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Armor-Piercing 5.7mm Pistol Used at Fort Hood Originally Designed for Military Only

Josh Sugarmann | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Firearms and Explosives, 5.7mm, "Sporting Purposes" Test, FN Herstal, Barack Obama, Bureau of Alcohol, Fort Hood Rampage, National Rifle Association, Nidal Malik Hasan Fort Hood, Tobacco, Gun Industry, Gun Lobby, Mexico Drug Wars, Armor-Piercing Ammunition, FN Five-seveN, Fort Hood Shootings, Atf, ps90, Politics News
Josh Sugarmann

How a pistol originally designed as a military-only handgun came to be sold on the U.S. civilian market is a stark example of the increasing militarization of the U.S. civilian gun market.

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Shortage Of Ammunition: Demand Is Up Despite Drop In Crime Rate

washingtonpost.com | David A. Fahrenthold and Fredrick Kunkle | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Shortage of Ammunition, Ammunition, Guns and Ammunition, Ammo Shortage, Gun Control, Gun Lobby, Bullets, Nra, America Ammunition, Ammunition Supply, Guns, Politics News

In a year of job losses, foreclosures and bag lunches, Americans have spent record-breaking amounts of money on guns and ammunition. The most obvious ...

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Gunmaker Gaston Glock: Shell Companies, Nazis, and Murder

Josh Sugarmann | Posted 11.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Business Week, Businessweek, Gun Manufacturers, Campaign Finance, Glock, Gaston Glock, Gunmakers, Election Law, Gun Industry, Gun Lobby, Nazi, Richard Feldman, Austrian Politics, Jorg Haider, Business News
Josh Sugarmann

Handgun manufacturer Glock finds itself and its one-time employees mired in a web of alleged criminal activity that includes money skimming, illegal campaign contributions, and even murder.

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Pittsburgh Attack: Sixth Mass Shooting by a Concealed Handgun Licensee in Just Over Two Years

Josh Sugarmann | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: National Rifle Association, Concealed Handgun Permit, Ccw, Violence Policy Center, George Sodini, George Sodini Pittsburgh, Gun Lobby, Mass Shooting, LA Fitness, Concealed Handgun, Nra, Concealed Carry Permit, Concealed Carry, Politics News
Josh Sugarmann

Concealed handgun permit holders want what they want. Period. And there's no number of mass shootings, dead policeman, or innocent victims that will ever change their minds.

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Alert: Redneck Nation's Making a Power Play

Toby Barlow | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gun Control, John Thune, Yes We Can, Capitol Hill, Concealed Weapons Permits, Concealed Carry, Gun Lobby, Thune Amendment, Wyoming, New York, Politics News
Toby Barlow

So if they won't let you carry a gun in New York but they will in Wyoming, you just go get yourself a gun license in Wyoming, pick up your weapon, conceal it, and head on back to uppity ol' New York.

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Only a 'Madman' Would Oppose All Gun Control, Says Gun World Editor

Josh Sugarmann | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gun World, Mel Tappan, Assault Rifle, Jim Zumbo, Urban Rifle, Assault Weapons, Jan Libourel, Gun Control, Gun Lobby, Ar-15, Politics News
Josh Sugarmann

In a world viewed by many of his readers in black and white, Jan Libourel, the editor of Gun World magazine, has staked out a little island of gray. It remains to be seen whether he's exiled to it.

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Sahil Kapur

Battle Erupts Over Gun Rights For Terror Suspects

HuffingtonPost.com | Sahil Kapur | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Guns Terrorists, Gun Rights Terror Suspects, Gun Lobby, Brady Center, Gun Control, Gun Rights, Frank Lautenberg, Nra, Peter Hamm, Ccrkba, Politics News

In defense of the right to bear arms, the National Rifle Association and other gun rights groups seem to have taken up the cause of those on the FBI's...

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The First 100 Days and Guns

Josh Sugarmann | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tiahrt Amendment, Assault Weapons Ban, Mexico, Gun Control, Assault Weapons, Nra, Eric Holder, National Rifle Association, Violence Policy Center, Tobacco, 100 Days, Gun Lobby, Obama Adminstration, Atf, Jimmy Carter, Import Ban, First Hundred Days, Obama 100 Days, Politics News
Josh Sugarmann

The recent incidents of gun violence are just discrete examples of the estimated 84 Americans who die on average each day in our nation from guns. Yet in the White House, the response remains muted.

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Ammo, Gun Accessory Shortages Nationwide

McClatchy | Anna M. Tinsley | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama and Guns, Gun Laws, Second Ammendment, Ammos, US Gun Lobby, Gun Lobby, Guns, Nra, Politics News

Most days are like Christmas for Glen Furtardo. When he opens boxes sent to the Winchester Gallery gun store in east Fort Worth, he finds out what ...

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Trigger-Happy in America

Cindy Handler | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mental Illness, Gun Violence, Binghamton Shooting, North Carolina Shooting, Shootings, Loner, Alabama Shooting, Conceal and Carry Laws, Economic Crisis, Why People Kill, Gun Control, Gun Lobby, Nra, Suicide by Cop, Politics News
Cindy Handler

I start wonder why the NRA hasn't launched a lucrative travel channel show. They could start each segment with "Today's shooting comes to you from..." filling in any given American locale.

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Don't Mess With Texas... Especially Its New Gun Law

Jackson Williams | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gun Laws, Texas, Gun Lobby, Nra, Guns, Dick Cheney, Dallas Morning News, Fort Worth-Texas, Politics News
Jackson Williams

A law the Texas Rifle Association wants the state legislature to pass is almost in the bag: the right to bring a gun to work!

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NRA Refuses To Comment On Gun Lobby Spy

AP | MARYCLAIRE DALE | Posted 09.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gun Lobby, Gun Lobby Spy, Mary McFate, Mary Lou Sapone, Nra, Nra Gun Lobby Spy, Politics News

PHILADELPHIA — A gun-control activist who championed the cause for more than a decade and served on the boards of two anti-violence groups is su...

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DC Ban on Semiauto Handguns Stands

Josh Sugarmann | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Revolver, Supreme Court Second Amendent, Supreme Court Justices, 2nd Amendment, Semiauto, District of Columbia, Pistol, Antonin Scalia, Gun Control, Washington DC, Nra, Dc, Gun Violence, Second Amendment, Violence Policy Center, Handgun Ban, Gun Industry, Gun Lobby, Supreme Court Gun, Politics News
Josh Sugarmann

In its ruling, the Court brushed away our nation's history of mass shootings, assassinations, and unparalleled gun violence and accepted an abstract academic argument with dangerous real-world results.

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