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Obama meets with relatives of Newtown victims
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden met Thursday with relatives of the victims of the Connecticut school shooting, who were visiting Washington on the eve of the six-month anniversary of the tragedy to push anew for gun control. Legislation to expand background checks for gun buyers failed in ...
Bloomberg pressures donors over gun control votes
Six months after the Newtown school shooting, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is stepping up his gun control campaign by asking donors not to support Democratic senators who opposed a bill to expand background checks on gun buyers, while a mayors' group he co-founded is embarking on a national bus ...
NRA goes after Sen. Manchin over guns compromise
After years of showering U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin with stellar ratings and campaign endorsements, the National Rifle Association targeted the West Virginia Democrat with a TV ad launched Wednesday over his continuing push for broader gun buyer background checks. The new ad urges viewers to phone Manchin's office and tell ...
NRA answers Bloomberg with Pryor radio ad
After enduring attacks by some fellow Democrats for voting against background checks for gun purchases, U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor got support Wednesday as the National Rifle Association started running a radio ad endorsing his vote. The Arkansas senator was targeted last month in a 30-second television ad by Mayors Against ...
Obama's ATF nominee gets Senate hearing
It was remarkable enough that President Barack Obama's choice to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives got a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. Only one other nominee to lead the ATF has had a hearing, and none has been confirmed. But then hardly any ...
Gun control advocates mark 6 months since shooting
Six months after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, some of the victims' families are heading to Capitol Hill to remind lawmakers they are painfully waiting for action, while some of the president's allies are asking him to do more without any new prospects of legislation to toughen gun laws. ...
Zimmerman's attorney walks tight line in defense
George Zimmerman's lead attorney will be walking a fine line as he tries to convince jurors that his client didn't murder Trayvon Martin: He needs to show why Zimmerman felt threatened by the African-American teenager while avoiding the appearance that either he or his client is racist. Because there is ...
New NRA-backed Kansas law seeks to limit lobbying
Fresh off a series of legislative victories across the country, the National Rifle Association has launched a new effort starting in gun-friendly Kansas seeking to clamp down on the use of government money to lobby on gun-control issues. While it's not clear how the law would be enforced considering it ...
NYC police: Notes to Obama, mayor had gun threats
A suspicious letter mailed to the White House and intercepted this week was similar to two threatening, poison-laced letters on the gun law debate sent to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, one of the nation's most potent gun-control advocates, officials said Thursday. Yet another letter became known publicly on Thursday, ...
Supporters of a gun petition did not get the support they hoped
The door to Marietta Congressman Phil Gingrey’s office, just off the town square, creaked open and more than a dozen people shuffled into the reception area. They came Thursday to demand Gingrey back a bipartisan House measure that would require more and tougher background checks of anyone who tries to ...
A sampling of editorials from around New York
The Syracuse Post-Standard calling for Sheldon Silver to step aside or be replaced as Assembly speaker in wake of scandals. May 23 For state leaders who talk a lot about cleaning up secretive and self-serving politics in Albany, now is the time to act. And the place to start is ...
South Florida is a top haven for illegal trade
Surrounded by young mothers with strollers and students staring into their laptops, South Florida businessman Junaid Peerani sat down with an undercover agent at a Starbucks near Fort Lauderdale and asked for help buying navigation systems used for steering planes, ships and missiles. Peerani told the federal agent last year ...
Police impersonator arrested with 80 guns
He was convicted ten years ago of impersonating a police officer. Now a Douglasville man is back in jail, charged with stealing an arsenal of weapons. 31 year old Shaun Dee Pruitt is accused of breaking into a Douglas County home and making off with the 100 guns. He's charged ...
Fairbanks experiencing ammunition shortage
It's common knowledge among frequent customers that Tuesdays are ammo days at Sportsman's Warehouse in Fairbanks. Ammunition shipments usually arrive on Tuesdays at the Johansen Expressway store. Popular calibers, such as .22 and .308, generally sell out in minutes despite a store-imposed limit of three small boxes or one large ...
EDITORIALS OF THE TIMES
c.2013 New York Times News Service DECEPTION ON GUN BACKGROUND CHECKS A strange thing happened after 45 senators killed a bill to expand background checks for gun buyers five weeks ago: Many of those same senators suddenly discovered a profound affection for background checks. They had been for them all ...
Resort: Gun rights group can’t bring guns to annual convention
A Georgia gun rights group said it is looking for a new place to hold its annual convention after a popular Georgia resort changed its deal. Georgiacarry.org said just before it finalized the deal to hold its annual convention at Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain, Ga., the resort called and ...
Gwinnett Police kill home invasion suspect
A home invasion suspect is shot dead by a Gwinnett County police officer at the Woodland Ridge Apartments on Indian Trail Road Monday morning. Police say 24-year-old Eric Andrews of Atlanta had broken in an apartment where two children ages 11 and 13 were home alone waiting for the school ...
Study: Georgia ranks 10th worst in gun crime
Georgia ranks 10th worst in the nation when it comes to a new study on gun crime. The Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank with close ties to the White House, has ranked the fifty states on gun violence in a study just out. “Georgia was the tenth ...
Home invader shot by Loganville mom gets 10 years
The 32-year-old home invader who was pepped with bullets by a pistol-packing mother in Loganville was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison for his trouble. Paul Ali Slater, 32, barley survived the five gun shots he took from the 37-year-old woman. Tuesday he pleaded guilty to burglary charges ...
Ethics, lottery winners in legislature
One of the final bills to pass this year’s legislative session was ethics reform. The bill includes caps of $75 on the amount lobbyists can spend on state and locally elected officials and requires paid lobbyists and those who are reimbursed more than $250 to register. Speaker David Ralston, who ...
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