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– be false, misleading or deceptive;
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A ban on a popular starting pistol could damage the nation’s hopes at the 2012 Olympic Games, it was claimed yesterday.UK Athletics firearms licensing manager David Brown said outlawing the Olympic .380 BBM was the equivalent of seizing whistles from football referees.
The former Greater Manchester Police officer said amateur clubs, schools and [...]
During the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles in 1992, the one news report that stuck with me was how the Korean shop owners kept their premises safe from the marauding mobs.
The uprising was the reaction to the acquittal of four white police officers accused in the beating of King after his [...]
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association has filed a joint lawsuit with The Calguns Foundation, the National Rifle Association, the Folsom Shooting Club and two individual truckers, to challenge California’s ban on interstate shipment of handgun ammunition to the state.
The ban, which takes effect February 2011, will criminalize the delivery and [...]
California Assembly Bill 1934, which would create an entirely new crime of openly carrying a handgun throughout most public places in the state has reportedly bypassed the California Senate Appropriations Committee and will be heard on the Senate floor if the author, Lori Saldana (D-78) can find a state senator [...]
The same six bullets sat in the cylinder of the man’s .38 special for 35 years until he fired four of them at someone who crashed through his bedroom window Wednesday.
“I often wondered if I could pick it up and pull the trigger,” the shaken and emotional man said Thursday morning, hours after he gunned [...]
The Supreme Court is poised to forbid cities and states from banning handguns, bringing an anti-climactic end to a political firefight that petered out decades ago.
Court watchers expect the ruling in McDonald v. City of Chicago to have little immediate policy impact outside the Windy City. And the ruling is unlikely to alter the policy [...]
Starting next school year, a new law allows local school boards to offer gun safety education in elementary schools, based on a program from the National Rifle Association.
The law requires that the program use guidelines based on “the rules of the National Rifle Association’s Eddie Eagle Gunsafe Program.”
That program tells children to “STOP! Don’t Touch. [...]
Who are we to criticize a politician’s choice of words? It’s a tough job. You have to be expressive to get your message out.
Is the best way to demonstrate the benefits of gun control by picking up a rifle and offering to shoot a reporter?
Leave that to the PR experts. What do we know?
But that [...]
Today, by a unanimous voice vote, an NRA-backed amendment was added to the House Armed Services Committee’s National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 5136) that will ensure serviceable and once-fired small arms cartridge cases are available for commercial sale.
The Ellsworth amendment, offered by U.S. Rep. Brad Ellsworth (D-Ind.), compels military bases to sell small arms ammunition [...]
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