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La Familia Cartel Targeted, Police Arrest More Than 300 Across U.S.

AP | ELLIOT SPAGAT and SEAN MURPHY | Posted 10.23.2009 | World

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OKLAHOMA CITY — In the largest single strike at Mexican drug operations in the U.S., authorities arrested more than 300 people in a sting that d...

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FBI, ATF Constantly Feuding Over Bomb Investigations: Report

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 11.15.2009 | Home

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WASHINGTON — Agents of the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives are feuding over bomb investigations – racing ...

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Officials See Rise In Militia Groups Across US

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Militia groups with gripes against the government are regrouping across the country and could grow rapidly, according to an organiz...

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20,000 American Guns Trafficked to Mexican Criminals

Paul Helmke | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Homeland Security, Eliot Engel, Assault Weapons, Gun Trafficking, Gun Control, Mexico, Joe Biden, Guns, Illegal Guns, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, Rahm Emanuel, Janet Napolitano, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Gao, Mexico Drug Wars, Politics News
Paul Helmke

With 20,000 illegal guns from America recovered at crime scenes in Mexico over the last five years, there is no excuse for Congress and the President not to take steps now to close the gun show loophole.

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More Feds To Combat Border Violence: Source

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN and DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 04.17.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration plans to send reinforcements to the Southwest border to help contain the rampant violence of the Mexican d...

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Blowing Things Up: In Praise of a Pyrotechnical Education

Dan Dubno | Posted 04.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Competitiveness, Research, Homeland Security, Science, Barack Obama, Explosion, Department of Homeland Security, Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, Education, Office of Naval Research, Dan Dubno, Obama Budget, Dean Kamen, Robotics, FIRST Robotics National Championship, Bombing, Darpa, China, Business News
Dan Dubno

I'm not suggesting we raise a nation of pyromaniacs. But youthful experimentation is a prerequisite to innovation, to giving kids "license to think outside the box."

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A New Day For Gun Violence Prevention

Paul Helmke | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Gun Show Loophole, George Bush, Democratic Congress, Congress, Assault Weapons, National Rifle Association, Chris Cox, Antonin Scalia, President Obama, George W. Bush, Brady Law, Gun Control, Virginia Tech, Heller Decision, Illegal Guns, Eric Holder, Wayne LaPierre, Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, Dc v Heller, Hilda Solis, District of Columbia v. Heller, Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel, Janet Napolitano, Hillary Clinton, Obama Transition, Virginia Tech Massacre, Oregon, Politics News
Paul Helmke

Last year at this time, I said that America was turning a corner on the gun issue, and the watershed events of 2008 confirmed that prediction. The pa...

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ATF Under Bush Cannot Account For Many Missing Weapons, Laptops

Reuters | Posted 10.18.2008 | Home

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WASHINGTON - The Justice Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives had 76 weapons and 418 laptop computers lost, stolen or go m...

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5 Questions On Common Sense Gun Laws For Gov. Sarah Palin

Paul Helmke | Posted 10.04.2008 | Home

Read More: Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, Senator McCain, National Rifle Association, Assault Weapons, 2008 Presidential Race, Sarah Palin, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Election 2008, Nra, 2008 Election, Illegal Guns, John McCain, Guns, Nra Spygate, Home News
Paul Helmke

The nation's media have been feverishly pursuing stories about Alaska's Governor, Sarah Palin. Among other topics, they've been asking about her child...

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