We’ve been perplexed about something here at GunGuys.com. For over three decades the NRA went on a successful campaign to make sure that every state but two – Illinois and Wisconsin – would allow people to carry (with varying restrictions) hidden and loaded handguns in public. These are known as carrying concealed weapons, or CCW [...]
FL: Police are searching for the person who shot a man during an on-campus party at Florida Atlantic University early Wednesday morning. PA: Three Arrested In Monroeville Parking Lot Shooting MD: Mother turns in her son in shooting WA: Man charged with shooting after Dr. Dre book party VA: Chesterfield County police are investigating a [...]
(The following is a news alert from Freedom States Alliance affiliate, Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence. It represents the concerns of the Illinois Council, and we are passing it along out of deference to their work.) Take a close look at the Illinois legislature these days, and you’ll find the reason why several promising gun [...]
TX: A Livingston police officer, Caran Renee Coward, was shot and killed by her husband, Randy Phillip Coward, in a murder-suicide. HI: Domingo Dekito, 39, shot his wife, Della, to death and then turned the gun on himself Saturday. The murder-suicide in an Ewa Beach neighborhood left four children, aged between 8-19, orphaned and the [...]
Has the NRA lost a million members? That is to say that they seem to be missing a million or so people from their claim of 4 million NRA members. Josh Sugarmann, Executive Director, of the Violence Policy Center thinks that the national gun “rights” organization might just be exaggerating their membership, which he believes [...]
A gun dealer in Green Bay Wisconsin who became infamous for selling items to both the Virginia Tech and NIU shooters is currently engaged in a reprehensible publicity stunt. For two weeks, he announced to the media, he will sell guns at “cost†to arm more people “to protect†themselves. You can watch Eric Thompson [...]
In perhaps the most impassioned editorial we’ve read in ages, the Chicago Sun-Times ran yet another strong plea calling for solutions to gun violence after the spate of gun deaths and injuries gripping the city of Chicago. And for the second time this week, the Sun-Times used its own front page as a bullhorn to [...]
IN: 4 arrested in shooting of pregnant bank teller IL: 5 killed in S. Side home by Gunfire TX: Police Arrest 2 In Fatal Shooting Of Hotel Clerk AL: Dispute over woman may have led to shooting death of 49-year-old man, victim’s brother says IL: A 14-year-old boy is accused of shooting and wounding his [...]
Not content with the current gun mayhem in the United States, the NRA is now pushing a bill in Congress that would intrude on states’ rights and allow people from out of state to carry hidden and loaded handguns. The proposed legislation would allow armed Americans to carry concealed weapons across state lines as well [...]
An article from an April 18th New Mexico newspaper once again provides evidence of how valuable laws are that require the reporting of lost and stolen guns, especially for law enforcement officials. A Carlsbad man faces charges of receiving stolen property for his part in the attempted sale of a stolen rifle. Edward Elizondo, 47, [...]
OH: A Holmes County Sheriff’s deputy is recovering at Akron General Medical Center today after shooting himself with his own weapon early Sunday. NJ: A gunman shot a driver stopped at a traffic light and killed a pedestrian early Sunday, and the same man may be responsible for the shooting of a police sergeant, authorities [...]
On the heals of death threats at two Chicago colleges, yet another disturbing gun massacre threat closed over a dozen schools in Illinois on Thursday and will likely stay closed until next Tuesday, April 22nd. Administrators and security officials are taking the threat extremely seriously, especially around the one-year anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre. [...]
On April 14th, 2008, the Illinois Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence (ICPGV) held a public forum at the Northern Illinois University satellite campus in Naperville. For those who do not live in Illinois, the main NIU campus in DeKalb was the site of a tragic college shooting. On February 14th, 2008, a former student, Steven [...]
On the one-year anniversary of the Virginia Tech shootings, Americans need to take stock of what can be done to prevent such horrific acts of violence from happening again. Despite the fact that 32 innocent students and professors lost their lives at the hands of gunman Seung-Hui Cho on April 16, 2007, little has been [...]
FL: St. Pete Shooting Victim In Critical Condition, Police Say VA: Norfolk police investigating fatal shooting in East Ocean View CT: Conn. man charged with shooting pregnant girlfriend SC: 3 people charged in off-campus SC shooting MD: Baltimore police have charged a man in the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old girl in an East Baltimore [...]
This storyline about Sen. Barack Obama’s comments at a San Francisco fundraiser are quite fascinating to us at GunGuys. Here is the transcript of Obama’s remarks: But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there’s not evidence of that in their daily lives. You [...]
We thought the following frontpage story from the April 15th edition of the New York Times was so important to our readers that we have reprinted the full text of the story below: State lawmakers across the country are ramping up efforts to pass new restrictions on guns, following nearly a decade in which state [...]
SC: Classes canceled again over fatal shooting near SC college MS: An employee assistance provider for Lockheed Martin Corp. has settled a lawsuit related to the 2003 workplace shooting that left six people dead at a plant in Meridian MO: Links sought between Mo City shooting, school disturbance MO: Authorities Seek Public’s Help In Mailman’s [...]
(This political cartoon by Chris Britt was published in the Springfield Journal-Register in Illinois). California, Maryland and Virginia are the only states that limit handgun purchases to one per month. And aside from New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and a few other municipalities, there are “virtually” no restrictions on the numbers of handguns a person [...]
An Orlando, Florida TV station, Local 6 News, reported on April 11th, a chilling crime by an armed man with a long history of arrests. What we want to know is how this man was able to obtain his handgun? ORLANDO, Fla. — A 24-year-old man held a gun to the head of a 15-month-old [...]
CBS News in Chicago reported on April 11th that Attorney General Lisa Madigan is pushing for legislation in the Illinois legislature in response to a recent murder-suicide. The state is stepping in to protect women from deadly domestic violence. A recently drafted piece of legislation was spurred by a tragic murder-suicide over the weekend right [...]
RI: Norman Langelier shot his wife, Beatrice, in the head and then set off explosives inside the home. Norman died from multiple blunt force injuries. Police found six propane tanks and about 40 guns in responding to the fire. They also found a note on the property alerting them to the presence of ammunition and [...]
“One Milwaukee” is a relatively new organization that is tackling both gun violence and teen pregnancy. It’s a “citywide initiative to help bridge the gap between the haves and haves-not in Milwaukee.” One Milwaukee released a remarkable PSA called “One Shot,” we strongly encourage you to watch it. In response to the PSA, the Milwaukee [...]
Maybe the “Sunshine State†is in a race with Texas to become the most gun friendly – and “gun dangerous” – state in the nation. (As a side note, we want copyright on “gun dangerous.”) Despite the vigorous objections of the Florida Chamber of Commerce and employers throughout the state, the legislature passed a law [...]
CA: A young woman driver was killed in a car-to-car shooting near a freeway off-ramp early Thursday, the latest in a series of roadway attacks that has left several others dead in Southern California. GA: Argument ends in fatal shooting in Atlanta TX: 2nd arrested in birthday party shooting IL: Chicago Tribune employee killed in [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Violence Policy Center). Third Edition of Violence Policy Center Study “American Roulette” Estimates That Nine Murder-Suicides Occur Each Week in U.S., Vast Majority with Guns [Download and print full report here]. WASHINGTON, DC–At least 554 Americans died in murder-suicides during the first six months [...]
Oh, those law abiding citizens with guns! Unfortunately, many of them are not actually law abiding. Let’s take this example from Ohio, where the gun lobby, a couple of years back, finally succeeded in passing a Carry Concealed Law. We’ll let an article from the April 3rd “Columbus Dispatch†start the ball rolling: Marc Kidby’s [...]
Sometimes we comment on one or two of the daily shootings we post on our GunGuys.com blog. Our feature, “America’s Shooting Gallery,†is a random sampling of a very large number of gun deaths and injuries in our nation that occur every day. On April 9th, one story caused us to think it was time [...]
VA: Portsmouth police investigate overnight shooting NJ: One killed, one injured in Camden shooting LA: The Orleans Parish district attorney’s office last week refused to press forward with attempted murder charges against two teenagers accused of shooting into a crowd of Carnival revelers on Canal Street AZ: Suspect named in Glendale shooting NY: Shooting victim [...]
(We are pleased to bring you this guest commentary that was was originally posted by the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence on April 7th, 2008). Ron Holt has been a police officer in Chicago for 17 years. On May 10th, 2007 his son Blair was shot and killed on a CTA bus while using his [...]
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 [...]
CA: David Whiteakerk, a Yuba City Sheriff’s Sergeant, may face charges after his three-year old son reportedly found his service weapon and shot himself with it. MI: A 3-year-old child, Kyra Thomas, shot herself in the head Sunday on Detroit’s west side after she found a loaded weapon and fired it. Kyra shot herself on [...]
We’ve said before that it sometimes takes a view from overseas to get a little perspective on our love affair with guns. Today we want to call your attention to an article from the UK “Scotsman,†which in an April 7th article explained the Washington D.C. gun case currently before the Supreme Court. After providing [...]
Although GunGuys adamently disagreed with Charlton Heston’s pro-gun views, as word of his passing emerges, we would like to offer our condolences to the Heston family. Heston stepped down as the chief shill for the NRA a few years back after he developed Alzheimer’s, a horrible disease. We have to be honest, however, in saying [...]
IL: Man slays girfriend, then himself, police say MA: Teen charged in fatal Bridgeport shooting NC: Girlfriend Charged In Marietta Man’s Shooting Death TX: 2 dead in birthday party shooting in Fort Worth SC: Man charged with murder in shooting TN: A shooting overnight sent two men to the hospital, officials said. HI: Wai’anae shooting [...]
A new study about domestic violence from the University of Toledo’s college of law released some rather disturbing trends. The study, “Shattered Lives: A Report of Domestic Violence Fatalities In Lucas County Ohio, 2003-2006“, found that deaths from domestic violence and murder-suicides are on the rise. A story about the report was posted on the [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Violence Policy Center). Suspected Rifles May Include ‘Youth’ Rifles for Children Thursday, April 3, 2008 CONTACT: Mandy Wimmer, Violence Policy Center, mwimmer@vpc.org Andy Pelosi, GunFreeKids.org, andy@gunfreekids.org Washington, DC–According to an “Urgent Notice†for gun dealers issued by firearms distributor Sports South, Inc., Brooklyn rifle [...]
FL: A 13-year-old boy, Bryce Williams, was home with six other family members when Terry Joan Wilson-Poulk, 45, who the teen called his stepmom, picked up a handgun from under the chair where the boy was sitting; the .22-caliber semi-automatic pistol went off, striking Williams in the left side of the head. CT: Joseph P. [...]
We’ve written before about legislation in Pennsylvania and elsewhere that would simply require gun owners to act responsibly in protecting their communities and assisting police. In general, lost-and-stolen gun bills require that owners report when a firearm is taken through criminal activity or when it is lost. Such bills provide law enforcement officials with better [...]
We’ll leave it to an article in the April 2, Chicago Sun-Times to start this Gun Guys entry: Three hundred anti-violence activists and Chicago Public Schools students joined local leaders in their fight for gun control this morning following the shooting death of an 18-year-old Simeon Career Academy student over the weekend. “It’s up to [...]
MA: A man is dead after allegedly shooting and injuring a co-worker at a business south of Boston, then killing himself. WA: Spokane Police are investigating an early Wednesday morning shooting in which a woman was shot in the back. MO: Man Charged in Deadly Atchison Shooting NY: Shooting Suspect Kills Self Near Yankee Stadium [...]
A supporter to GunGuys.com emailed us a link to a fun satire that goes right at the heart of the gun lobby’s ridiculous position that “any weapon” is protected by the Second Amendment — whether it’s a .50 caliber sniper rifle, assault rifle, machine gun, a bazooka (which some gun nuts actually believe), or yes, [...]
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 [...]
Following the 22 Chicago Public School students killed this year — 20 from gun violence — Chicago’s teens have had it with state lawmakers who refuse to do anything about the escalating violence in their neighborhoods. Teens are planning a major rally against violence and are calling on state lawmakers to pass stronger gun laws [...]
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