More...
 

Guns

Gilbert Arenas, Javaris Crittenton Drew Guns On Each Other Over Gambling Debt: Report

AP | Posted 01.01.2010 | Sports

Read More: Crittenton Pulls Gun, Gambling Debt, Christmas Eve, Washington Wizards Guns, Javaris Crittenton Gun, Arenas Crittenton Guns, Gun Locker Room, Basketball, Arenas Pulls Gun, Guns, Nba, Gilbert Arenas Gun, Sports News

NEW YORK — Washington Wizards teammates Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton drew guns on each other during a Christmas Eve locker room argumen...

Read Whole Story

Disney Grandson Pleads Not guilty To Drug Charges

AP | Posted 12.31.2009 | Los Angeles

Read More: Walt Disney, Patrick Disney, Disney, Narcotics, Guns, Patrick Disney Miller, Los Angeles News

LOS ANGELES — The grandson of Walt Disney has pleaded not guilty to drug and gun charges in Los Angeles. Patrick Disney Miller was being held i...

Read Whole Story

Man Unloads 58 Guns At Compton Weapons Exchange

latimes.com | Richard Winton | Posted 12.30.2009 | Los Angeles

Read More: Gifts for Guns, Gun Control, Illegal Guns, Guns, Compton, Los Angeles News

Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies expected heavy business Tuesday during its annual "gifts for guns" program in Compton. And sure enough, scores ...

Read Whole Story

Oprah Book Club Author Ewem Akpan's New Fiction

The New Yorker | Ewem Akpan | Posted 12.28.2009 | Books

Read More: Bestsellers, Oprah Book Club, Oprah Winfrey, Oprah, Baptizing the Gun, Violence, Nigeria, Oprah Pick, Guns, Books News

A female passenger starts to scream in the molue, or you-beat-me-I-beat-you bus, in front of my battered red Volkswagen Beetle, introducing another ri...

Read Whole Story

NRA Bosses -- But Not Members -- Defend Policies That Help Arm Suspected Terrorists

Paul Helmke | Posted 12.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, National Rifle Association, Fort Hood, Justice Robert Jackson, Rahm Emanuel, Homeland Security, Terrorism, Janet Napolitano, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Gun Control, Frank Luntz, Constitution, Nra, Barack Obama, Guns, Illegal Guns, Politics News
Paul Helmke

If the National Rifle Association's leaders want to help suspected terrorists get easy access to guns, bucking the wishes of their own membership, they should come out and say so.

Read Post

Gun Lobbyists Against 'Wellness And Health'

Paul Helmke | Posted 12.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gun Violence, Senate, Congress, John Ensign, Rahm Emanuel, Nancy Pelosi, Health Care Reform, Gun Control, Harry Reid, Health Care, Guns, Barack Obama, Politics News
Paul Helmke

While our massive health care reform package was hammered out in the back offices of the Capitol, Senators still found time to bend over backwards for the Gun Owners of America.

Read Post

Health Care Costs and Gun Violence

John Rosenthal | Posted 12.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gun Control, Health Care, Guns, Politics News
John Rosenthal

Congress could save billions of dollars in preventable health care costs by reducing gun violence simply by requiring criminal background checks for all gun sales in the US.

Read Post

Times Square Shooting Gun Tracked To Virginia

AP | COLLEEN LONG | Posted 12.13.2009 | New York

Read More: Virginia, Ray Martinez, Ready, Michael Bloomberg, Times Square Gun, Raymond Martinez, Times Square Shooting, Guns, New York News

NEW YORK — A machine pistol used by a street hustler and aspiring rapper shot dead in a Times Square gunfight was purchased from a Virginia gun ...

Read Whole Story

NRA Quietly Winning Battles For Looser Gun Laws

AP | ERIK SCHELZIG | Posted 12.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Concealed Weapons Permit, Crimes, Firearms, Violence, Gun Control, Weapons, Nra, Concealed Weapons, Guns, State Rights, Self-Defense, Gun Laws, Brady Bill, Homicide, Convictions, Gun Rights, National Rifle Associaiton, Gun Safety, Public Safety, Politics News

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — It's been the year of the gun in Tennessee. In a flurry of legislative action, handgun owners won the right to take their wea...

Read Whole Story

NRA Members For Reasonable Gun Restrictions

Paul Helmke | Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gun Show Loophole, Congress, Terrorism, Homeland Security, Gun Control, Nra, Illegal Guns, Guns, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Gun Violence, National Rifle Association, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Rahm Emanuel, Janet Napolitano, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Frank Luntz, Politics News
Paul Helmke

it is time for Congress to start listening to the American people -- including NRA members and gun owners -- instead of responding to the dictates of NRA bosses.

Read Post

Opti-Sight: New Device Makes Guns More Accurate

LiveScience | Posted 12.11.2009 | Technology

Read More: Optisight Gun, Pistol, Opti-Sight Gun, Optisight, Pistol Aiming, Gun Accuracy, Opti Sight, Opti-Sight, Opti Sight Gun, Guns, Technology News

A new technology may make it easier for gun owners to improve their marksmanship. Opti-sight, a new pistol-aiming device, was developed to reduce t...

Read Whole Story

Gaps in Protection for Us and the President

Paul Helmke | Posted 12.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Terrorist Watch List, Gun Violence, Health Care Town Halls, Fort Hood, National Security, Rahm Emanuel, Terrorism, Janet Napolitano, Secret Service, Gun Control, Oath Keepers, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Guns, Illegal Guns, Fort Hood Shootings, Tareq and Michaele Salahi, Nancy Pelosi, Politics News
Paul Helmke

We want security not only for the president and our top officials, but also for ourselves and our families. Yet as a nation we make it very easy for dangerous people to arm themselves.

Read Post

Guns n' Goldman

Tom Dunkel | Posted 12.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Guns, Politics News
Tom Dunkel

With health care legislation on the road to nowhere, President Obama might be better off focusing his attention on the possibility of a nuclear-powered Goldman Sachs.

Read Post

Bury This Book! Amazon.com and the Gun Issue

Dennis A. Henigan | Posted 12.03.2009 | Books

Read More: Gun Violence, Amazon.com, Book Publishing, National Rifle Association, Huffpost Books, Books, Book Reviews, Gun Control, Nra, Guns, Books News
Dennis A. Henigan

It seems apparent that, at least as to Lethal Logic, the Amazon customer views function more as a forum for the gun control debate than a forum for a debate about the book.

Read Post

Gun Sales Ring In Brooklyn Broken Up

nytimes.com | KAREEM FAHIM | Posted 11.24.2009 | New York

Read More: Brooklyn Gun Sales Ring Bust, Gun Sales, Brooklyn New York, Crime, Gun Sales Ring Brooklyn, Brooklyn, Illegal Guns, Guns, New York News

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...

Read Whole Story

Saipan Shooting: Gunman Opens Fire On Pacific Island; 5 Dead

AP | GEMMA CASAS | Posted 11.21.2009 | World

Read More: Gun Violence, Saipan, Shootings, Saipan Shootings, Gun Control, Guns, Saipan Gunman, World News

SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands — After going on a shooting rampage that left a trail of victims on the Pacific resort island of Saipan, the gu...

Read Whole Story

Virginia Tech Survivor With Hidden Camera Films Dangerous Gun Sales at Gun Shows

Paul Helmke | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Columbine, Gun Show Loophole, National Rifle Association, Congress, Gun Shows, Nancy Pelosi, Gun Control, Virginia Tech Massacre, Virginia Tech, Nra, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Mexico Drug Wars, Guns, Politics News
Paul Helmke

At gun shows in 43 states, felons, gangsters, wife-beaters, and the dangerously mentally ill can buy assault weapons, semi-automatic pistols and other firearms with no questions asked.

Read Post

Good People, Bad People and the Fort Hood Shootings

Dennis A. Henigan | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gun Violence, Fort Hood, National Rifle Association, Concealed Carry, President Obama, Gun Control, Nidal Malik Hasan, Nra, Guns, Fort Hood Shootings, Politics News
Dennis A. Henigan

In 1996, after completing his official "NRA Personal Protection Course," Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was issued a permit in Virginia to carry a concealed weapon.

Read Post

Boy Kills Bear That Wouldn't Leave Family's Front Porch

AP | Posted 11.15.2009 | Home

Read More: Protection, Driggs Idaho, Hunting, Black Bear, Boy, Idaho, Wyoming, Guns, Boy Shoots Bear on Porch, Wildlife, Home News

DRIGGS, Idaho — An 11-year-old Idaho boy fatally shot a black bear on his family's front porch after he said it wouldn't leave. The boy was at ...

Read Whole Story

Is Ft. Hood Like Columbine? By Columbine's Dave Cullen

Newsweek | Dave Cullen | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home

Read More: Dylan Klebold, Islam, Ft. Hood, Columbine Book, Crime, Eric Harris, Ethnicity, Bullying, Terrorism, Fort Hood, Fort Hood Victims, 9/11, Virginia Tech, Guns, Colorado, Texas, Columbine, Religion, Soldiers, Military, Fort Hood Analysis, Psychiatrist, US Soldiers, Nidal Hasan, Ptsd, Home News

My brain is about to bust with all the apparent parallels to Columbine, Virginia Tech and 9/11, and the startling differences to each as well. But the...

Read Whole Story

It's the Guns, Stupid: Why Handguns Remain One of the Biggest Threats To Homeland Security

Louis Klarevas | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Homegrown Terrorists, Handguns, Homeland Security, Terrorism, Guns, Extremism, Politics News
Louis Klarevas

I no longer wonder "if" a Mumbai-style attack will occur in the U.S. Absent the implementation of serious gun control measures, I now ask "when"?

Read Post

Guns Around The World (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Posted 11.06.2009 | World

Read More: Murder, Gun Laws, Crime, Gun Law Around the World, Handgun-Murders, UK Gun Law, Slideshow, Gun Law, Guns, Illegal Guns, Global Gun Laws, World News

America leads the developed world for murders committed using firearms, with a rate of 0.0279271 per 1,000 people, according to UN reports from 2000. ...

Read Whole Story

Primary Image on Drudge Report While Soldiers Were Being Slaughtered at Fort Hood...

Martin Lewis | Posted 11.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Military Mentality, Mark Levin, Gun Culture, Fort Hood, Massacre, Seriously Bald Radio Hosts Who Try to Hide It Under Baseball Hats, John Ratzenberger, John Boehner, Military Fatigue, Assault Weapons, Gun Mentality, Sewage Workers, Matt Drudge, Military Training, Candidates With Sewer Experience, Military Fatigues, Jon Voight, Guns, Jesse Kelly, M16 Rifle, Michele Bachmann, Slaughter, Nidal Malik Hasan, Discharged Marines, Drudge Report, Washed-Up Actors, Fort Hood Shootings, Send a Warrior to Congress, Fake-Tan, Spray-on Tan, Fake Tan Politicians, Media News
Martin Lewis

With unwitting but impeccable timing, the sole banner advertisement prominently emblazoned on Drudge Thursday was the image of a discharged member of the military brandishing his M16 rifle.

Read Post

What is the "Message" Behind Increased Gun Sales?

Josh Horwitz | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gun Violence, Second Amendment, Insurrectionism, Insurrection, William Kostric, Gun Control, Founding Fathers, Constitution, Town Hall Meetings, Guns, Politics News
Josh Horwitz

Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the National Rifle Association, thinks Americans are stockpiling handguns, assault weapons and ammunition because they are going to be "attacked by politicians"?

Read Post

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 ...

Read Whole Story