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Category: Guns

NRA: Still the official pimp for the multi-billion dollar gun industry

October 11, 2015 Madonna Gauding Corporations, Crime/Violence, Guns Leave a comment

We’re republishing this post from 2012, because it continues to have relevance to our ongoing debate about gun violence in America. After the recent mass shooting

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Guns around the world: Who owns them? Who has the most?

October 7, 2015 Occasional Planet Guns, International, Widgets: Guns One comment

Most of the world’s firearms are privately owned, says The Small Arms Survey. And which country has the most privately owned firearms per capita?

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How does your representative vote on gun control/gun rights?

October 7, 2015 Renee Shur Congress, Guns Leave a comment

After the most recent mass shooting–at Umpqua Community College in Oregon–President Obama urged Americans to look into where their Congressional representatives stand on gun-control

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I’ve lost my handgun virginity

May 21, 2015 Gloria Shur Bilchik Guns, Police 2 comments

Last week, I fired a handgun for the first time in my life. And for those of you hoping to learn that my experience

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I wanted the NRA “no-working-guns-at the convention” rumor to be true ..but it’s not

April 12, 2015 Gloria Shur Bilchik Guns Leave a comment

In advance of the National Rifle Association’s 2015 convention, the widely circulated rumor that the NRA was banning “operational” guns from the conventional hall

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On Fox, Ferguson is a media sport and a blood sport

March 11, 2015 Arthur Lieber Civil Rights, Courts, Crime/Violence, Ferguson, Guns, Legal issues/Law, Media, Violence Leave a comment

They had to do it; they just had to do it. They had to gloat about the findings of the Justice Department’s Report on

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Holder’s Justice Department Report offers credibility on Ferguson

March 9, 2015 Arthur Lieber Activism, Civil Rights, Courts, Crime/Violence, Ferguson, Guns, Police, Violence Leave a comment

From the moment that Michael Brown was gunned down by Officer Darren Wilson, it’s been virtually impossible to get credible and reliable information about

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Missouri State Auditor’s suicide: The gun

March 6, 2015 Gloria Shur Bilchik Guns, Media, Missouri region, Widgets: Guns Leave a comment

The sad details surrounding the suicide of Missouri State Auditor Tom Schweich continue to emerge. But something is missing in the reporting: the gun

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Ad says rifles are a girl’s best friend

January 23, 2015 Barbara Finch Guns, Media Leave a comment

Where is Don Draper when we need him? Draper, of course, is the iconic 1960s advertising executive who stars in the hit TV series,

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Guns here, guns there, in Missouri, everywhere a gun

September 16, 2014 Willy Kessler Guns, Missouri region, States One comment

“A Utah elementary school teacher who was carrying a concealed firearm at school was struck by fragments from a bullet and a porcelain toilet

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