Plan to encourage gun informers
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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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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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Members of the legislative black caucus met with a National Rifle Association lobbyist for nearly an hour Monday in an effort to find a solution to the gun violence that has Philadelphia in its throes.
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We made it back into the house last night. There were National Guardsmen at key checkpoints in Poway that were set up to protect neighborhoods from looters. These young men were carrying fully loaded M16s. For a quick second I thought I was in a war zone. That was incredibly intimidating for me.
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Home Secretary John Reid, who is trying to stop a wave of gun crime that has left four people dead in three weeks, said Thursday that the government may demand harsher sentences for gunmen who are also gang members.
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The organization will let fans help call the shots on an upcoming pay-per-view event.
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Report today on De Menezes shooting to recommend 15 changes to police tactics.
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With the federal ban on assault weapons set to expire next Monday, gun manufacturers are marketing military-style firearms and are ready to sell them as soon as Sept. 14, a consumer group said Tuesday.
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By Pam Kowalik, The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Feb.
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Get ready for the new personal-use stun gun.
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By Mark Harrington, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Sep.
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Manchester police are asking people who have illegal firearms to hand them in to stop them criminals using them.
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By The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Dec. 8--Was it a prank? The photo of three young men posed with guns "gangsta-style" that law enforcers included in a warrant to investigate a robbery.
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Increased activity among armed rightist groups coincides with reports of their links to top politicians.
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By Sarah Watson, The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.  Feb.
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Business & money: Local authority pension funds are to tackle arms companies about their activities.
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When criminals need guns, they have plenty of options in a country with nearly 100,000 licensed gun stores. But drug dealers and other crooks don't shop just anywhere. They have their favorites.