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This Cop Is Getting $2,500 a Month Because Killing an Unarmed Man in a Hotel Hallway Gave Him PTSD
Phillip Brailsford was acquitted of murder for a shooting captured on video that subsequently drew national outrage. Now he's getting paid for it.
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Scientists Showed How More Guns Led To More Violent Crime
A Supreme Court case may soon create a constitutional right to freely carry a gun everywhere, but that would be a dangerous mistake to make, suggests a new study of violent crimes.
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'Kids learn to survive a guy with a gun': Aussie-made video shocks the US
Fake blood, gunshots and barricades. Two Australian men were horrified by how American schools prepare children for a massacre. Now their ad is shaking up the country.
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3D-printed guns are back, and this time they are unstoppable
A decentralised network of gun-printing advocates is mobilising online, they're anonymously sharing blueprints, advice and building a community. There's no easy way they can be halted
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The Supreme Court’s Worst Decision of My Tenure
District of Columbia v. Heller recognized an individual right to possess a firearm under the Constitution. Here’s why the case was wrongly decided.
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Locking up guns could reduce teen and childhood firearm deaths by a third
Most US households with children do not safely store firearms in the way the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends: locked up and unloaded. If parents simply locked up all their guns, then up to a third of gun suicides and accidental deaths among children and teens could be avoided, researchers estimate in a new study.
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Cory Booker on gun violence reform: We need more than 'thoughts and prayers'
2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker says he's fed up with inaction on gun reform after mass shootings, calling the oft-repeated refrain of politicians who offer "thoughts and prayers" to victims "just bullsh**."
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How America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Engineering Mystery
The news spread around Huntsville, Ala., in the winter of 2014. Remington, the country’s oldest gun maker, had decided to expand from its historic home in upstate New York to a gigantic former Chrysler factory near the airport. Workers at the new plant, the company said, would earn a minimum average of $19.50 an hour assembling shotguns, pistols, hunting rifles and AR-15-style semiautomatics. The city’s mayor wrote in a newspaper column that he was thrilled that Remington’s quest for a new factory space had ended in Huntsville. He calculated the typical annual salary as $42,500.
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Weapons trade reveals a darker side to dark web
Debates over gun regulations make headlines across the world, but there’s an underground operation for weapons that has drawn very little attention – until now. Researchers from Michigan State University crept into the dark web to investigate how firearms are anonymously bought and sold around the world. “We know so little about the distribution of firearms sold on the dark web that it’s kind of a black hole, similar to illicit pharmaceuticals and narcotics: We know people buy them online, but we don’t know to what extent,” said Thomas Holt, MSU professor of criminal justice and co-author.
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Many older adults keep guns loaded, unlocked at home, survey says
Many older adults, including those who are mentally impaired, don't lock up their guns and ammo, University of Washington researchers report. Almost 39 percent of the more than 4,400 seniors they surveyed in Washington state said they had a firearm in their home. Nearly a quarter said they keep at least one gun loaded and unlocked. Fewer than a third said they keep all firearms locked up and unloaded.
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After No-Knock Raid Goes Horribly Wrong, Police Union Boss Steps Up To Threaten PD's Critics
Four Houston police officers were shot -- allegedly by now-dead suspects -- while serving a no-knock warrant on a Houston residence. The no-knock warrant was supposed to make everything safer for the officers, giving them a chance to get a jump on the...
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Glock 17 Concealed Carry Holsters
Glock 17 is the favored decision for guns. It is a dependable alternative in a sidearm and the best choice for military, police, and regular people the world over. We should discuss a few sorts of Glock 17 holsters that can use for transportation of Glock 17.
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Are credit card companies financing US mass shootings?
A 'New York Times' investigation found that credit cards were used to fund the majority of a decade's mass shootings. In some cases, the perpetrators used credit to buy weapons they could not otherwise have afforded.
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Bolsonaro loosens gun laws in Brazil, world murder capital
President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday signed a decree making it easier for many Brazilians to own firearms, the first of many expected changes by the nascent administration to overhaul gun laws in the nation that leads the world in total homicides. Bolsonaro signed the decree in a televised...
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Lax state gun laws linked to more child, teen gun deaths
States with strict gun laws have lower rates of gun deaths among children and teenagers, and laws to keep guns away from minors are linked with fewer gun suicides in this age group, a Stanford study found. Compared with U.S. states with the strictest gun control legislation, gun deaths among children and teenagers are twice as common in states with the most lax gun laws, a study from the Stanford University School of Medicine has found.
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3D-printed guns may be more dangerous to their users than targets
Manufacturing errors, undetected by inexpert consumers, may be more dangerous than other threats from 3D-printed guns.
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Gun-related Deaths Have Decreased Overall American Life Expectancy
In 2016, the last year for which the CDC provides numbers, 35,353 people died from gun injuries, the majority of them suicides. In other words, out of every 100,000 people living in the US that year, 12 were killed by a gun, compared to 11 in 2015 and 10 in 2014. “But mortality rates don’t show you how much of your life is lost,” says Bindu Kalesan, a Boston University assistant professor of community health sciences. “Who is dying young, and who is dying old?”
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Gun No. 6: The untold story of Britain’s deadliest illegal firearm
We track the journey of a single gun, used in 11 shootings in six years. By Ashitha Nagesh.
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A black security guard had just detained a suspected gunman — then he was shot by police
A police officer has shot and killed an armed security guard at a suburban Chicago bar, and now the guard's mother is suing police.
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Mother of Mass Shooting Victim: “I Don’t Want Prayers… I Want Gun Control”
Telemachus Orfanos was one of the dozen people killed Wednesday night at Borderline Bar & Grill in California at the hands of another mass shooter (who owned the gun legally). Orfanos was an Eagle Scout and enlisted in the Navy. He was also a survivor of another mass shooting: The one in Las Vegas last summer during the Route 91 Harvest music festival.
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