Another day, another round of gun violence. Stronger gun laws are the only cure. OH: “Ghost house” shooter indicted– if License to Murder had passed, he’d be walking around free NC: School shooting suspect was obsessed with Columbine PA: Philadelphia shootings leave several dead, more wounded WI: 13-year-old girl shot in Milwaukee GA: Second victim [...]
The Agoura Hills Target Range hasn’t seen just one suicide within its walls since it opened in 1982. When Robert Kramer shot himself there on August 18th, it was the seventh suicide that’s occured at the shooting range. Over the years, Robert Kramer, 57, periodically visited the Agoura Hills Target Range. Although Jim Davis, owner [...]
A scary story out of Pennsylvania, where a lawmaker who’s done some fighting against gun violence has become a victim of it– his ex-wife and sister were shot and wounded in their home, and now State Rep. John Myers’ son is missing and presumed abducted. The adult son of a Pennsylvania lawmaker was missing yesterday [...]
Another gun dealer has folded in New York City Mayor Bloomberg’s campaign to get rid of gun dealers who allow straw purchases. This one’s closer to home– the gun store that lost its license is in Queens. A gun dealer charged with illegally selling a firearm after a sting operation pleaded guilty Wednesday to disorderly [...]
It’s September now, which means school is starting. Unfortunately, that also means school shootings are in session as well. A 19-year-old who was taken into custody following a school shooting Wednesday afternoon was charged with killing his father earlier in the day, according to the Orange County, North Carolina, sheriff’s office. The teen fired eight [...]
School’s back in session across the country, which means school shootings are starting to make an appearance, too. TX: Gunman takes woman hostage, then shoots police officer through wall before killing himself OK: Man arrested for late-night murder NC: Two injured in high school shooting– shotgun and possible assult rifle recovered by police NV: Man [...]
We think we’ve found our new favorite gun store– Steele’s Gun Shop on Route 9 in Maryland. Charlie Steele isn’t just interested in exotic and high powered guns, he’s interested in selling them as fast and as quick as possible to anyone who wants one. Anything weird and different — we carry it,” said Charlie [...]
Very much enjoyed this letter to the Huntsville, Ontario newspaper. Yes, it’s in Canada, and we’re a site about gun laws in America, but it seems that no matter where you go in the world, gun clubs and shooting ranges are equally disliked by everyone. What poetic justice it was to pick up August 16 [...]
The good news: Randy Tisdale of Virginia got sentenced to 10 years for straw purchasing a weapon for an alledged stalker friend of his. The bad news: the judge in the case suspended every single year of the sentence. A Hanover County judge gave a man 10 years, all suspended, yesterday for illegally purchasing a [...]
The Reading Eagle has posted another editorial, this time in praise of a gun trace that revealed (and helped capture) the killer of a Reading police officer. The Issue: Agents with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have traced the handgun reportedly used to kill a Reading policeman and arrested a man [...]
Every day, the gunshots ring out from coast to coast. It’s not going to stop until we pass the laws we need. GA: Judge charged after pointing gun during road rage incident OK: Man with a gun arrested on University of Tulsa campus OH: Shooting shines spotlight on after-hours bar GA: Man charged with shooting [...]
The Miami Herald has news of a new Violence Policy Center report that says most murder-suicides happen in the home, between partners, with (you guessed it) a gun. Rafael Soto neatly placed on his bed the clothes he wanted his girlfriend and himself to wear at their funeral. He left behind photographs of their kids, [...]
The Boston Globe asks an interesting question about New York City Mayor Bloomberg’s fight against gun dealers who fund the pipeline of illegal guns terrorizing his city: Bloomberg’s campaign is working (two gun dealers have already agreed to unprecedented monitoring), but could it work in Boston, too? In an effort to stop the flow of [...]
Another sad story of gun violence from Pennsylvania, where a one-gun-a-month bill is necessary (and proposed by a begging public), but politicans have yet to show support for it. Nov. 18, 1996, was just another ordinary Monday. Reyes, a graphic artist, was working at her studio in Huntingdon Valley. At 3:30 p.m., the telephone rang. [...]
Ken Tracy of the Miami, OH Board of Trustees sets the record straight on guns in public parks: To the chagrin of gun owners, the answer is no. Do children, parks and guns go together? During the last couple of weeks, I’ve had the opportunity to research, study and discuss with several township residents Ohio’s [...]
The backlash against License to Murder in Florida continues. This time, the Miami Herald lays out exactly how the NRA’s new law helps criminals out with their legal defenses. The legal defense of Red Rock and Yellow Man, a couple of feuding Liberty City street thugs up on murder charges, has been bolstered by 62 [...]
Gun Guys will be taking our final summer vacation this weekend. We’ll be out Friday and Monday, August 25th and 28th, and we’ll return with a full Fall of news on Tuesday, August 29th. See you then. AZ: 11-year-old boy shot in the face by 8-year-old CO: 63-year-old shot in the chest back in stable [...]
Elmer Smith’s latest column over at Philly.com takes a look at two different cases of supposed self defense in Pennsylvania. One of them, attorneys have ruled, is self defense, and another one isn’t. Smith doesn’t really think either one is, but under the NRA’s new License to Murder law (currently threatening to pass in PA), [...]
Jon Scholes from Washington Ceasefire has written a terrific article for the Seattle Times about the shooting at the Jewish Community Center there, and exactly how we can prevent such violence in the future. Two Seattle neighborhoods were met with mass shooters armed with high-powered guns that indiscriminately ended lives. A mother and her daughter [...]
Here’s a sad story from Ohio which relates exactly why the NRA’s License to Murder reasoning is so dangerous. Rachel Barezinsky was a 17-year-old ghost hunter, who, with her friends, got out of their car to investigate a “spooky house” in the neighborhood. They took a few steps onto the property, then heard something that [...]
We’ve talked before about how toy guns are a problem– they can cause issues with police officers who can’t tell, in a split second, what’s real and what’s not, and they’re significant of a larger, dangerously apathetic attitude towards firearms and the violence they make possible. That’s why Jenny González in Springfield, MA decided to [...]
Every day, gunshots ring out all across the country. Here’s just a few. OR: 91-year-old kills wife, self GA: Inmate shoots deputy with his own gun, later shot to death after chase VA: Man sentenced to jail for shooting cat TX: Three women admit to shooting, robbing man NV: Man murdered in mobile home park [...]
Finally, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, police were able to catch a felon selling stolen guns– thanks to the quick report of their theft. A federal court in Birmingham found a Tuscaloosa man guilty Tuesday of possession of a firearm by a felon. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Calvin Lee Burrell, 38, will spend more than a [...]
Cops in Chicago have busted a video store clerk for selling BB guns to children. Making good on warnings that BB-guns are illegal in Chicago, police have busted a Northwest Side store owner for selling one of the plastic weapons to a 13-year-old boy, authorities said Monday. William Garriga, 55, owner of Divas Videos and [...]
We liked Mike Seate’s latest column, in which he points out that the NRA would love the story of Karena Dorsey, a woman who “opened fire” on a thief “to recover her personal property.” They would love it, that is, if Dorsey wasn’t a crack dealer. My disappointment stems from vain hopes I had that [...]
With gun guys around the country trying to put the hunting age as low as eight years old, it’s almost predicatable that one gun store in Texas has actually created a kids’ section. You’re never too young for a gun, says Beverly Melton. “A lot of guys come in and want to buy a Crickett [...]
Cops in Ohio have finally shut down one of the people most reponsible for filling the streets with guns there– and it turns out to be one of their own. A former Columbus police officer illegally sold 501 guns last year — including one that was found with two Somali men now charged in a [...]
The second headline in today’s ASG has it right: it’s a shooting gallery. NY: Syracuse authorities pick up 14 in gang crackdown NC: “Drive-bys turn neighborhood into shooting gallery” FL: Detectives seal off scene at home with crime tape after shooting NE: Shooting victim hospitalized after fight over parking spot IL: Man charged in drive-by [...]
The NRA made quite a fuss late last year after the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. They wanted every police officer and mayor around the country to make a pledge to never confiscate guns from citizens during times of disaster. But that’s a terrible idea, because guns were one reason Katrina went so wrong. And now, [...]
The Miami Herald has a look at some of the most tragic victims of gun violence: innocent children killed in the crossfire. Blood smeared Luwana Westberry’s hands, her stomach clenched in agony and she knew. Her only son, Jarobe Brooks, a 10-year-old boy so mature he was nicknamed ”Man Man,” was dead. A bullet had [...]
We can’t really figure out what to say about this. News has come in of a new fabric that bulletproof vests are being built with– they’re not just bulky, now they’re fashionable, too. And check out this insane scene from the beginning. “Who here hasn’t been shot?” Miguel Caballero is walking around his company’s showroom [...]
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 [...]
Josh Sugarmann’s at it again over on the Huffington Post, and this time his target is none other than John McCain, rumored to be the next Republican candidate for President. A front-page story in today’s New York Times details how Arizona Senator John McCain is “locking up a cast of top-shelf Republican strategists, policy experts, [...]
Well, you can listen to the LCAV report to hear that gun laws are inadequate, or you can just look at the blood shed on our country’s streets every single day. IL: Teen found shot dead in suburban field TX: Three officers, one trooper wounded during standoff with gunman GA: Sheriff’s deputy and inmate wounded [...]
The Legal Community Against Gun Violence has released a report detailing the United States’ gun laws, and they’re saying there is plenty of room for “opportunity.” From the press release: In a report released today, Legal Community Against Violence (LCAV) presents a comprehensive, national review of federal, state and selected local laws on more than [...]
The NRA has been getting their way on gun laws lately– from last year’s gun lawsuit immunity bill, to this year’s anti-trigger lock bills, and unwanted concealed weapons bills around the country. So it should come as no surprise, then, that we’re in for some trouble ahead. In a shift from trends of the past [...]
License to Murder has been getting a lot of press lately– it’s the NRA’s latest attempt at legislation, designed to widen the definition of self defense to include things most people would call murder. But time and time again, legal experts have said that not only is the NRA’s bill terribly written, it’s just completely [...]
Here’s a messy, sad story out of North Dakota. When a fight broke out between two men at a shooting range, Steve Peterson tried to step in the middle and end it. That’s when, unfortunately, he got shot, and now it turns out the man who shot him shouldn’t have even been able to buy [...]
Every day in America, more blood is shed on the streets. Here’s what happened today. IN: Second teen arrested in shooting death of cab driver CA: Two men shot, one killed. Police say he was trying to intervene against a group of men assaulting another OR: Shooting was probably drug related, police say IA: One [...]
Finally today, two seperate editorials call out the NRA’s License to Murder law yet again as a crazy, dangerous piece of legislation. -In Eugene, OR, the Register-Guard calls LtM, among other things, “bloodthirsty.” Florida’s groundbreaking “Make My Day” law is catching on since taking effect last October. Fourteen more states have passed similar legislation expanding [...]
Eugene Kane at the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel has written up a column about the tragedy that happened there earlier this week, when a 12-year-old shot her friend while they were playing with a gun. Granted, my suggestions for proper activities for kids are wildly out of touch with the reality of what some 13-year-olds in Milwaukee’s [...]
Great news from Maine, where a U.S. circuit judge has agreed that a domestic abuser can be held accountable for an illegal gun possession charge. Federal prosecutors in Maine can continue to use gun laws to combat domestic violence, the U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled. U.S. Circuit Judge Sandra Lynch, sitting in Boston, ruled [...]
Three weeks ago, Dayna Klein was working at her office at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle when a gunman burst in, wounded Klein and four other people, and killed another woman. Now, she’s asking the same questions we are: how was it that the gunman was able to simply buy his firearms he used [...]
The L.A. Times reports that guns held by criminals aren’t the only threat the LAPD is facing. Tragically, they’re also seeing officers shot by… other officers. The iconic confrontation in American policing, in which brave officers shoot it out with armed thugs, has occurred time and again in the annals of the Los Angeles Police [...]
Want to see firsthand what happens when a country gets flooded with firearms? Look no further than this very space, every single day. IL: 11 wounded in drive-by shooting that police suspect is gang related CA: Police looking for suspect who gunned down a teen in Bakersfield IL: One dead, two injured in shooting that [...]
Just yesterday we were talking about how dangerous concealed weapons are, and now we hear some great news from Columbus, Nebraska: the city has chosen to keep its citizens safe and keep concealed weapons out. The Public Property, Safety and Works Committee voted to keep an ordinance banning concealed weapons within city limits during its [...]
The Times Leader in Northeastern Pennsylvania has “local reaction” on the License to Murder law being proposed there. The NRA wants to change the fundamental definition of self defense, and that’s dangerous, because what they’re changing it to sounds a lot like murder. The passage of the so-called stand-your-ground bill would allow holders of concealed-weapon [...]
Last year, the Freedom States Alliance (of which Gun Guys is a part) held their first annual Come Together to Free America from Gun Violence Online Auction. We announced it in a post here on the site, and they raised tons of money by offering donated items up for auction on eBay. Now, FSA has [...]
Mayor Michael Bloomberg in New York City got a lot of attention earlier this year when he filed a lawsuit against fifteen gun dealers from around the country who he caught on video participating in straw purchases. Already, two of the gun dealers have settled out of the lawsuit, agreeing to record levels of monitoring [...]
Another editorial from the Reading Eagle, this time about the one-gun-a-month law currently being worked on in Pennsylvania (way too slowly for our taste). In a recent address to the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association, Walter M. Phillips Jr., chairman of the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency, described just how easy it is for [...]
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