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Texas sheriff's official vehicle burglarized, 8 guns stolen
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KATY, Texas (AP) — Thieves have stolen eight guns from a Texas sheriff's official vehicle that was parked outside a Houston-area restaurant during lunch.
The Waller County Sheriff's Office says Sheriff Glenn Smith reported four department guns and four of his personal weapons were taken.
Smith says one of his law enforcement jackets was also stolen by thieves who broke into his county-issued pickup truck Saturday at a restaurant in Katy.
Submitters note: This is how criminals get guns. Not through so called private sales loopholes. |
MI: Semiautomatic pistols, AR-15 top seller at gun shop, dealer says
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Politics, mass shootings and terrorist attacks are some reasons that Genesee County officials and gun retailers say help cause spikes in gun sells and concealed weapon applications throughout the U.S.
Brian Wright, Williams Gun Sight Company operations manager says the most popular guns among buyers are semiautomatic pistols and AR-15 sporting rifles. |
The Year In Pathetic Gun “Buyback” Attempts
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For many big-city officials, there’s nothing quite like a good gun “buyback.” They get lots of publicity, and they look (to the uninformed, at least) as if they’re doing something tangible to cut down on violent crime and accidental gun deaths. Gun “buybacks” are voluntary and pleasantly evoke reward instead of punishment for compliance; there’s an air of benevolent paternalism about them that probably gives many a mayor or police chief a sense of pride. The problem, of course, is that they’re worthless. |
MI: Terrorism, mass shootings and talk of gun control boost firearms sales
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Officials say terrorist attacks and mass shootings in the U.S. create surges in gun sales and concealed weapon applications even if the events are far from Genesee County.
"It's a cycle," said Genesee County Clerk John Gleason. "Every time there is national news about a shooting, you see a spike. We really noticed it when Trayvon Martin was killed."
The county now averages about 500 applications per month.
Gleason also noted that the number of concealed weapons applications does mirror the number of gun sales.
"Compared to our Black Friday sales of that same weekend, we are up about 25 percent," said Brian Wright, Williams Gun Sight Company shooting sight operations manager. |
OH: Advocates Push for Changes in Gun Laws
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Life hasn't gotten easier for Sharon Brooks two years after gun violence ended her daughter's life.
Brooks said her heart still aches for her daughter Porshia, who was shot to death on Nov. 16, 2013 in Norwood. Police described the shooting of Porshia Brooks and her boyfriend Aron Martin, who survived the shooting, as a "robbery gone wrong." |
Gun Buyback Nets 325 Weapons in Central Mass.
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The annual Goods for Guns buyback program, in which people could trade in guns for supermarket gifts cards Saturday, netted 271 firearms and 54 pellet guns.
Organizers called the buyback "one of the most successful in the program's 14-year history." |
Chris Knox on his Father’s legacy: Neal Knox and ‘The Gun Rights War’
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During this year’s Gun Rights Policy Conference Chris Knox of the Arizona Firearms Coalition sat down with Examiner to discuss his father’s 2nd Amendment legacy. Knox published a book of his father’s writings called Neal Knox: The Gun Rights War. It’s a compilation of Neal Knox’s many writings over the years regarding firearms and the fight for 2nd Amendment rights.
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| No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion. — James Burgh, Political Disquisitions: Or, an Enquiry into Public Errors, Defects, and Abuses [London, 1774-1775]. |
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