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A Virginia teacher has been charged with 12 felony counts after allegedly pulling a blank firing gun on his students and firing several times. The Kingsport Time reports that Manuael Ernest Dillow, 60, was teaching a welding glass at an Abingdon, Virginia, vocational school when he reportedly “gathered” the attention of his students by [...] With the shooting death of Trayvon Martin by a neighborhood watch volunteer who was legally carrying a 9-mm handgun, patient the familiar wail has arisen from our cultural and media elite: America has too many guns! “Open carry” and “concealed carry” laws should be repealed. Florida’s “Stand-your-ground” law, link replicated in two dozen states, threatens [...] Assuming the weather is clear, a NASA experiment that will see five rockets launched in as many minutes will take place in Wednesday’s wee hours from a coastal site in Virginia. The countdown for the mission will begin at 7:00pm ET Tuesday, the space agency said, and the suborbital sounding rockets are set to take [...] When the makers of “Top Gun” were filming on board the USS Enterprise, they donated a set of black fuzzy dice to liven up the ship’s otherwise drab interior. A quarter-century later, the dice will still be dangling inside the tower of “the Big E” as the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier sets sail [...] The Brady bunch has released its annual scorecard rating states based on how strict their gun laws are. The scorecard is a very useful tool to help rights groups understand how their state compares to others on a liberty scale; more points = less liberty. Alaska, link Arizona and Utah have all achieved the coveted [...] Virginia Tech’s president Friday defended the university’s actions during a 2007 campus attack that left 33 people dead in the worst shooting spree in modern US history. Charles Steger took the stand Friday in a wrongful death trial commenced by parents of two of the shooting victims. The parents claim Virginia Tech officials might have [...] FBI Director Robert Mueller says terrorists may seek to train their own recruits or hire outsiders with an eye toward pursuing cyber attacks on the United States. The FBI director says terrorists have not used the Internet to launch a full-scale cyber attack, more about but that the bureau cannot underestimate the intent of terrorists [...] Gov. Bob McDonnell signed legislation Tuesday repealing Virginia’s one-per-month limit on handgun purchases, scrapping a law that he voted for nearly two decades ago as a member of the General Assembly. McDonnell’s decision to sign HB 940 was not a surprise. He said before the legislative session began that he supported repeal of the one-handgun-per-month [...] Localities would be prohibited from banning the firing of BB guns, paintball guns and other air-propelled weapons on private property under a bill approved Tuesday in the Senate. The Senate voted 25-14 in favor of Sen. Roscoe Reynolds’ bill, which would allow the use of pneumatic weapons when fired with “reasonable care” to prevent shots [...] A blog threatening members of Congress in the wake of the Tucson, Arizona shooting has prompted Arlington police to temporarily suspend the firearms license of an Arlington man. It was the headline “1 down and 534 to go” that caught the attention. “One” refers to Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head in [...] |
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