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The first smart gun with facial and fingerprint recognition is now for sale
In the 2012 film Skyfall, Q presents James Bond with a special handgun for his latest mission — a Walther PPK 9mm short — fitted with a sensor encoded to Bond's palm print so only he can fire it. It's a Hollywood version of a smart gun, a firearm that only an authorized user can unlock and fire. There's the movies, though, and there's the real world. And in the real world, the technological challenges as well as some political ones have meant that smart guns haven't become a reality.
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Gun Violence Is Actually Worse in Red States. It’s Not Even Close.
Listen to the southern right talk about violence in America and you’d think New York City was as dangerous as Bakhmut on Ukraine’s eastern front. In October, Florida’s Republican governor Ron DeSantis proclaimed crime in New York City was “out of control” and blamed it on George Soros. Another Sunshine State politico, former president Donald Trump, offered his native city up as a Democrat-run dystopia, one of those places “where the middle class used to flock to live the American dream are now war zones, literal war zones.” In May 2022, hours after 19 children were murdered at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, Republican Gov.
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World's first smart gun featuring fingerprint unlocking hits the market
It's something you might find inside James Bond's Aston Martin: A gun that only lets a specific person use it.
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Hilaria Baldwin: Alec Baldwin and I are ‘still standing’ after ‘Rust’ charge
Hilaria Baldwin proudly said she’s ”still standing” by husband Alec Baldwin’s side after he was formally charged with involuntary manslaughter over the fatal “Rust” shooting. The yoga instructor, 39, shared a throwback photo of her and her hubby, 64, cozying up for a pic together about “a yearish” after they met in February 2011 via Instagram on Saturday.
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DA drops gun enhancement charge against Alec Baldwin in 'Rust' shooting
The Santa Fe District Attorney's Office announced Monday it is dropping the gun enhancement charge -- a crime that would have carried a five-year sentence if convicted -- against Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of "Rust" in October 2021.
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Alec Baldwin charged with involuntary manslaughter following Rust tragedy
Alec Baldwin has been formally charged with involuntary manslaughter following the Rust movie shooting which resulted in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in 2021. Both Baldwin and the film’s armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed face two charges stemming from the incident on the film’s set in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The charges were formally filed on Tuesday by the Santa Fe District Attorney’s office.
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Canada bans new handgun sales in latest gun control action
Regulations prohibiting the sale, purchase or transfer of handguns within Canada took effect on Friday, as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the measure builds on earlier efforts banning handgun imports.
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Alec Baldwin Feared Trump Supporters Would Kill Him After ‘Rust’ Shooting: I Was ‘1000% Nervous’
Alec Baldwin revealed during a recent CNN interview (via TMZ) that he feared Trump supporters would kill him following the “Rust” shooting last October. Baldwin, the star and producer of the indie Western film, was holding the firearm when it fired during a take and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
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What are Japan’s gun laws? Abe killing shocks nation with few shootings.
The assassination of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe occurred in a nation with some of the world’s strictest gun laws.
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“Dark Day of America”, Celebrities Unite to Criticize Banning Abortion Rights Instead of Banning Guns in Public
On June 24th, the Supreme Court overturned 1973’s historic Roe v. Wade. CNN shared an opinion which stated that the decision is that the “most consequential Supreme Court decision in decades and will transform the landscape of women’s reproductive health in America.” From now on, abortion rights will be in the hands of states. At the moment, 21 states already have laws or amendments in place that ban the right for a woman to get an abortion.
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The Argument That Video Games Spur Mass Shootings Is Losing Steam
On the painful occasion of a mass shooting in the US, it has become customary for some politician or pundit to point an accusatory finger at video games. In late May, after two such attacks — in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, it was Texas Senator Ted Cruz. These tragedies, he said in a speech at a National Rifle Association convention, were a mirror of our culture, and specifically, where our culture is failing.
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Canada introduces law to freeze handgun sales, ban look-alike toys
Canada's government introduced legislation Monday to implement a "national freeze" on the sale and purchase of handguns as part of a gun control package that would also limit magazine capacities and ban some toys that look like guns.
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Canada's Trudeau announces plan for national freeze on handguns
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday his government was introducing new legislation to implement a "national freeze" on handgun ownership and prevent people from buying and selling handguns anywhere in the country.
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Improving Gun Policy Science
The Gun Policy in America project consistently found inadequate evidence for the likely effects of different gun policies on a wide range of outcomes. This does not mean that the policies have no effects, but instead reflects the relatively minimal investment that has been made to better understand these effects. We recommend ways to improve this body of research.
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Beyond the official clichés: The Texas school shooting reveals the advanced sickness of American society
The mass shooting of 19 children and two teachers, and the wounding of 17 more people, at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday was a genuinely horrific event. The students killed were 9, 10 and 11 years old, in the second, third and fourth grades. The adults killed, both women, were fourth-grade teachers. The perpetrator of the crime barricaded himself inside a classroom and opened fire with a lightweight semi-automatic rifle that he had obtained a day after his 18th birthday, one week earlier.
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Tennessee company hopes new gun-detection technology can be integrated into schools
New technology created in Middle Tennessee is designed to contain threats at schools, including keeping deadly weapons out of school buildings.
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3-year-old boy accidentally shoots, kills mom in Illinois parking lot | hard and smart
A 3-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his mother after finding a gun in the backseat of the family’s car in Illinois, a report said.The horrific tragedy unfolded after Dejah Bennet and her boyfriend arrived with her son to a supermarket in the Chicago suburb of Dolton, WLS reported, citing police.
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Alec Baldwin may not have pulled trigger in deadly shooting on ‘Rust’ set: DA
Alec Baldwin may have fired the shot that killed “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins without pulling the gun’s trigger, a New Mexico prosecutor says. Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies told Vanity Fair she had watched Alec Baldwin’s bombshell interview with ABC in December and was drawn to the actor’s claim that he did not pull the trigger.
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Gun violence in Oakland has become a “pandemic within the pandemic.” Here’s what’s going on
On Nov. 28, Oakland recorded its 118th homicide this year — a 22% increase over the same period last year, and the second year of a shocking reversal to a near-decade’s worth of declines to the city’s murder rate. With a month still left in the year, Oakland’s death toll from homicide has already eclipsed every year since 2012 (though it’s still well below the highs of the 1990s).
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Study: Massachusetts Gun-Control Legislation Has Had No Effect on Violent Crime
A new SPA study examined the impact changes to background checks and licensing policies has made on different types of violent crime in Massachusetts.
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