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Former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ), sale a victim of a mass shooting in 2011, story and her husband, Mark Kelly, testified before a Congressional panel on gun control in January. Kelly told the assembled members of Congress that modern weapons “Have turned every single corner of our society into places of carnage and gross human [...]
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Some Wyoming lawmakers are pushing to designate a powerful revolver made by a homegrown company as the official state firearm during the upcoming legislation session, which will start amid a heightened national debate on gun control. A bill pending for the session that begins in early January would name the Freedom Arms Model 83 revolver [...] A Marine who shot and killed a nude intruder in self defense will not be facing prosecution. The story behind this event, as reported by The Daily News, is an odd one. David Darling, a 22-year-old North Carolina resident, was running up and down a neighborhood street buck naked shouting, “This is the worst trip [...] Despite what many directors, see producers and actors in Hollywood have to say about guns, even they grudgingly have to recognize, that without firearms, there’d probably be no motion picture industry—or at least one limited to drawing room melodramas or polite comedies of manners. Right from the inception of the movie business, films and guns [...] After being injured on his second tour of duty in Afghanistan, remedy Lt. Augustine Kim spent the night in a D.C. jail for possessing unregistered guns. Mr. Kim was transporting his firearms from his parents’ house in New Jersey to South Carolina when he stopped at Walter Reed in Washington for a medical appointment in [...] On August 1-2, 1946, some Americans, brutalized by their county government, used armed force as a last resort to overturn it. These Americans wanted honest open elections. For years they had asked for state or federal election monitors to prevent vote fraud (forged ballots, secret ballot counts and intimidation by armed sheriff’s deputies) by the [...] Indiana soon will have an official state rifle to go along with the state tree, state stone and state flower. The Indiana House voted 78-2 on Tuesday to declare the Grouseland the state’s official rifle. It is one of only six remaining long rifles made by famed Hoosier gunsmith John Small in the early 1800s. [...] A historic Colt .45-caliber, semi-automatic pistol stolen more than 30 years ago from a Medal of Honor winner in South Carolina has been returned to its rightful owner. The gun and owner were reunited after a history buff in Medford, who bought the old handgun in an online auction last month, tracked down the retired [...] Virtually all states have a state bird, information pills a state flower and a state motto. But Utah soon could be among the first to have an official state firearm — the Browning model 1911 .45-caliber handgun, website like this designed by Utah gunmaker John Moses Browning. Rep. Carl Wimmer, R-Herriman — a former police [...] One of the most significant developments in firearms occurred about a hundred years ago and next year, gun owners and manufacturers will mark a century in the life of the .45 caliber semiautomatic pistol. The Model 1911, named for the year it was adopted by the Army as the official sidearm for U.S. forces, has [...] |
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