First 100 days: Assault weapons ban

- Campaigning before a church congregation on Chicago’s South Side one Sunday in July 2007, Barack Obama said an epidemic of big city violence was “sickening the soul of this nation.”

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Idaho Senators Block Bush's ATF Pick

Idaho's senators are blocking President Bush's nominee to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, saying the agency has become overly aggressive in enforcing gun laws.

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That fight for jurisdiction was a "low point" for federal agents in Seattle, part of a long-simmering national rivalry which has festered since Congress moved the ATF from the Treasury Department to the Department of Justice after Sept.

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NASHVILLE -- The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has told Tennessee gun dealers to disregard a state statute that exempts firearms made and sold inside Tennessee from federal gun laws and registration.

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The War Down Below - Is The 2nd Amendment Arming Mexican Traffickers?

Estimates of around 2,000 guns a day, a lot of weapons by any standard, have been made by several different sources in both the US and Mexican governments.

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In the video, the clerk is told that the man who wants to buy the gun is a convicted felon, making the sale of a firearm illegal. It is illegal for convicted felons to own guns anywhere in the US.

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A line was drawn in the sand last week - a response by the Federal Government to the State of Tennessee and their assertion of sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution.

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Detectives, acting on information about drugs and explosives in a Lakeland area home brought in their SWAT team and combined forces with the Federal ATF agents and Florida State Fire Marshals agents to execute a search warrant of the home.

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Tom Metzger a leader of a White Supremacist was served with a search warrant by the ATF. The search was not part of a particular case.

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excerpt: ""Back in 2004, someone sent a letter bomb to Don Logan, the director of the Office of Diversity and Dialogue in Scottsdale, Ariz. Logan suffered serious burns on his hands and arms, and two other people suffered minor injuries.

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" We have decided to let just about anyone have a gun. And we allow a system to flourish in which even those who are supposed to be barred from having weapons—James W.

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A Putnam County corrections officer has been charged with possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and turned over to the U.S. Marshals Service, authorities said.

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Close the Gun Show Loophole

The NRA's annual convention just concluded in Phoenix. Sixty thousand people attended. Politicians of both parties came to genuflect before the powerful gun-ownership lobby.

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A sinister bill working its way through the House may eventually serve as a companion piece to the Department of Homeland Security's "Rightwing Extremist" report that labels veterans and advocates of the Second Amendment as dangerous terrorists — H.R.

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A woman was arrested guarding an arsenal that included an anti-aircraft machine gun—the first weapon of its kind seized in Mexico, police said Tuesday.

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In an op-ed for the Houston Chronicle, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales called on Friday for "fundamental institutional reforms" in a system which is "rife with manipulation and corruption" and could benefit by "an open accusatorial system of oral trials."

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Federal investigators in Alaska say an accelerant was poured around the exterior of Gov. Sarah Palin's home church before it was heavily damaged by a fire.

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SPRINGFIELD -- The fire that destroyed a new church being built for a predominantly black congregation was intentionally set, law enforcement officials said today.

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The ATF says it has broken up a plot to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 102 black people in a Tennessee murder spree.

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ATF breaks up Plot by SKIN HEADS to kill Obama

I've been saying now for weeks that Palin is stirring up the right wing nut jobs to a point were someone would be willing to try and kill Senator Obama.

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Federal agents have broken up a plot to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 102 black people in a Tennessee murder spree, the ATF said Monday.

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WASHINGTON — The ATF says it has broken up a plot to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 102 black people in a Tennessee murder spree.

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WASHINGTON – The ATF says it has broken up a plot to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 102 black people in a Tennessee murder spree.

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Kilpatrick was driving her blue van in Pensacola on April 19, 2004, with the slogans "Remember the Children of Waco" and "Boo ATF" written on some of the windows when she was pulled over by police for questioning by the ATF.

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"He was intending to do harm to a great number of people," the AJC quoted Scott Sweetow, assistant special agent in charge with the Atlanta field division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, as saying.

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Federal agents raided a Blackwater armory Tuesday and seized 34 automatic rifles that the company purchased and stored on behalf of a local law enforcement agency, the Associated Press reports.

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Civil War Cannonball (9-inch, 75-pound naval shell) kills a Virginia civil war relic collector, as he was restoring the old relic.

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