Seattle Suspends Use of Controversial Gun
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At least one big-city police department has suspended use of pepper-spray pellet guns blamed for the death of a 21-year-old college student who was shot by police trying to break up a rowdy crowd of Red Sox fans last week.
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A company that makes substances used in some common medical tests has suspended operations at a nuclear pharmacy in Maryland as state and federal health officials investigate several cases of hepatitis C in the Baltimore area, authorities said Thursday.
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A 10-year-old ban on assault weapons  expired across the United States on Monday with a political  firefight but no apparent rush to rearm by gun fanciers.
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Despite widespread popular support, the federal law banning the sale of 19 kinds of semiautomatic assault weapons is almost certain to expire on Monday, the result
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Operations at the Warren Grove firing range were temporarily suspended Friday after an F-16 fighter jet with the District of Columbia Air National Guard accidentally fired about 25 training
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Iraq announced on Monday it had withdrawn the license of a U.S. security firm and would prosecute employees it said were involved in a Baghdad shooting in which 11 people were killed.
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Police said Friday they were suspending the use of a highly sensitive form of DNA testing criticized by a judge who acquitted the only person charged with murder in Northern Ireland's deadliest terrorist attack.
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Despite popular support, the federal law banning the sale of 19 kinds of semiautomatic assault weapons is almost certain to expire on Monday.
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The announcement by the Iraqi government today follows the banning of Blackwater USA, an American contractor, after a shooting that left eight Iraqis dead.
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WASHINGTON -- A ban on semiautomatic assault weapons will expire Monday, despite wide popular support and appeals from politicians, gun victims and law enforcement officials, including Seattle police Chief Gil Kerlikowske.
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A man with a rifle was arrested outside the U.S. Capitol on Friday but no shots were fired or injuries reported, police said.
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The District asked the Supreme Court yesterday to save the city's ban on handgun ownership, saying an appeals court's decision overturning the prohibition "drastically departs from the mainstream of American jurisprudence."
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PINE BUSH, N.Y. - A teen-age Civil War buff has been suspended from school and faces serious charges after his replica musket was found in his car trunk at school in the Orange County community of Pine Bush...
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The fog of war keeps getting thicker. The Iraqi government's decision to temporarily ban the security company Blackwater USA after a fatal shooting of civilians in Baghdad reveals a growing web of rules governing weapons-bearing private contractors but few signs U.S. agencies are aggressively enforcing them.
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The US military is ordered to suspend its compulsory anthrax vaccination for troops after a federal judge's ruling.
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CAPITOL HILL Despite a warning from the police chief in Washington DC about a &quot;tidal wave&quot; of weapons, the House has voted to lift a ban on handguns in the nation&#39;s capital.
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BOISE, Idaho - The expiration Monday of a 10-year federal ban on assault weapons means firearms like TEC-9s can now be legally bought - a development that has critics upset and gun owners pleased.    The 1994 ban, signed by President Clinton, outlawed 19 types of military-style assault weapons...