Swansong for big guns
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ATLANTA -- The big guns are all lined up for one last PGA Tour cash-grab, but it&#39;s tough even for the best golfers in the world to keep their eyes on the prize.
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Abdi Nur already had a hand gun. But to protect his wife and three children in Mogadishu, he has just had to buy an AK-47. And as if that wasn't bad enough, prices have just doubled, because everyone else wants one too.
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A laser designed for military use is close to hitting a power threshold thought necessary to turn it into a battlefield weapon.
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Facts and figures on the National Rifle Association.
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New Jersey is looking to become the second state to outlaw a powerful gun that critics say can be used by terrorists to shoot down an airliner
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Can you get away with defying public opinion? Sometimes. Sometimes you can even get the political Play of the Week. President Bush says he will sign a bill renewing the assault weapons ban if Congress passes it.
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They call it the Hundred Years' War. Not because it involves brutish medieval unpleasantries like the battle axe. It involves only the sharp edge of cutting words between a Washington area company and a New York investor in a war of Wall Street that merely feels like it has lasted a century.
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Plans are under way for a scheme aimed at encouraging people to inform on others who have a gun illegally.
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It is not likely a homeowner would buy an expensive gun to defend his home if the weapon failed to hit its target three out of every eight times it was fired.
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Last night&#39;s sunset of a federal ban on some 19 military-style assault weapons is yet another sad commentary on the political powerlock that the National Rifle Association has over members of Congress.
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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has come up with a relatively cowardly list, a list that -- in a year brimming to the top with violent masterpieces -- is too scared to pick up the gun.
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They buy themselves enough time and size to play with the big boys. For now. In the world of big-time telecom, the Baby Bells have been hogging the spotlight as they bulk up to compete against an onslaught
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TAIPEI, Taiwan -- A proposed $18.2 billion purchase of U.S. weapons by Taiwan has bogged down in the island's hard-fought electoral politics despite repeated warnings from the Bush administration that the new arms are imperative to bolster defenses against China.
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It was supposed to be the end of one-sided matches in the Champions Trophy. The final round of group games in the &#39;mini World Cup&#39; was when the big guns faced each other in a shoot-out for a semi-final berth.
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While I am not against gun ownership, Richard LaFontaine's letter (Readers' Forum, Feb. 20) displays the same kind of wishful, naive thinking he criticizes. Proponents of gun rights generally take a very optimistic view of people who face stressful, traumatic situations.
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With its battle to kill the  decade-long U.S. ban on assault weapons won, the National Rifle  Association is now setting its sights on the Nov. 2  presidential and congressional elections.
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LOS ANGELES  - The request: Someone in the U.S. wanted to ship guns to Abu Dhabi. True, they were Hollywood prop guns, but with Abu Dhabi smack dab in the middle of the Middle East, such a request might raise some eyebrows.