Headline Archives for August 18, 2005

Gun Guys News

• NY: "You Don't Put a Gun Shop-- Let Somebody Sell Guns-- In A Residential Area.  My God, Use Your Head!" (8.18)
• More Voices Speak Out Against NC's Domestic Violence Vigilante Law.  Empowering Victims of Domestic Violence is a Great Idea.  Giving Them Guns Is Not.  (8.18)
• NY: Project Childsafe Rolls On (8.18)
• MTV Britain To Host Event Discussing Intersection of Hip Hop and Gun Culture. (8.18)
• News Flash: Kids Fascinated With Shooting.  New Program Plans to Get More Shotguns In Kids' Hands ASAP (8.18)
• Suicide is the Second Leading Cause of Death For Those Under 25 in Maine.  A Sobering Story About How Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wounds Affect Communities (8.18)
• California Joins Wisconsin and Other States Who Have Banned Internet Hunting-- Remotely Controlling a Gun With a Computer (8.18)
• KS: Police Say They Have To Start Gang-Prevention Education Earlier.  Earlier Than Sixth Grade, That Is.  (8.18)
• MS: Letter To Editor Claims Stolen Guns Are Not a "Threat To Society."  Right, And if I Just Keep Saying That It Will Come True, It Will Come True, It Will Come True.  (8.18)
• TX: Minutemen Civilian Border Watchers Set Up Camp in West Texas (8.18)

America's Shooting Gallery

• NY: 18 Month Old Finds Loaded Gun Father Put In Her Bedroom.  Father Claims He Found It In a Field, Left It There By Accident.  (8.18)
• MA: Cowboy Fires Rifle To Defend His Land.  "Land," In This Case, Means a Van Down By the River! (8.18)
• MI: 18 Year Old Busted For Stealing Guns From Friend's House While Friend Was In Jail (8.18)
• MI: Man Shoots Gun in Street, Then Hides Under a Car When Police Show Up (8.18)
• MS: Preschooler Brings Grandmother's Loaded Gun To School.  Grandmother Is An Employee of the Local School District, What The NRA Might Call a "Responsible Gun Owner" (8.18)
• TX: Teen Steals 39 Weapons From Gun Store, But Says He's Really Sorry.  Oh, Well That's OK Then. (8.18)
• MA: ATF Raids Home, Finds Drugs, Guns, Two Alligators and a Crocodile.  At Least Their Kids Didn't Bring the Alligator to School. (8.18)
• MI: Finally, the State Acts To Take Kids Away From Mom Who Knew Loaded and Cocked Shotgun Was In Her Home With Son, 6, and Daughter, 4 (8.18)
• AL: Six Years For Killing Wife in Gun "Accident."  (8.18)
• NY: Husband and Wife Charged In Driveby Shooting.  How Romantic! (8.18)