4 Feb 2012
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Among the slick, million-dollar ads for the likes of Pepsi and Honda during the Super Bowl this Sunday, viewers in New York and Boston will see a far more modest spot. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino will be sitting on a couch touting an issue most politicians avoid like the plague: gun control. The two mayors, whose local teams face off in ...
4 Feb 2012
(Reuters) - The conventional wisdom is that gun sales have increased dramatically since the election of Barack Obama because people fear gun rights will be curtailed. But as it turns out, there are no completely accurate measures of either gun purchases or gun ownership. The gun industry's trade group, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), tracks gun sales by looking at the number of ...
3 Feb 2012
Utah law has protections that allow firearms to be carried openly in many public places, but gun rights advocates in the Legislature want to make that crystal clear to police, saying there have been i
3 Feb 2012
Gun bills sail through committee By David Montero The Salt Lake Tribune Published Feb 3, 2012 05:00PM MDT Two gun bills — one to make it easier for police to purchase firearms as private citizens and one to allow hunters to have concealed weapons with short barrels — passed unanimously out of a House committee Friday. Rep. Brad Galvez, R-West Haven, proposed HB99, which would allow law ...
3 Feb 2012
DSG Discount Gun Sales removed a webpage selling a pink handgun with they call the "Hope Edition"
3 Feb 2012
A Bohemia gun store owner accused of trafficking in illegal...
3 Feb 2012
Prosecutors say a Long Island gun store owner accused of trafficking in firearms stored handguns and about 300 rifles and shotguns in his unlocked garage.
2 Feb 2012
Kim Dotcom says the two firearms found during the police raid on his Auckland mansion last month were there to protect his family in case they were threatened.
2 Feb 2012
Gustavo Petro was imprisoned as a rebel in the 1980s on a weapons conviction. As Bogota's new mayor, he wants to get firearms off the streets of this city where the conspicuous display of guns has long been the norm.
2 Feb 2012
FOUR YEARS AGO, City Council passed a law requiring gun owners whose firearms were lost or stolen to report the missing weapons to police within 24 hours or face fines of up to $2,000 and 90 days in jail.