [...]
An editorial in the Philly Inky echoes exactly what we said last week: while an illegal gun task force in Pennsylvania is a good idea, it’s only stronger gun laws that are going to get the job done. No question, forming a joint task force out of State Attorney General Thomas Corbett’s office will aim [...]
When the Brady Group released that report last week on “Rogue Gun Dealers,” we focused on the news that the NRA had elected a dirty gun dealer to their organization’s board. But there’s lots more in that report, including information on a bill currently working through Congress that would let gun dealers stay in business [...]
The Boston Pheonix has bad news from Beantown: this summer is shaping up to be one of the worst in 15 years there for gun violence. Three months ago, Boston was averaging a shooting a day. It is an even deadlier place to live this summer. Since the start of May there have been, on [...]
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has a closeup look at the hairy world where politics and gun violence meet. In Illinois, Governor Rod Blagojevich has been working hard in Chicago to get guns off the street and out of criminal hands. But the Post-Dispatch says that downstate, in much more rural areas, Blago’s telling a different [...]
There’s no question gun violence is out of control in this country. The only question is: what are we going to do about it? FL: Man driving in car with family was shot and killed in Orlando’s 33rd homicide of the year HI: Triple murder is result of botched robbery MD: Family of shooting victim [...]
Finally, the writings of the two student killers at Columbine High School were released to the public yesterday, and what authorities are finding is a lot of clear trouble signals that no one seemed to pick up on. “I hate you people for leaving me out of so many things,” high-school senior Eric Harris wrote [...]
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