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The Republican Party in the county where a deadly Arizona shooting rampage took place is drawing criticism for its decision to raffle a gun to raise money for get-out-the-vote efforts. The Pima County Republican Party publicized the raffle in its online newsletter last week, under a headline that read: “Help Pima GOP get out the vote [...] When Wisconsin’s law allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons goes into effect, Shawn Winrich is likely to take advantage of it. But if he does, he’ll do it grudgingly. Winrich, a 34-year-old Madison resident and a member of the gun rights group Wisconsin Carry, likes to carry his Glock 17. He’s done it openly for about [...] A valley mother was arrested after police found pictures and video of her 3-year-old daughter playing with a loaded gun. Investigators say the video of Wendy Fuentes’ daughter showed her pointing a loaded Glock pistol at her mother – with a voice in the background saying “Show me how you point the gun [...] Anti-Second Amendment groups have tried to use the tragic attack against Gabrielle Giffords and others for their own political ends. Since the senseless January 8 attack on Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her innocent constituents, NRA members have joined our fellow Americans in offering thoughts and prayers for the victims, for their families, and [...] As usual, the ghouls at the Brady Center follow hot on the trail of a murder; in this case they are arguing that, had the federal assault-weapons ban not been allowed to expire, the Tucson shooter would have had a hard time buying the magazine he used in the gun with which [...] The bottom-feeders at the New York Times editorial board are exploiting the Tucson tragedy to push for new gun control measures, including a renewal on the Federal Assault Weapons Ban. The measure, which expired in 2004, prohibited the sale of high-capacity clips, among other things. Congress has the “the power to reduce [...] One-day sales of handguns in Arizona jumped 60 percent to 263 on Jan. 10 compared with 164 the corresponding Monday a year ago, the second-biggest increase of any state in the country, according to FBI data. Handgun sales rose 65 percent to 395 in Ohio; 16 percent to 672 in California; 38 [...] Reacting to the assassination attempt on one of their own, two House members on Monday said they will introduce legislation that would ban certain ammunition clips and make it illegal to threaten a federal official, both of which they say contributed to the mass casualties in a shooting rampage in Tuscson [...] In 2001, the shooting victims and Ileto’s wife filed a lawsuit against the manufacturers, marketers, importers, distributors, and sellers of the firearms related to Furrow’s shooting spree. They alleged that those defendants intentionally produced, marketed, distributed, and sold more firearms than the legitimate market demanded, in order to take advantage of re-sales to distributors that [...] |
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