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How Duke the sun-loving bull helped kill a BB gun ban
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"Nelson's recollections are part of 'Know Your Lawmakers,' a regular feature from GUNS Magazine--50 years ago. Every month, GUNS posts issues from the corresponding month from half a century before on its website, giving us a great window into a past some of us are old enough to remember. A free download of the November 1960 issue is now online." |
Ireland: Uppity Obama left shellacked by angry brigade
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Still, Nikki Haley -- who wants Obama's health-care bill overturned -- is now Governor-Elect of Southern California [South Carolina. -Ed.]; Mary Fallin, who is an evangelist for the right to bear arms, is Governor-Elect of Oklahoma; and Susana Martinez, who is tough on immigration, won the New Mexico governorship on a ticket of being tough on immigration. |
UK: London 2012 Olympics: laser guns dropped as modern pentathlon rules for air pistol
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The switch to laser guns - calibrated to recoil and make a sound like the traditional pellet pistol - were exposed during this year's World Cup Final in Moscow and Youth Olympic Games in Singapore.
Klaus Schormann, the UIPM president, had been a key supporter of the cost-effective new technology, while the improved safety meant new venues such as parks and shopping malls could be used.
Ed.: And apparently, they've already combined the running and shooting events, so now the pentathlon is only four events. :-) |
VA: Keeping guns From criminals
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THERE'S ONE type of traffic that flows too smoothly in our region — guns, en route to criminals.
Forty gun dealers, or just 1 percent of 3,400 licensed sellers in Virginia, were the sources of roughly 60 percent of the guns seized by authorities in criminal investigations in the commonwealth since 1998, according to a Washington Post investigation. |
NH: Here are some tips for sighting in those deer guns
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With firearms deer season right around the corner, many hunters will be sighting in their guns. Since there’s not a lot of time to waste and ammunition is quite expensive, I am providing some tips to get the job done as economically as possible.
As mentioned in previous columns, a 6-inch kill zone is the standard from any shooting position in the field for deer. However, for sighting in, smaller targets help with precision. |
WI: Dane County Helping Hunters Get In Sight
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Hunters are looking forward to deer season and county officials are helping them to straighten their sights. The Dane County Law Enforcement Center is sighting guns this week in Westport. For a cost of $10, hunters can check their accuracy by getting their guns bore sighted and trying them out on the firing range. |
Canada: A great place to live and shoot
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There must be an error in the reporting, Norway can't possibly be the best place in the world to live. Not only does Norway have the highest firearm-ownership per capita in western Europe, Norwegians are allowed (and encouraged) to buy silencers for their firearms and they are allowed to own and use high-capacity magazines. |
MO: Missouri Group Supports Open Gun Carry
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A group of people armed with guns make their way through the plaza. Their weapons were in plain sight. They're making a statement that they have the right to bear arms.
The open carry Missouri group met on the Plaza on Saturday. State law in both Kansas and Missouri allow people to openly carry firearms, with proper registration. |
OR: Springfield man protects neighborhood, hilarity ensues
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If someone who is a “military veteran and a seasoned gun owner” can’t handle a little old ridiculously lethal, semi-automatic weapon, ordinary citizens like myself are in dire risk of losing our rights to keep a 50mm anti-aircraft gun underneath our pillows (For home defense, of course. You never know when a robber might try using a police helicopter!). |
Guns, butter we can have some of both
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We were watching a portion of "13 Days" the other night. There was a scene where amidst the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential advisor Kenny O’Donnell’s son passes him the butter, and it reminded us of the old guns-versus-butter debate. The essence of the argument is that a country can spend money on providing butter for its citizens or guns for the military. Yes, it is simplistic. |
TX: Concealed handguns on campus?
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Over the last couple of years there has been an argument over whether college students should be able to carry concealed guns on campus.
More recently after the University of Texas shooting, the questions have come up again. So should college students should be able to carry their firearms on campus?
Ed.: Also a poll. |
IL: Crime Down in Chicago in October
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Total crime in Chicago was down 3.7 percent in October compared to last year during the same period, and property and violent index offenses similarly declined at 2 percent and 9.8 percent respectively, Chicago Police Superintendent Jody P. Weis announced on Sunday.
In a discussion of preliminary crime data for October at police headquarters Sunday, Weis also noted that a total of 379 murders through the end of October was lower than figures recorded during the same period in previous years, including 2007, which closed with the lowest murder total in the city since 1965. |
WV: Crime guns
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West Virginia contains the U.S. government's only law enforcement unit assigned to track guns used in crimes. But the National Tracing Center in Martinsburg is blocked from working effectively because too many members of Congress are terrified by right-to-bear-arms groups. They imposed obstacles at the request of the gun lobby.
In 2003, conservatives in Congress made it illegal for the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agency to give Americans any information about shady gun dealers who supply deadly weapons to criminals, psychotics or other unfit people. |
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