Judge strikes down Tennessee guns-in-bars law

Tennessee's new law allowing people with handgun permits to be armed in bars and restaurants that serve alcohol is unconstitutionally vague, a judge ruled on Friday.

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SC offering shoppers tax-free weekend on guns

South Carolina shoppers will get a second chance to buy tax-free guns.

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Venezuela destroys more than 30,000 firearms

Venezuelan authorities have destroyed more than 30,000 illegal firearms as part of an effort to combat soaring crime.

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Feds: Gun, cash seizures up at Mexican border

U.S. authorities on Tuesday reported a spike in seizures of guns and cash along the Mexican border since they began assigning more agents to stem the flow of southbound contraband.

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US-Mexico groups urges new US assault weapons ban

The United States should reinstate a Clinton-era ban on assault weapons to prevent such guns from reaching Mexican drug cartels, former officials from both countries said in a report released Tuesday.

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Ky. pastor who promoted guns in church quits

A Kentucky pastor who hosted a rally celebrating God and guns a few months ago has resigned his ministry to promote gun rights and church security.

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Pa. college reverses policy after free-speech flap

A Pittsburgh-area community college caught up in a free-speech dispute says it will no longer require students to get approval to pass out leaflets.

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ATF: Houston effort helps fight gun flow to Mexico

A four-month effort to stop the flow of firearms from the U.S. to Mexican drug cartels has helped law enforcement disrupt various gun trafficking rings and gain a better understanding of how these groups try to avoid detection, officials announced Thursday.

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Supreme Court takes a fresh look at handgun laws

The Supreme Court could ignite a vigorous new fight over state and local gun controls across the nation when it rules on a challenge to Chicago's handgun ban.

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Man carrying assault weapon attends Obama protest

About a dozen people carrying guns, including one with a military-style rifle, milled among protesters outside the convention center where President Barack Obama was giving a speech Monday — the latest incident in which protesters have openly displayed firearms near the president.

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Shoot at the pirates? West weighs arming ships

Challenging a global aversion to guns aboard ships, France has put troops on tuna boats in the Indian Ocean, and Belgium is offering military units to its merchant vessels off the Horn of Africa. Now, U.S. lawmakers are weighing similar action to fight piracy.

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Gun owners sue DC for right to carry weapons

The attorney who got the Supreme Court to overturn the District of Columbia's handgun ban is now challenging rules that prohibit gun owners from carrying their weapons outside their homes.

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Families, Va Tech survivors oppose US gun measure

Some survivors and families of Virginia Tech shooting victims are asking their U.S. senators to reject a proposed national standard for carrying concealed weapons.

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Ariz. lawmakers approve bill allowing guns in bars

The Arizona Senate has given final approval to a bill that would allow people with concealed weapons permits to carry a gun into a business that serves alcohol.

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Ky. pastor welcomes guns, their owners to church

For one day, at least, it was OK to pack heat in church.

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More than 800 gun buyers on terrorist watch list

More than 800 gun purchases were approved after background checks in the last five years even though the buyers' names were on the government's terrorist watch list, investigators said Monday.

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Crisis forces Bulgaria to smell the roses

In a field outside this quiet village, Rumen Rumenov tosses a huge plastic bag filled with pink rose blossoms over his shoulder and loads it on a horse cart.

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Report: US not doing enough against gun smuggling

Two federal agencies are being faulted for not coordinating their efforts against border gunrunners, a failure one lawmaker says made it easier for Mexican drug cartels to smuggle illegal weapons from the United States.

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Gun-loving pastor to his flock: Piece be with you

A Kentucky pastor is inviting his flock to bring guns to church to celebrate the Fourth of July and the Second Amendment.

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Pa. college denies it violated gun backer's rights

A Pittsburgh-area college says it barred a student from publicizing a pro-gun group because she didn't follow the proper channels.

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Govt: Guns barred from national parks until Feb.

Not so fast, gun owners. A new law allowing loaded guns in national parks and wildlife refuges will not take effect until next year, the Obama administration said Friday.

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Hamburgers, hot dogs, brats and guns at picnic

A picnic open to the public at a park in La Crosse County will offer free brats and hamburgers and an invitation to bring your gun. Organizer Hubert Hoffman said Sunday's picnic at Marvin Gardens Park in the Town of Onalaska celebrates a recent opinion from state Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen that citizens who openly carry firearms should not be cited for disorderly conduct.

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Roll Vote: Allowing guns in national parks measure

The 67-29 roll call by which the Senate on Tuesday approved an amendment that would allow people to carry loaded guns in national parks and wildlife refuges.

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Loaded guns allowed in national parks under bill

The Democratic-controlled Congress is moving to restore a Bush administration policy that allowed loaded guns in national parks.

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Brazil evangelicals target drug lords

It is the scene of an old-time revival, with Pastor Andre Assis laying hands on the young man and diving deep into a religious chant.

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"police have no duty or legal requirement' to protect us."

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There were five young men in all, waiting on a street corner in the Bronx on Monday — two on bicycles, two with guns, and all with a specific target in mind: a 19-year-old rival who was inside a bodega.

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Man blames his dog for causing wife's death

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I'm putting my money on the notion that there was at least one gay rights group that didn't cheer when President Obama signed the most recent "hate crimes" bill last week.

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The boy was at his home near Driggs, just west of the Idaho-Wyoming border, with his younger sisters last Wednesday when the bear showed up. He says he couldn't shoo the animal away, so he went and got a gun and shot it.

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Chicago Mayor Richard Daley has given new ammunition to gun rights advocates with his astonishing suggestion that the Fort Hood massacre was made possible because "America loves guns."

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The Folly of Universal Armament - Why More Guns Wouldn't Have Prevented Fort Hood

Jacob Sullum over at Reason Magazine has a new article up that rehashes most of the same worn out talking points that place the blame for mass shootings like those at Virginia Tech and Fort Hood at the feet of weapons bans and gun control advocates.

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When Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan started shooting up the Soldier Readiness Processing Center at Fort Hood, Pfc. Marquest Smith dove under a desk. A.P. reports that "he lay low for several minutes, waiting for the shooter to run out of ammunition and wishing he, too, had a gun."

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The family of an 8-year-old boy who fatally shot himself at a gun show in western Massachusetts say the Uzi submachine gun jammed twice before he lost control of the weapon and fired into his head. ...

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Once again Mayor Daley goes on an anti-gun rant. "Unfortunately, America loves Guns. We love guns to a point where that uh we see devastation on a daily basis. You don't blame a group."

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A push in Congress for broader gun rights is threatening to derail Amtrak and stall a transportation spending bill. Gun-rights advocates in Congress are pressing appropriators to keep a provision that would let Amtrak passengers check in handguns with their baggage.

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By now you will have heard of Major Nidal Malak Hasan, the US Army psychiatrist who shot 13 of his colleagues dead and wounded 31 inside the army's largest base, Fort Hood in Texas, last Thursday.

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Healthcare and Manifest Destiny - Guns, God and Gold

You could buy a lot of health care for $400,000 - we'll get back to that.

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More than health care, the economy, jobs, Afghanistan, Iraq, public malfeasance, private dishonesty, civil rights, disease or tainted food, mass murder is American's primary problem and most fundamental shame.

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Officials searched Friday for a gunman who opened fire in a downtown office building. At this time 2 people are dead with at least 8 other injured.

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Officers early Friday raided the apartment of a soldier suspected in the deadly shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, searching for clues as to what caused the military psychiatrist to allegedly gun down soldiers he had taken an oath to help, a police spokeswoman said.

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Shooting at Fort Hood: How Will it be Spun?

In our fragmented society where there are political points to be scored on anything -- even a senseless tragedy like the shooting at Fort Hood -- there is bound to be some massive spinning coming over the next few days.

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DARKER STILL... Is anyone listening. Things don't just happen!

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The right of Oregonians to use marijuana for medical reasons and also to obtain concealed handgun permits is being challenged by local sheriffs who say federal law prevents those people from packing heat.

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For myself, I'd have expected that a dataset to do what was reported would have included assaults with a firearm that either resulted in a shooting of the victim or did not result in the shooting of the victim, and do whatever "adjusting" magic was needed to control for dif …

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In the United States, the picture could hardly be more different. The American homicide rate has been higher than Europe's from the start, and higher at just about every stage since. It has also fluctuated, sometimes wildly.

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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 sign of their demand: empty ammunition shelves.

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"Florida's Preservation and Protection of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms in Motor Vehicles Act of 2008" isn't completely cut-and-dried. So don't put your pistol in your lunchpail until you know the rules.

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Christian Identity groups and Survivalists came together in Kansas City. Gun and knife shows are a tradition in the Midwest and South. This show welcomed survivalists, as well as a group called the Covenant the Sword and the Arm of the Lord (CSA).

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Footage leaked from "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" reveals that players of the upcoming video game can shoot innocent civilians in an airport in a realistic rendering of a terrorist attack.

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