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Indiana Gun Sale Surge? Some Stores Running Out Of Ammo

Posted 04.10.2012

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Gun demand in Indiana is reportedly so high that some stores are running out of ammunition or firearms altogether. According to the FBI, the number...

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The Truth About Gun Sales

Josh Horwitz | Posted 03.10.2012

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By purposely hiding actual data about gun sales in America, the gun lobby is attempting to reinforce its oversize reputation and make the industry look like a more politically potent force than it actually is.

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Background Checks On Gun Buyers Shoot Up In 2011: FBI Stats

Reuters | Posted 03.05.2012

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By James Kelleher CHICAGO, Jan 4 (Reuters) - The FBI performed a record number of instant background checks on would-be firearm buyers...

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Guns: Helping Crime or Hurting Crime Prevention?

Paul Heroux | Posted 10.12.2011

On Monday night last week, when the U.S. House Of Representatives voted to raise the debt ceiling, for a moment, Democrats and Republicans wholehearte...

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247 People On Terror Watch List Bought Guns In U.S. Last Year

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 06.28.2011

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WASHINGTON — More than 200 people suspected of ties to terrorism bought guns in the U.S. last year legally, FBI figures show. The 247 people wh...

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Gun Conglomerate Pulls IPO, Latest Bad News for Firearms Industry

Josh Sugarmann | Posted 06.04.2011

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Despite the gun industry's essentially unchallenged chest thumping that things are going great for firearm manufacturers, a giant dose of reality reared its ugly head when Freedom Group canceled a long-delayed IPO.

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$40 Billion In Private Arms Sales Approved By U.S. in 2009

AP | STEPHEN BRAUN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. government approved $40 billion in worldwide private arms sales in 2009, including more than $7 billion to Mideast and North Af...

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NRA's LaPierre Can't Even Support NRA's Own Position on Background Checks

Josh Sugarmann | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the red-meat fulmination that is Wayne LaPierre's yearly appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference (commonly known as CPAC, held h...

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Mayor: Undercover Gun Probe Found Illegal Gun Sales In Arizona

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg says undercover investigators working for New York City were illegally allowed to buy semi-automatic pistols at an...

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If We All Had Guns, We'd All Be Safer

B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gun advocates claim that we'd be safer if more people had guns. I agree. In order to assure a safer more crime-free society, teachers should be armed. Students should be armed. Convenience store clerks...

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Sales In Glock Pistols Up After Arizona Shootings

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hey, everyone. Not to unnerve you, but apparently, days after a madman went on a murdery rampage with a Glock in Arizona, Arizonans are heading to gun stores in droves to purchase the very same weapon used by Jared Lee Loughner. It's as good an example as anything to demonstrate that there really is no such thing as bad publicity, only an implacable, gnawing cynicism that permeates our existence and sends us, sobbing, into a fetal position.

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NRA Campaigns to Protect Corrupt Gun Dealers

Paul Helmke | Posted 05.25.2011

If two NRA-backed bills get hearings before Congress and become law, they would devastate the ATF's ability to protect our communities and families from gun dealers who sell guns into the illegal market.

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Obama Gun Boom Comes to an Official End

Josh Sugarmann | Posted 05.25.2011

A "family" of gun companies collectively known as The Freedom Group has just filed new documents with the SEC, in anticipation of its IPO.

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Colorado Gun Sales Skyrocket In 2009

Glenwood Springs Post Independent | John Gardner | Posted 05.25.2011

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GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado -- Colorado residents are exercising their Second Amendment rights in record numbers. Gun sales surged to a new high bef...

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Gun Sales Ring In Brooklyn Broken Up

nytimes.com | KAREEM FAHIM | Posted 05.25.2011

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At City Hall, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and other officials announced they had broken up an illegal gun-sales operation in Brooklyn, while in Times S...

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No Limits On Gun Purchases: House

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- An effort to limit the number of guns people can buy has failed again in the Illinois House. The measure would have capped ...

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Did Gun Sales Really Spike Because of the Election? Not Really, it Turns Out.

Joshuah Bearman | Posted 05.25.2011

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I thought all those stories about the bang up business at gun stores after Obama's win sounded hokey. And they are.

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Gun Sales Soar On Obama Victory

NY Times | KIRK JOHNSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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DENVER -- Sales of handguns, rifles and ammunition have surged in the last week, according to gun store owners around the nation who describe a wave o...

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Gun Sales Thriving, Despite Economy

Washington Post | Fredrick Kunkle | Posted 05.25.2011

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Americans have cut back on buying cars, furniture and clothes in a tough economy, but there's one consumer item that's still enjoying healthy sales: g...

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