More Arizonans were killed in firearms-related incidents in 2009 than in motor vehicle crashes, a new study said. While 809 people died in vehicle crashes, there were 856 gun deaths, a state-by-state analysis showed. A local gun-rights activist dismissed the call for more gun control: “You want them to be dangerous or they’re no damn good.”... Read more»
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South of the border, war is raging with guns mostly supplied by merchants in the United States. Mexico has estimated that almost 50,000 people have been killed since 2006, a toll that has made its top officials irate about the persistent flow of weapons south.... Read more»2
I’m a 22-year-old woman who has never touched a gun in her life, but obtaining a concealed weapons permit in Arizona took me little more than a lunch break and $100.... Read more»12
Smart v. Stupid: Ted Nugent sounds crazy—until you understand who he’s working for. He has a very important reason to get himself in the news; he’s launching his own line of Ted Nugent brand ammunition.... Read more»1
A national firearms trade association that boasts more than 7,000 members is helping finance a lawsuit in which a Texas gun dealer is challenging a federal reporting requirement for the sale of long rifles.... Read more»
I have been a gun owner for all my adult life, and am fully supportive of the right to own a gun. However, having faculty, staff or students bringing weapons into classrooms and other campus activities will do nothing to make our campus safer.... Read more»2
Operation Fast and Furious was the fourth “gun–walking” investigation run by the ATF in the Phoenix area, according to a congressional report released Tuesday. The four operations began in 2006 and let roughly 2,800 firearms walk into the hands of drug cartels and other criminals.... Read more»
Some Jan. 8 shooting victims and witnesses appear in a video by a national gun control group released Wednesday. Retired Col. Bill Badger, Ken Dorushka, Randy Gardner, Mavy Stoddard, Roger and Faith Salzgeber, and nurse Nancy Bowman lent their voices to a 3-minute video by Mayors Against Illegal Guns.... Read more»
U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa has launched a website documenting the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s investigation into Operation Fast and Furious.... Read more»2
Mexican marines broke open a ship container in Michoacán and uncovered a whopping total of 900 firearms that included 9 mm pistols and shot guns — neither type of which is commonly used by drug cartels hitmen.... Read more»1
The U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee plans to subpoena Attorney General Eric Holder this week as part of its probe into Operation Fast and Furious, a plan to let thousands of guns sold in the U.S. get into the hands of Mexican drug cartels.... Read more»
A new federal reporting requirement for firearms dealers in four border states, including Texas, intended to curb the flow of weapons into Mexico has prompted a veteran San Antonio gun dealer to file suit against the federal government.... Read more»
A federally licensed firearms dealer was indicted Wednesday on nine counts relating to making fully automatic weapons and straw purchases, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.... Read more»1
Arizona-area supervisors for the ATF acknowledged in a sometimes emotional five-hour congressional hearing Tuesday that “we made mistakes” in Operation Fast and Furious, but defended the intent of allowing some illicit gun buyers to go unmolested in an effort to uncover larger networks that armed Mexican cartels.... Read more»
The House and Senate joint committee investigating the so-called Fast and Furious gun operation along the Mexican border released a joint report Tuesday with the damning conclusion that “ATF allowed guns to walk.”... Read more»
An American woman attempting to cross into Mexico with two children was arrested Wednesday after U.S. Customs and Border Protection discovered she was carrying ammunition and high-caliber magazine cartridges concealed in a duffel bag, according to the agency.... Read more»
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