Guns
Gang steals 50 guns during break-in
According to the Springfield, Illinois, State Journal Register five people have been arrested in regards to a break-in at a local gun store where at least fifty guns were stolen. Authorities allege that Burrage, Lasalle and possibly others kicked in the door to the business, in a residential neighborhood on the city’s north end, around […]
Scott Goodwin-Bey and gun control
KY3 tells the story of 49-year-old Scott Goodwin-Bey in Springfield, Missouri. He has a fairly long criminal record; Goodwin-Bey was convicted in 1992 in St. Louis of possession of crack cocaine, illegally carrying a concealed weapon, and resisting arrest. He was convicted in federal court in 1997 for conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine. He was […]
Cetin tried to buy another gun minutes before Mall shooting
The Seattle Times reports that Turkish-born Arcan Cetin who killed five people with .22 caliber rifle in the Cascade Mall in Burlington, Washington, had gone to a gun shop minutes before his shooting rampage in an attempt to buy a .45 caliber handgun. Cetin, she said, came through the door and asked her “If we […]
Americans who stockpile guns
Our friends at Maxon Shooters Supply and Indoor Range send us a link to the photo at Atlantic discussing the new poll that claims only three percent of Americans own the 300 million guns in the country. Here’s a better picture of the photo that they use; I guess Atlantic couldn’t find a picture of […]
“Medical” Marijuana Card? “No guns for you!”
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has once again made an . . . interesting ruling. This time it concerns gun ownership. Predictably, the 9th Circuit came down on the side of restricting gun ownership. But this case has a few twists. And I’ll be damned if I don’t think the 9th Circuit might actually […]
Switzerland doesn’t like EU’s scary black rifle ban
Reuters reports that the European Union plans to restrict ownership of scary black rifles among it’s members in order to keep those guns out of the hands of terrorists, but the Swiss aren’t fond of the idea because it will restrict ownership among their own veterans; [T]he initial proposal provoked an outcry in Switzerland because […]
Minneapolis gun buy back sputters
A number of readers sent us links to the story of the gun buy back in Minneapolis last weekend. The city allocated $25,000 for the event and they went through it within a couple of minutes according to witnesses. I showed up at the E. 38th st. fire station at 12:30. Incompetence is the word […]
Gun control casualties
The Chicago Tribune noticed that August 2016 is the deadliest month for Chicagoans in almost two decades with more than 2800 gunshot victims of whom 487 were killed. It seems to be a national trend; Chicago has a lower homicide rate than many other U.S. cities that are smaller in population. But this year, the […]
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