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Guns Are Now Required For Citizens Of Nelson, Georgia
Backers of a newly adopted ordinance requiring gun ownership in a small north Georgia town acknowledge they were largely seeking to make a point about gun rights.
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4-year-old grabs loaded gun and accidentally kills wife of sheriff’s deputy
Investigators say Daniel Fanning was showing his weapons to a relative in a bedroom of home when the toddler came in and picked up a gun off the bed.
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The Gun Lobby’s Dumbest Argument
Do we expect that anti-pollution laws will end all pollution? Of course not. And neither, argues Michael Tomasky, should we expect that gun laws will prevent all violence. This absurd argument shouldn’t be taken seriously.
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Why does America lose its head over 'terror' but ignore its daily gun deaths?
The marathon bombs triggered a reaction that is at odds with last week's inertia over arms control.
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How The NRA Impeded The Boston Bomber Investigation
The intense hunt for the Boston Marathon bombers illustrates another way that the National Rifle Association helps mass murderers — by delaying how quickly they can be identified.
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What if the Tsarnaevs Had Been the "Boston Shooters"
Here’s a little mental experiment. Imagine, for a moment, that the Tsarnaev brothers, instead of packing a couple of pressure cookers loaded with nails and explosives into their backpacks a week ago Monday, had stuffed inside their coats two assault rifles—Bushmaster AR-15s, say, of the type that Adam Lanza used in Newtown. What would have been different?
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This Is The World's First Entirely 3D-Printed Gun (Photos)
Eight months ago, Cody Wilson set out to create the world’s first entirely 3D-printable handgun. Now he has.
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Test-Firing The World's First Fully 3D-Printed Gun
“Alright. One…two…” Before “three” arrives, a shot reverberates across the overcast central Texas landscape. A tall, sandy blond engineer named John has just pulled a twenty-foot length of yellow string tied to a trigger, which has successfully fired the world’s first entirely 3D-printed gun for the very first time, rocketing a .380 caliber bullet into a berm of dirt and prairie brush.
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3 reasons Americans think the gun homicide rate is rising... when it isn't
Two new studies show a sharp drop in gun crime. Why is that hard for most of us to believe?
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Alabama’s Strip Clubs of Death
Most of the time, shootings in strip clubs are rare occurrences, the result of a drunk who’s thrown out of the club and comes back with a gun for revenge.
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A Gunmaker in Nigeria
Mmemme’s friends gave him his nickname, an affectionate, long-held one, which means “to boast”; they said he would show off incessantly as a boy, like a precocious rapper.
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A New 'Smart Rifle' Decides When To Shoot And Rarely Misses
A new rifle goes on sale on Wednesday, and it's not like any other. It uses lasers and computers to make shooters very accurate. A startup gun company in Texas developed the TrackingPoint rifle, which is so effective that some in the shooting community say it should not be sold to the public.
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I Built This AK-47. It's Legal and Totally Untraceable.
Forget 3-D printed guns. Inside a "build party" where anyone can make a rifle that no cop will ever know about.
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Gun, drug texts feature in new Trayvon Martin shooting evidence
Text messages, involving drug use and a gun, from Trayvon Martin's cell phone are among new details released Thursday by attorneys for the man who killed him.
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Officials: Stopping 3D-Printed Guns Could Be Impossible
In a leaked bullettin, the Department of Homeland Security states that it might be "impossible" to stop the spread of 3D printed guns.
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The NRA Is Wrong: The Myth of Illegal Guns
The NRA says gun control won't work because illegal guns are so easy to get. But as a convicted felon, I know Adam Lanza never could have gotten an illegal firearm.
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Santa Monica College Shooting Leaves 5 Dead Including Suspect
The suspect in a shooting spree that left four people dead in Santa Monica has been identified as John Zawahri. Authorities say he killed his father, Samir "Sam" Zawahri, and brother, Chris Zawahri, in a Santa Monica house before carjacking a woman and firing at a public bus on Friday.
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My Month With a Gun: Week One
My hands are shaking; my adrenaline is surging. No, it’s not from the latte I just inhaled or because this is the first time in two years I’ve been in a Starbucks since declaring a boycott on its open-carry gun policy.
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Odd Collection of Military-Themed Oil Paintings
"The 'Art of Innovation' project- The main idea was to present small arms with elegance and without aggression. Russia is the country of great history, where various cultures of many peoples interlace with each other in a remarkable manner. And our studio tries to intertwine Russian originality with European delicacy and Oriental Culture..."
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China's Last Gunslingers
Far from the hustle and bustle of China's exploding cities, residents of a village in Guizhou Province have been setting off explosions of their own. The village, Biasha is home to a population with a long history of gun ownership. Unlike in most of China, though, the men of Biasha still use the weapons. Though firearms have their roots in China—gunpowder was invented there—guns are tightly regulated and gun ownership by citizens is prohibited.
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